Three Medical Manuscripts by Al-Razi, Digitized from Qatar National Library

Qatar National Library provides a 1.6 GB high-resolution digital copy of a historical manuscript, HC.MS.2021.0003, from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is a collection of three books by the physician and philosopher Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (c. 865-925). The dataset was last updated on May 3, 2026, and is shared under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution page images.
• Textual analysis of classical medical knowledge based on the transcribed works of Al-Razi.
• Digital preservation and study of manuscript codicology based on the high-resolution scans.
• Linguistic analysis of historical Arabic scientific terminology based on the manuscript's text.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library's Heritage Collection, providing institutional provenance.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.2021.0003).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript dated 1789, containing works by Al-Razi (c. 865-925).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-03 07:39:46; freshness should be verified.