Quran Manuscript Part 17: 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.02076, which is Part 17 of the Quran. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-18 and is shared under a CC0 1.0 license. It is part of the QNL Heritage Collection and links to the full catalog and digital repository are included in the description.

Use Cases

• Train or evaluate manuscript digitization and OCR models based on high-resolution scans of historical Arabic text.
• Conduct paleographic analysis of Quranic script styles based on the high-resolution manuscript images.
• Study the material culture and layout of historical Islamic manuscripts based on the digital facsimile.

Strengths

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

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.02076.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 08:05:18; freshness should be verified.