External Collections

Online Collections

This cartographic database contains the 20,980 rubbings of steles produced in Vietnam by the École Française d'Extrême-Orient between 1910 and 1944. An ERC program of the École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Vatican collection of sources from Vietnam, both Quốc ngữ and Hán Việt.

Maurice Durand collection of Hán-Nôm materials at Yale University.

British Library Endangered Archives Programme (EAP): Digital collections from Vietnam.

Vietnam Nôm Manuscripts Field Digitization Project by Temple University.

Hán-Nôm documents and manuscripts preserved on the Internet Archive.

98 Buddhist texts in Hán-Nôm from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century, discovered at Cảnh Phước, a Vietnamese temple in Bangkok, Thailand. Digitized in the Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive (Center for Southeast Asian Studies).

Open repository of about 9,000 premodern Chinese texts, arranged by Classics, Histories, Masters, Collections, Daoist and Buddhist canons, and released under a Creative Commons license.

Reading and collation platform for premodern Chinese books from the Peking University–ByteDance Digital Humanities Open Lab, with full-text search checked against page scans for thousands of titles drawn from the Sibu congkan, Siku quanshu, and Bona edition of the Twenty-Four Histories.

Physical Collections

Digitized card catalogs and bibliographic records from the Institute of Sino-Nôm Studies in Hanoi.

A Chinese-language catalog of Hán-Nôm materials, most of which are also covered by the Institute of Sino-Nôm Studies catalog.

Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations: Comprehensive research catalog for extensive Vietnamese and Hán-Nôm collections in France.

Search the digital collection of the National Library of Vietnam, including a significant Hán-Nôm repository.

Catalog of Hán-Nôm holdings from the Ho Chi Minh City General Sciences Library.

Digital archives and library catalogs from the French School of the Far East.

Houses significant administrative records from the Nguyễn Dynasty and French Colonial period.

Home to the Nguyen Dynasty Woodblocks, a UNESCO World Documentary Heritage, and other rare administrative and historical documents.