QNL Heritage Manuscript HC.MS.02406: A 15th-Century Arabic Prayer Text

Qatar National Library provides a 6.9 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.02406 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Dala'il al-Khayrat wa Shawariq al-Anwar fi Dhikr al-Salat 'ala al-Nabi al-Mukhtar' by Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli (1404-1465). The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-04 and is shared under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for classical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Digital preservation and analysis of 15th-century Islamic prayer texts.
• Studying the calligraphic and material features of historical manuscripts.
• Building corpora for natural language processing on classical religious Arabic.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
• Large file size (6.9 GB) suggests significant image detail.

Limitations

• The dataset description lacks column-level documentation; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and specific internal structure are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data may reflect the specific geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single manuscript source.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript authored between 1404-1465.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 06:29:51; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely associated with the Islamic world; specific origin unknown from input.