Much of the Library of Congress's rare Persian-language collection came from Kirkor Minassian, an antiquities dealer who procured Islamic and Near-Eastern texts for the library during the 1930s.
Notes on verification
Confirmed directly by Library of Congress official collection pages and blog, corroborated by Smithsonian and other university library sources.
Sources
- The Library of Congress Has Digitized 155 Persian Texts Dating ... (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-19-036/1000-years-of-literary-tradition-in-rare-persian-language-manuscripts-now-online-at-library-of-congress/2019-04-01/ (loc.gov)
- https://www.loc.gov/collections/persian-language-rare-materials/about-this-collection/ (loc.gov)
- https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2016/01/he-came-from-the-near-east/ (blogs.loc.gov)
- https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_F1938.3/ (asia.si.edu)