Nghe An Library receives precious book set
(Baonghean) -The French School of the Far East (France) has just donated to Nghe An Library a precious book set entitled "Complete collection of Han Nom engraved texts".
Collection of Works.
The book set consists of 22 volumes, printed on special paper, hardcover, published in France. The work was painstakingly collected by French and Vietnamese experts, transcribed from 39,872 stone steles that once existed in temples, pagodas, mausoleums, shrines, cultural and historical works... throughout Vietnam. The book set is accompanied by 4 volumes of bibliography for easy reference. The work was carried out several centuries ago, and is kept at the French Institute of the Far East, and is worth more than 160 million VND (300 USD/volume).
The restored stele of Thanh Vu Bi (in Nghe An).
Due to subjective and objective reasons, up to now, many historical and cultural architectural works and many steles have disappeared, or the ones that remain have been eroded and cannot be read. Some works have been and are being restored or rebuilt, but the original steles no longer exist. In such conditions, the gift from the French Far East Archaeological Center to Nghe An Library is invaluable for researchers and researchers in the reconstruction of a large number of damaged steles.
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