Category:Les manuscrits de Maurice M. Durand

English: The Manuscripts of Maurice M. Durand is the collection consists of publications, transliterations, photographs, research notes, and microfilm created, assembled, or used by Maurice M. Durand during his academic and administrative career. The material relates to Asia, primarily Vietnam, in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Much of Durand's own research notes concern Vietnamese literature and Vietnamese and Indochinese linguistics. Durand was a well-known scholar of Han and Nom. Han is Chinese language texts written using Chinese characters. Nom is Vietnamese language texts written using Chinese characters. Many texts of the period in which Durand specialized are written in a mixture of Han and Nom.