PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 20 -- The more than 250-page manuscript of the monumental Persian epic 'Shahnameh'-composed by poet Ferdowsi between 977 and 1010 CE and comprising nearly 60,000 couplets chronicling Iran's ancient history-will soon be accessible to readers worldwide with just a click.

Alongside it, several other rare works preserved in the 161-year-old State Public Library in Prayagraj-including the original 1795 manuscript of The Treatise on Mills, Selected Letters of Tipu Sultan (1811), Institute of Hindu Law (1796), and bound volumes of the Gazette of India and provincial gazettes dating back to the 19th and 18th centuries-are also set to be digitised and made available online.

This move comes after the library's managing committee, ...