Badi' al-Nizam al-Jami' li al-Ahkam: A 13th-Century Islamic Law Manuscript

Qatar National Library provides a 1.6 GB high-resolution digital copy of manuscript HC.MS.00773 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Badi' al-Nizam al-Jami' li al-Ahkam, Part Two' and was authored by Ibn al-Sa'ati, Ahmad ibn 'Ali (1254-1294/5). The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-31 and is shared under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models for classical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze the structure and content of 13th-century Islamic legal texts based on the manuscript's described subject.
• Conduct digital humanities research on manuscript preservation and metadata standards based on the provided catalog links.

Strengths

• The dataset is a high-resolution digital master copy, suggesting preservation of fine detail.
• The manuscript is clearly attributed to a specific author and date range (1254-1294/5).
• Provenance is documented with direct links to the Qatar National Library catalog and digital repository.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative tasks.
• The description metadata is limited to bibliographic information; data quality requires manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (Manuscript HC.MS.00773).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript authored circa 1254-1294/5 CE.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 08:07:50; freshness should be verified.