Three Treatises on the Eye: A 9th-Century Arabic Medical Manuscript

Qatar National Library provides a 1.0 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.2017.0026 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript, titled 'Three Treatises on the Eye,' is attributed to the 9th-century scholar Hunayn ibn Ishaq. The dataset was last updated on June 4, 2026.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models based on high-resolution images of historical Arabic script.
• Analyze the structure and content of classical medical texts based on the manuscript's described subject matter.
• Perform digital preservation analysis based on the high-resolution master copy format.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.
• Direct links to the full catalog record and digitized manuscript are provided for verification.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection

Collection Method

Digitization of physical manuscript HC.MS.2017.0026.

Time Range

Manuscript attributed to Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809?-873).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 11:07:32; freshness should be verified.