Quran Manuscript HC.MS.01821 from Qatar National Library Heritage Collection

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.01821 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The 8.6 GB dataset was published by Qatar National Library and last updated on 2026-05-17. It is available under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze calligraphic styles and manuscript illumination based on the visual features of the digitized pages.
• Conduct textual analysis of the Quranic text based on the digitized manuscript content.
• Develop image processing techniques for historical document restoration based on the high-resolution scans.

Strengths

• 8.6 GB file size suggests high-resolution, detailed imagery.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, indicating institutional provenance.
• Available under a permissive CC0 1.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and specific column-level documentation are absent; data structure must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.01821.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 10:35:15.