Kitab Al-Filaha: A High-Resolution Digital Manuscript On Agriculture

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.02487 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Kitab Al-Filaha' and authored by Ibn Bassal, Abdullah Muhammad bin Ibrahim. The dataset is a 7.4 GB ZIP file published under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for historical Arabic script based on the manuscript images.
• Historical analysis of agricultural practices and knowledge in the medieval Islamic world based on the manuscript's content.
• Digital preservation and study of cultural heritage materials from the Qatari collection.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed study.
• 7.4 GB file size suggests high-fidelity image capture.
• Published 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.
• Data may reflect geographic/temporal/source bias inherent to a single historical manuscript.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.02487.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 08:37:33; freshness should be verified.