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April 19, 2006: The Netherlands to Transfer Ancient Manuscripts to Iran
"Tehran -- The Netherlands is to transfer a collection of ancient manuscripts including 2000 stone inscriptions and 100 paper manuscripts to Iran in a near future."
"'Three Iranian collection owners residing abroad have collected numerous precious manuscripts from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Central Asia for 12 years and since one of these three people is residing in The Netherlands, the entire collection was sent to him by the other two to be kept in a single place. Last year they offered Iran’s National Library to submit this collection to this center so that it may be kept inside Iran,” said Habibollah Azimi, director of handwritten and rare manuscripts of Iran’s National Library.'"


