Quran Manuscript Part 3 from Qatar National Library Heritage Collection

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.02062 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset is a 3.2 GB ZIP file containing a digitized manuscript of the third part (Juz') 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

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models based on high-resolution scans of historical Arabic script.
• Analyze calligraphic styles and manuscript illumination based on the high-resolution digital master copy.
• Conduct textual analysis of Quranic verses based on the manuscript's content.
• Develop image segmentation models for separating text from background based on the manuscript's layout.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• 3.2 GB size suggests a substantial amount of image data.
• Published by Qatar National Library, an authoritative cultural institution.
• 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.02062.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 08:44:52; freshness should be verified.