Quran Manuscript Part 16: High-Resolution Digital Master from QNL Heritage Collection

A 2.7 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.02094 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset contains a single part (Part 16) of the Quran and is provided under a CC0-1.0 license. Qatar National Library published this digitized manuscript on figshare.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition models based on high-resolution images of Arabic calligraphy.
• Analyze manuscript illumination and decorative elements based on the high-resolution digital master.
• Conduct paleographic studies of Quranic scripts based on the detailed manuscript images.
• Create digital preservation benchmarks based on the high-quality scan from a heritage collection.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Explicitly sourced from a documented heritage collection (QNL HC.MS.02094).
• Released under a permissive public domain license (CC0-1.0).

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.02094.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 07:12:26; freshness should be verified.