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.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by Library of Congress's own exhibit and blog, plus independent corroboration from World History Encyclopedia and museum sources. Minor discrepancy in some secondary sources (60,000 vs 50,000 couplets) noted but majority consensus supports the claim's figures. [tier=gold indep_score=0.983 clusters=3 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.worldhistory.org/shahnameh/ (corroboration)
- https://collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au/node/54956 (corroboration)