QNL Heritage Manuscript HC.MS.02208: Arabic Verb Conjugation Treatise

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.02208 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'جملة من تصريف الأفعال مضبوطة جارية مجرى المدخل في الكتب المبسوطة', which translates to 'A Compendium of Verb Conjugations Regulated and Following the Method of Entry in Simplified Books'. The 1.8 GB dataset is released under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models for classical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze historical Arabic grammatical structures and verb conjugation patterns described in the manuscript.
• Study the paleography and scribal practices of Arabic manuscripts from the QNL Heritage Collection.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain dedication.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, an authoritative institution.

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.02208).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 09:27:53; freshness should be verified.