QNL Manuscript on Equestrianism and Veterinary Medicine: A High-Resolution Digital Copy

Qatar National Library provides a 1.6 GB high-resolution digital master copy of the manuscript 'ذيل كتاب في الفروسية والبيطرة على التمام والكمال' (Supplement to the Book on Horsemanship and Veterinary Medicine for Completion and Perfection). The dataset was last updated on June 2, 2026, and is shared under a CC0 1.0 license. It originates from the QNL Heritage Collection as manuscript HC.MS.2017.0018.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Historical analysis of equestrian and veterinary practices from the manuscript's textual content.
• Digital preservation and archival study of heritage materials from the QNL collection.
• Multimodal analysis combining visual page layout with transcribed text from the manuscript.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy, suggesting detailed visual fidelity for analysis.
• Dataset size of 1.6 GB indicates a substantial volume of image or document data.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection with a specific manuscript identifier (HC.MS.2017.0018).
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain ML tasks.
• The description metadata is limited to the manuscript's origin and format; detailed content analysis requires manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.2017.0018.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical historical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 07:35:31; freshness should be verified.