The Shahnameh, a Persian epic in the Library of Congress collection, consists of 62 stories divided into 990 chapters and contains 50,000 rhyming couplets.
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- The Library of Congress Has Digitized 155 Persian Texts Dating ... (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/05/fresh-life-online-for-the-epic-shahnamah/ (blogs.loc.gov)
- https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/thousand-years-of-the-persian-book/epic-of-shahnameh.html (loc.gov)
- https://www.worldhistory.org/shahnameh/ (worldhistory.org)
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