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=== Rare books and documents ===
Rare books in the National Palace Museum range from the [[Song dynasty|Song]] (960–1279) and [[Yuan dynasty|Yuan]] (1271–1368) dynasties to the [[Ming dynasty|Ming]] (1368–1644) and [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] (1644–1912) dynasties, amounting to over 200,000 volumes.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://culture.teldap.tw/culture/detail.php?i=115 |title=Rare Books (National Palace Museum) |publisher=Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program |access-date=25 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://taiwanacademy.tw/en/archives/collection/14752/1.html |title=Collections: Rare Books (National Palace Museum) |publisher=Taiwan Academy |access-date=25 September 2012 |archive-date=4 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504011131/http://taiwanacademy.tw/en/archives/collection/14752/1.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Yongle Encyclopedia]]'' and ''[[Complete Library of the Four Treasuries]]'' are among the examples.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_02.htm?docno=263&catno=14&pageno=3 |title=Vast Documents of the Yung-lo Era |publisher=National Palace Museum |access-date=25 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_02.htm?docno=264&catno=14&pageno=3 |title=Complete Library of the Four Treasuries |publisher=National Palace Museum |access-date=25 September 2012}}</ref>

Historical documents in the museum include ''[[Jiu Manzhou Dang]]'', a set of [[Manchu people|Manchu]] archives that are the sourcebook of ''[[Manwen Laodang]]'' and a primary source of early Manchu history.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_02.htm?docno=235&catno=11 |title=Archives in Old Manchu |publisher=National Palace Museum |access-date=25 September 2012}}</ref> Other official documents such as the court archives are available for research in the history of the Qing dynasty.