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December 15, 2005: "Iran has Largest Collection of Hand-Written Books"
"Iran has the largest collection of handwritten books in the world, declared the Director General of Handwritten Books Department of Iran National Library Habibollah Azimi."
"He told that several years ago, Turkey ranked first with 300,000 volumes of handwritten books and was followed by Iran, India and Pakistan respectively. However currently, Iran has 400,000 volumes of handwritten books at Iran National Library, Ayatollah Marashi Library and a number of other private libraries, he noted."
