The Southeast Asian collection
Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia
The South East Asian collection consists of manuscripts (including palm-leaves), printed books (monographs and journals), microfilms and AV-materials, and a small collection of objects related to the art of the South East Asian book.
Search for printed books in the online catalogue REX. Use Latin letters in transcription.
The reading room on floor E Vest (LÆEV) contain a reference collection with books in Oriental and Western languages.
This reference collection can be located in REX .
Manuscripts may only be used in the centre, where the catalogue is located. Some of the manuscripts can be located in the old Latin catalogue: Codices Orientales Bibliothecæ Regiæ Havniensis vol. 1 (published by Westergaard & Mehren, 1846) from pp. 63-. Access to a PDF-version for print, click here
Catalogue of Cambodian and Burmese Pāli manuscripts: COMDC2,1
Catalogue des manuscripts en Pāli, laotien et siamois provenant de la Thailande: COMDC2,2
Catalogue of Indonesian manuscripts. Part 1, Batak manuscripts: COMDC4,1
Catalogue of Indonesian manuscripts. Part 2, Javanese, Malay, Lampung manuscripts and Mad Lange's letters: COMDC4.2
The collection has materials in Sinhalese, Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Thai, Viet-Muong, Austroasiatic and Mon-Khmer languages.
A small collection of Shan-materials (mostly in Shan language but some in English) on language teaching, grammars, history og politics can be consulted in the Center for Orientali and Judaica. Collected by the linguist Jørgen Rischel. List Shanarchive (in Danish/English) of the materials, click. Have to be requested in REX
EXTERNAL LINKS
School of Oriental and African Studies. Department of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia
Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. Fachinformationsführer zu süd- und südostasiatischen Sprachen und Kulturen
Includes links to other useful information
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Letter from the Balinese wife of Mads Lange, ca. 1840
