Quran Manuscript Part 4, High-Resolution Digital Copy

A 1.4 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.01966 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset provides access to the fourth part (Juz' 4) of the Quran. Qatar National Library published this digitized manuscript under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition models for classical Arabic calligraphy based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze scribal styles and manuscript illumination patterns from the high-resolution digital master.
• Conduct digital preservation research using a CC0-licensed master copy of a cultural heritage artifact.
• Study the textual layout and verse segmentation in historical Quranic manuscripts.

Strengths

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

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.
• The 1.4 GB size suggests a large image collection, but the specific number of images and their dimensions are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.01966.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 11:26:59; freshness should be verified.