Al-Qalasadi's Commentary on Inheritance Mathematics, 15th Century Manuscript

A 1.8 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.2016.0003 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is a 15th-century commentary on the essential calculations for dividing inheritances according to Islamic law, authored by Ali ibn Muhammad al-Qalasadi. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-31.

Use Cases

• Digitally preserving and studying historical manuscripts based on the high-resolution master copy.
• Analyzing the mathematical principles of inheritance law based on the described content.
• Training optical character recognition models on historical Arabic script based on the digitized manuscript pages.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Manuscript is from a known heritage collection (QNL) with a clear catalog record.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 license for broad reuse.

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 pages or images within the 1.8 GB archive is unknown.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.2016.0003).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript dated 1714 (Hijri year), commentary authored by al-Qalasadi (1412/1413-1486/1487).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 08:17:30; freshness should be verified.