The Asian Library’s Vietnam collection comprises 1,000 titles in Vietnamese, totalling more than 3,000 volumes dating from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.
It includes several types of printed material:
- General works on the history of Christianity in Vietnam.
- 309 titles in the languages of the Central Highlands (Central Vietnam), representing 21 different languages. Many of these publications stem from the pastoral work of priests from the Paris Foreign Missions Society in the fields of catechesis, liturgy, spirituality and Bible translation. All these titles are listed in the online catalogue.
- Issues of 6 periodicals in Vietnamese and 17 periodicals in French relating to the colonial period in Indochina, whether published in France or Vietnam.
- A collection (unique in France) of books and documents in Han Nôm (demotic script), which is not catalogued online but is listed in a catalogue published in 2004:
Isabelle Landry-Deron, Inventaire des ouvrages en Han Nôm conservés aux Missions étrangères / Muc luc thu tai Hoi thua sai Ba-Lê / 巴黎乘差會所藏漢喃書籍目錄, Paris: Les Indes Savantes, Etudes et Documents, 2004, 256 pp.
This collection comprises devotional books, religious calendars, official calendars, Buddhist texts and secular works.
- 368 maps and plans, fully catalogued, including around thirty manuscripts, some of which were produced by missionaries in the field.
