Manuscript of a Commentary on the Poem of Imru' al-Qays from the QNL Heritage Collection

A 684.0 MB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00756, authored by Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tusi and provided by Qatar National Library. The manuscript is a commentary on the poem of the pre-Islamic Arab poet Imru' al-Qays. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06-02.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models based on high-resolution images of historical Arabic script.
• Analyze classical Arabic poetry and its scholarly commentaries based on the manuscript's textual content.
• Study the structure and paleography of historical manuscripts based on the digitized page images.
• Develop machine learning models for cultural heritage preservation based on the digitized artifact.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy of a specific manuscript (HC.MS.00756).
• Provided under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain dedication license.
• Direct links to the full catalog record and digitized repository are included in the description.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 10:49:03; freshness should be verified.