QNL Manuscript HC.MS.00052: Digital Master Copy of the Tale of Zayn al-Malah

A 1.8 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00052 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript contains the Arabic literary work 'Durrat al-Faddah fi Qissat Zayn al-Malah'. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06-04 and is provided under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training based on high-resolution images of Arabic script.
• Textual analysis of classical Arabic literature based on the manuscript's content.
• Digital preservation research based on the high-resolution master copy methodology.
• Historical linguistic studies based on the language and style of the manuscript.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• 1.8 GB file size indicates substantial image detail.
• Directly sourced 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.
• 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 (manuscript HC.MS.00052).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 08:52:44.