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Manchu Book Collections Page

World Libraries with Manchu Collections

There is as yet no library that has mounted extensive information on its Manchu collections on the WWW. Below are links to libraries known to hold Manchu-language materials that provide general indications of their collections and whom to contact. If it is known that the library has records for their Manchu holdings in an internet-accessible OPAC (online public access catalog), the information for connecting to the OPAC is given. When live links to the library have been made available, citations to print catalogs of individual collections are also noted.

Collections by Country

Australia

• National Library of Australia, Simon Collection (Canberra)

China

France

• Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des manuscrits, Division des manuscrits orientaux (Paris) (warning: large image on page!)
  • Printed catalog: Jeanne-Marie Puyraimond, Catalogue du fonds mandchou, Paris, BN, 1979.

Germany

Great Britain

• British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections (London)

Japan

• Toyo Bunko, Manchu-Mongol Section (Tokyo)

Mongolia

Russia

Taiwan

United States of America

• American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)
• Cleveland Public Library (Cleveland, OH)
• Columbia University, Starr East Asian Library (New York, NY)
• Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, IL)
• Harvard University, Harvard-Yenching Library (Cambridge, MA)
• Indiana University Library, East Asian Collection (Bloomington, IN)
  • IUCAT (IU's OPAC: contains records for microfilm of the Tenri collection of Manchu-books in Manchu-characters)
• Indiana University, Department of Central Eurasian Studies (Bloomington, IN)
• Johns Hopkins University, Milton Eisenhower Library (Baltimore, MD)
  • JANUS (Johns Hopkins' OPAC: MSEL database contains Manchu holdings)
  • Printed finding list: Chia Ning, "The Manchu collection in the Johns Hopkins Library," Central & Inner Asian Studies 6(1992):36-43.
• Library of Congress, Asian Division (Washington, DC)
• New York Public Library, Center for the Humanities, Oriental Division (New York, NY)
• Princeton University, Gest Oriental Library (Princeton, NJ)
• Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library and Archives (Stanford, CA)
• University of California, Berkeley, East Asian Library (Berkeley, CA)
• University of Chicago, Far Eastern Library (Chicago, IL)
• University of Hawai'i at Manoa (Honolulu, HI)
• University of Washington, East Asia Library (Seattle, WA)
  • Guide available: Manchu Materials in the East Asia Library, University of Washington. Compiled by Yeen-mei Wu. Seattle, 1982. 12p.

Last updated: July 14, 1996

Comments and suggestions: Cheryl Boettcher Tarsala

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