CATEGORY
Digital Manuscript and Rare Book Collections
INSTITUTION
Harvard University
URL
https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/chinese-rare-books
DESCRIPTION
The Harvard-Yenching Library's Chinese Rare Book collection includes Chinese books from the 13th to 19th centuries covering classics & history, philosophy, collectanea, and unique manuscripts. The collection is composed of: 1,500 Song, Yuan, and Ming block-print books (including duplicates), and 188 of them cannot be found in any of the major libraries in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Japan; Roughly 1,500 manuscripts (including holographs); Song, Yuan, and Ming encyclopedias (leishu); Nearly 2,600 gazetteers, including 720 rare editions printed from the Ming through the Qianlong period; Banned books and women's writing.