Bidur Bhattarai (CSMC Hamburg) leads the preservation work on Nepalese books at the Āśā Saphūkuthi / Asha Archives and other centres in Kathmandu, with support from Hidden Stories and Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) in a project to preserve the written cultural heritage of Nepal. The Āśā Saphūkuthi holds over 9,000 Buddhist and Hindu manuscripts dating between the 15th and the 20th centuries, containing works on poetics, astronomy, astrology, medicine, and ritual, in Sanskrit, Nepali, Newari, and Maithili. Pothi-style manuscripts are cleaned, stabilised, and archivally housed. Paper manuscripts and rolled palm-leaf manuscripts are wrapped in archival lokta paper and cloth wrappers or stored in archival phase (storage) boxes. In 2023, archive staff learned of 270 disordered manuscript leaves and 25 rolled palm-leaf texts, which the team cleaned, sorted back into their original manuscript grouping, and stablised for future study. The local team, who have been trained in this work, will continue to sort these scattered leaves, which may come from as many as 750 different manuscripts. They have also cleaned 400 bundles (approximately 1900 paper manuscript sheets), much of which has been digitised. With Hidden Stories sub-grant funding, a team of archivists is continuing their preservation and documentation efforts, which is part of the larger CSMC project, “Safeguarding the Manuscripts in Nepal.”