Two Pages of the Quran in Kufic Script from the QNL Heritage Collection

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.2017.0008. The dataset is a 40.0 MB ZIP file containing two pages of the Quran written in Kufic script. It was last updated on 2026-06-02 and is released under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train or evaluate optical character recognition (OCR) models for historical Arabic scripts based on the high-resolution images.
• Analyze the stylistic features and evolution of Kufic calligraphy based on the manuscript pages.
• Develop image processing techniques for the restoration and enhancement of cultural heritage artifacts based on the digital master copy.

Strengths

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

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.2017.0008).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 06:26:13; freshness should be verified.