Quran Manuscript Part 20: High-Resolution Digital Copy from Qatar National Library

A 2.6 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.02079 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset contains the 20th part (Juz') of the Quran and was last updated on May 18, 2026. It is provided by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train or evaluate OCR models based on high-resolution images of classical Arabic calligraphy.
• Conduct paleographic analysis of Quranic manuscripts based on the digitized script style.
• Study the layout and ornamentation of historical religious texts based on the manuscript images.
• Create digital preservation benchmarks based on the high-resolution master copy.

Strengths

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

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.02079.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 08:01:06; freshness should be verified.