Ahwal al-Qimah: 14th-Century Arabic Manuscript from Qatar National Library
by Qatar National Library·Updated 4d ago
479.7 MB1files
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Description
Qatar National Library provides a 479.7 MB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00230, titled 'Ahwal al-Qimah'. The manuscript is authored by Zayn al-Din 'Umar ibn al-Muzaffar al-Shafi'i, known as Ibn al-Wardi, who died in 1349. The dataset was last updated on June 3, 2026, and is available under a CC0 1.0 license.
Use Cases
Train optical character recognition (OCR) models for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
Conduct textual analysis of 14th-century Islamic scholarly works based on the manuscript's content.
Develop image segmentation models to separate text, marginalia, and decorations in digitized heritage documents.
Study the paleography and calligraphic styles of Arabic manuscripts from the specified period.
Strengths
High-resolution digital master copy of a specific manuscript (HC.MS.00230).
Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
File size of 479.7 MB suggests detailed image data.
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.
The specific number of images or pages within the 479.7 MB ZIP file is unknown.
Provenance
Source
Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
Collection Method
Digitization of a physical manuscript.
Time Range
Manuscript authored by a scholar who died in 1349; digitization date is unknown.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-06-03 10:48:37; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Likely associated with Qatar or the broader Arab/Islamic world, but specific origin is not stated.
The primary file is a 479.7 MB ZIP archive; users will need tools to extract and view the contained image files.