Quran Manuscript Part 17 from Qatar National Library Heritage Collection

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.01979 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The 1.3 GB file contains a digitized version of Part 17 of the Quran. Qatar National Library published this dataset under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition models based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze historical Arabic calligraphy styles based on the digitized manuscript.
• Study the layout and ornamentation of Quranic manuscripts from the heritage collection.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 license.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

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.01979).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 10:51:52; freshness should be verified.