The Library of Congress's digitized Persian collection includes a copy of the Shahnameh, an epic consisting of 62 stories divided into 990 chapters and containing 50,000 rhyming couplets.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by the Library of Congress's own blog and exhibit pages, plus independent corroboration from World History Encyclopedia and other sources on the Shahnameh's structure. [tier=silver indep_score=0.925 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- The Library of Congress Has Digitized 155 Persian Texts Dating ... (seed:culture_and_philosophy)
- https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/05/fresh-life-online-for-the-epic-shahnamah/ (corroboration)
- https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/thousand-years-of-the-persian-book/epic-of-shahnameh.html (corroboration)
- https://www.loc.gov/item/2012498868/ (corroboration)
- https://www.worldhistory.org/shahnameh/ (corroboration)