Libraries
All the printed collections and archives from the EPHE's libraries and documentation centers have been integrated into the Humathèque, the large documentary facility of the Campus Condorcet.
This transdisciplinary documentary collection housed in the Humathèque of the Campus Condorcet represents a total of nearly one million documents (mainly books and journals but also scientific archives, photographs, films, maps and sound recordings in physical or digital form). Designed as a shared laboratory for research, the Humathèque Condorcet is accessible to researchers, research support staff and students (master's and PhD students), and gradually opens up to the entire academic community from the master’s level onwards.
Conditions of access
The vast majority of documents are available in open access within the consultation areas. Archival collections and rare or precious documents are kept in the Humathèque's reserves and can be consulted in a specific consultation room.
Address
Humathèque
10, cours des Humanités
93322 Aubervilliers Cedex
Link
https://ged.campus-condorcet.fr/fr/collections-et-archives/collections
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Bibliothèque des Sciences religieuses
Library of the Centre d'Études sur les Religions et Traditions Populaires du Japon
Library of the Centre d'Études Mongoles et Sibériennes
Michel Fleury Library
Collections of the Centre de documentation sur l'Aire Tibétaine
Library of the Centre Wladimir Golenischeff
Christian and Byzantine Collection known as the Photothèque Gabriel Millet
Bibliothèque des Sciences religieuses
Created in 1970, the Bibliothèque des Sciences religieuses grew from the chairs of the directors of studies. Its collections (30,000 documents) cover ancient religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They deal with the constitution and interpretation of the written sources of the three monotheisms, taking into account their environment and their intellectual, religious and philosophical extensions.
Library of the Centre d'Études sur les Religions et Traditions Populaires du Japon
The Centre d'Études sur les Religions et Traditions Populaires du Japon has built up a rich collection of documents on Japanese folk religions, folklore, ethnology and anthropology, as well as a large collection of black-and-white photographs of everyday Japanese life, mainly its religious aspects.
Library of the Centre d’Études Mongoles et Sibériennes
From 1970 onwards, the library has been built up by researchers in the field, mainly through books brought back from their field missions and exchanges of the journal Études mongoles with other periodicals.
Michel Fleury Library
The Michel Fleury Library, the library of the Historical and Philological Sciences Section of the EPHE, has existed since the creation of the EPHE in 1868. This collection includes more than 70,000 documents (monographs, periodicals, microforms, reprints, theses).
Areas of Specialization:
- Historical and philological sciences
- Particularly Greco-Roman antiquity (especially epigraphy), Egyptology, European Middle Ages, auxiliary sciences of history, linguistics, Indian studies...
Collections of the Centre de documentation sur l’Aire Tibétaine
The photo library is rich in 12,000 slides and more than 3000 photographs documenting the Tibetan area. The collection consists of more than 3000 monographs in Western languages and a thousand titles in Tibetan, including several large collections. One of its specific collections comes from the library of Rolf Stein. The fields covered are the religions (Buddhism and Bon), history, philosophy, civilization and arts of the Tibetan area, especially Tibet and Bhutan.
Library of the Centre Wladimir Golenischeff
It is a library specialized in Egyptology which brings together customs, dictionaries, and lexicons, the major French and international journals, dead or alive, the major collections of French and foreign monographs (religion, archaeology, editions of texts, etc.), old works of heritage value, a large choice of reprints, as well as maps.
The library also holds a wealth of closed archives (Golenischeff, Lacau, Montet, Yoyotte) or open archives (French Mission for the Excavations of Tanis EPHE/MAE) with photographic plates, photographic prints, plans and drawings, and notes.
Originally established by the library of the Russian Egyptologist Wladimir Golenischeff (1856-1947), the collections have been supplemented by purchases and donations, the latest being that of works by the former director of studies Jean Yoyotte. The collections of monographs and periodicals are supplemented by the diplomas and theses of the section.
Christian and Byzantine Collection known as Photothèque Gabriel Millet
Established from Gabriel Millet's bequest to the EPHE, the Christian and Byzantine collection, known by the name of its founder, is a heritage fund of documentary resources from the early twentieth century. It includes a large number of glass plates and paper prints, as well as architectural surveys, watercolors and ivory casts. In addition, there are models of books, letters and a collection of publications.
Areas of Specialization:
- Christian iconography Byzantium, Slavic world, the Middle East
- Eastern Christian Arts (Italy, Balkans, Caucasus, Russia, Cappadocia, Cyprus, Syria, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia) The Archives of the Collège de France hold a Gabriel Millet collection (in 1926, Gabriel Millet was appointed full professor of the Chair of Aesthetics and Art History, then honorary professor after his retirement in 1937)