Al-Asbab wa al-Alamat: 1839 Manuscript from Qatar National Library

A 17.0 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00020 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Al-Asbab wa al-Alamat' and is attributed to Nafis bin Awad, dating from approximately 1449. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06-04 and is provided by Qatar National Library under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition models based on high-resolution images of historical Arabic script.
• Analyze the linguistic and stylistic features of 15th-century Arabic scientific or religious texts.
• Conduct paleographic studies based on the manuscript's handwriting and calligraphic style.
• Create digital scholarly editions of historical manuscripts based on the digitized master copy.

Strengths

• 17.0 GB high-resolution master copy suggests detailed image quality suitable for analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, indicating institutional provenance.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 license for maximum reuse.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00020.

Collection Method

High-resolution digital scanning of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript dated approximately 1449, digitized copy published in 1839.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 11:03:17; freshness should be verified.