QNL Manuscript HC.MS.00289: A Treatise on Remembrance (Dhikr)

Qatar National Library provides a 498.1 MB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00289 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Risālah fī al-Dhikr' (A Treatise on Remembrance). The dataset was last updated on June 3, 2026, and is shared under a CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.

Use Cases

• Digitally preserve and archive a historical manuscript based on the high-resolution master copy.
• Conduct paleographic or codicological analysis based on the manuscript's visual features.
• Perform optical character recognition (OCR) or text mining on the digitized content of the treatise.
• Study the content and context of Islamic spiritual practices (Dhikr) based on the manuscript's described subject.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy ensures detail for scholarly examination.
• Explicit public domain dedication (CC0 1.0) allows for unrestricted reuse.
• Direct links to the full catalog record and digital repository are provided for verification.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative tasks.
• The description metadata is limited to provenance and access links; data quality requires manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 11:30:29; freshness should be verified.