Sharh Qasidat Al-Munqah: High-Resolution Digital Manuscript Copy

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00754 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Sharh Qasidat Al-Munqah' and is authored by Ibn Harun, Abu Bakr Shihab al-Din Ahmad. The dataset is a 443.7 MB ZIP file published under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Digitally preserve and archive a historical Arabic manuscript based on the high-resolution master copy.
• Analyze the calligraphy and physical layout of the manuscript based on the digitized images.
• Study the commentary on the poem 'Al-Munqah' based on the textual content described in the manuscript.
• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models for classical Arabic script based on the high-resolution scans.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Published under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• File size of 443.7 MB suggests detailed image quality.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00754.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 05:54:45; freshness should be verified.