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Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.2017.0017 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is a 1393 commentary on 'Hikmat al-Ayn' authored by Hakim Shah Muhammad ibn Mubarak around 1340. The 3.6 GB dataset was last updated on June 2, 2026, and is shared under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Conduct textual analysis of 14th-century Islamic philosophical commentary based on the digitized content.
• Perform digital preservation and restoration studies using the high-resolution master copy.
• Analyze the structure and calligraphy of historical manuscripts from the QNL Heritage Collection.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, providing authoritative provenance.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
• File size of 3.6 GB suggests a detailed, high-quality scan.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation and sample data are unavailable, requiring manual inspection after download.
• The description metadata is limited to basic catalog information; detailed manuscript metadata must be sourced externally.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for some quantitative tasks.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.2017.0017.

Collection Method

High-resolution digital scanning of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript dated 1393, commenting on a work by an author active around 1340.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 07:32:37; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely associated with the Islamic world, specific origin not stated in provided metadata.