Quran Manuscript Part 10: High-Resolution Digital Copy from Qatar National Library

Qatar National Library provides a 2.7 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.01713 from its Heritage Collection. The dataset contains the tenth part (Juz' 10) of the Quran. It was last updated on 2026-05-20.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models for classical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze calligraphic styles and manuscript illumination patterns from the digitized pages.
• Conduct digital preservation research on historical documents using a high-fidelity master copy.
• Study the textual and paratextual features of Quranic manuscripts from the described heritage collection.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, providing institutional provenance.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; the internal structure of the ZIP file must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.
• The description metadata is limited to the source and access links; specific data characteristics require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.01713.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 10:19:33.