Woodblocks of the Nguyễn Dynasty (original) (raw)

Woodblocks of the Nguyễn Dynasty (Vietnamese: Mộc bản triều Nguyễn) is a collection of 34,555 plates of woodblock made during the reign of the Nguyễn Dynasty in which engraved various contents from official literature, history to classic and historical books. In 2009, this collection became the first entry of Vietnam in the list of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme.