Two Connected Quranic Fragments: High-Resolution Digitization from Qatar National Library

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.2016.0044 from its Heritage Collection. The dataset is a 50.0 MB ZIP file containing digitized images of two connected Quranic fragments. It was last updated on 2026-05-19 and is released under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train or evaluate image segmentation models based on the high-resolution scans of connected manuscript fragments.
• Conduct paleographic analysis of Quranic script based on the digitized manuscript pages.
• Develop digital preservation workflows based on the high-resolution master copy format.
• Study the material characteristics of historical manuscripts based on the detailed imagery.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy provides detailed visual data.
• Direct provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.2016.0044).

Collection Method

High-resolution digital scanning of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 11:09:17; freshness should be verified.