Quran Manuscript Part 19, High-Resolution Digital Master Copy

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.01981 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset is a 1.4 GB ZIP file containing Part 19 of the Quran. It was published by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license and last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Training OCR models for historical Arabic calligraphy based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Studying the paleography and scribal traditions of Quranic manuscripts.
• Digitally preserving and analyzing the visual layout and ornamentation of Islamic texts.
• Creating educational resources for the study of Quranic text transmission.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Directly sourced from a known heritage collection (QNL Heritage Collection).
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect the specific geographic and temporal bias inherent to this single manuscript source.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.01981.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 10:47:30; freshness should be verified.