Dataset

al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī (Add MS 23494)

Public Deposited

Creator
  • British Library  ( ISNI )
  • Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi  ( ORCID   ISNI )
2020

Abstract
  • This dataset is a PDF file containing the images and transcription the manuscript titled al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī الدرّ النقيّ في فنّ الموسيقي by Aḥmad ibn 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Mawṣilī أحمد بن عبد الرحمن الموصلي. The manuscript was digitised through the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership, and made available through the Qatar Digital Library (https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026906787.0x000001). The manuscript was transcribed as part of the RASM 2018 competition (https://www.primaresearch.org/RASM2018/). The ground truth was created using Aletheia (https://www.primaresearch.org/tools/Aletheia), and the PDF was exported using Transkribus (https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/). The transcription is embedded within the PDF, which makes it searchable. The manuscript's PDF (images and text) is out of copyright and in the public domain.

Items:

Thumbnail File Name Date Uploaded Visibility File Size Actions
Add_MS_23494.pdf 2021-01-07 Public 21 MB

Metadata

Resource Type
  • Dataset
Creator
  • British Library  ( ISNI )
  • Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi  ( ORCID   ISNI )
Contributor
  • McGregor, Nora  ( Data Curator ORCID )
  • Ihnatowicz, Julia  ( Transcriber )
  • Lowe, Daniel  ( Other ORCID )
Date published
  • 2020
Institution
  • British Library
Project name
  • Automatic Transcription of Historical Handwritten Arabic Texts
Official URL
Related URL
Licence
  • CC Public Domain Mark 1.0
DOI
  • doi.org/10.23636/1286
Keyword
Additional Information
  • The PDF file is 22 MB, and includes high resolution images in JPEG format accompanied by text transcription. Please note that this excludes diagrams and other folios, which can be viewed on the QDL website (link above).

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