Quran Manuscript: Five Folios from the QNL Heritage Collection

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.03129 from its Heritage Collection. The dataset is a 195.8 MB ZIP file containing five folios from the Quran. It was last updated on May 31, 2026, and is published under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train or evaluate OCR models based on high-resolution images of historical Arabic calligraphy.
• Conduct paleographic analysis of Quranic manuscripts based on the visual features of the folios.
• Develop image processing techniques for cultural heritage digitization based on the high-resolution master copy.
• Study the layout and ornamentation of Quranic manuscripts from the described heritage collection.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library (QNL) Heritage Collection, a known institution.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.

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 (manuscript HC.MS.03129).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript to create a high-resolution master copy.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 09:18:35; freshness should be verified.