Quran Manuscript Part 18 from Qatar National Library Heritage Collection

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.02621 from its Heritage Collection. The 2.5 GB ZIP file contains a digitized part of the Quran. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06-04.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition models for Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze historical calligraphy and manuscript illumination styles based on the digitized artifact.
• Conduct digital preservation research on cultural heritage materials based on the master copy.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy provides detailed visual data.
• Source is a documented heritage manuscript from Qatar National Library.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 license for wide reuse.

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.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection

Collection Method

Digitization of physical manuscript HC.MS.02621.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 09:45:31; freshness should be verified.