Memory of the World Programme

The Memory of the World International Register is a list of documentary heritage identified by an International Advisory Committee of the UNESCO since 1997. The list consist of the following objects:

Albania

• Codex Purpureus Beratinus (2005)

Argentina

• Documents of the Viceroyalty of Rio de Plata (1997)

National Archives, Buenos Aires

Armenia

• Mashtots Matenadaran Ancient Manuscripts (1997)

Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan

Australia

• Endeavour Journal of James Cook (2001)

National Library of Australia, Canberra

• Mabo Case Manuscripts (2001)

National Library of Australia, Canberra

Austria

• Vienna Dioscurides (1997)

Austrian National Library, Vienna

• Final Document of the Congress of Vienna (1997)

Austrian State Archives, Vienna

• Historical Collections (1899-1950) (1999)

Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

• Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer (2001)

Austrian National Library, Vienna

• Vienna City Library's Schubert Collection (2001)

Vienna City Library, Vienna

• Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem of the Austrian National Library (2003)
• Brahms Collection (2005)
• Collection of Gothic Architectural Drawings (2005)

Azerbaijan

• Medieval manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy (2005)

Barbados

• Documentary Heritage of Enslaved Peoples of the Caribbean (2003)

Belgium

• Business Archives of the Officina Plantiniana (2001)

Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerpen

Benin

• Colonial archives (1997)

National Archives, Porto Novo

Brazil

• Emperor's collection: foreign and Brazilian photography in the XIX century (2003)

Chile

• Human Rights Archive (2003)
• Jesuits of America (2003)

China

• Traditional Music Sound Archives (1997)

Music Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing

• Records of the Qing's Grand Secretariat (1999)

First Historical Archives of China, Palace Museum, Beijing

• Ancient Naxi Dongba Literature Manuscripts (2003)
• Golden Lists of the Qing Dynasty Imperial Examination (2005)

Colombia

• Negros y Esclavos Archives (2005)

Cuba

• “José Martí Pérez” Fonds (2005)

Denmark

• Archives of the Danish overseas trading companies (1997)

Danish National Archives, Copenhagen

• Linné Collection (1997)

Danish National Library of Sciences and Medicine, Copenhagen

• Manuscripts and correspondence of Hans Christian Andersen (1997)

Manuscript Department, Royal Library, Copenhagen

• Søren Kierkegaard Archives (1997)

Manuscript Department, Royal Library, Copenhagen

Egypt

• Memory of the Suez Canal (1997)

Cultural Bureau, Egyptian Embassy, Paris

• Deeds of Sultans and Princes (2005)

Ethiopia

• Treasures from National Archives and Library Organizations (1997)

National Archives and Library, Addis Ababa

Finland

• A.E. Nordenskiöld Collection (1997)

University Library, Helsinki

France

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789-1791) (2003)
• The Appeal of 18 June 1940 (2005)
• Lumière Films (2005)
• Introduction of the decimal metric system, 1790-1837 (2005)

Germany

• Early cylinder recordings of the world's musical traditions (1893-1952) in the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv (1999)

Phonogrammarchiv, Museum of Ethnology, Berlin

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony n°9, d-minor, op.125 (2001)

State Library, Berlin

• Literary estate of Goethe (2001)

Goethe and Schiller Archives, Weimar

• 42-line Gutenberg Bible (2001)

State and Universitary Library of Lower Saxonia, Goettingen

• Metropolis (2001)

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Wiesbaden

• Illuminated manuscripts from the Ottonian period produced in the monastery of Reichenau (Lake Constance) (2003)
• Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales) (2005)

Hungary

• Kalman Tihanyi's 1926 Patent Application "Radioskop" (2001)

National Archives of Hungary, Budapest

• The Bibliotheca Corviniana Collection (2005)

India

• I.A.S. Tamil Medical Manuscript Collection (1997)

Institute of Asian Studies, Tamil Nadu

• Saiva Manuscripts in Pondicherry (2005)

Italy

• The Malatesta Novello Library (2005)

Kazakhstan

• Collection of manuscripts of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (2003)
• Audiovisual documents of the International antinuclear movement “Nevada-Semipalatinsk” (2005)

Republic of Korea

• Hunmin Chongum manuscript (1997)

Kansong Art Museum, Seoul

• Annals of the Choson Dynasty (1997)

Chongjoksan Sagobon, Seoul

• Seungjeongwon Ilgi, the Diaries of the Royal Secretariat (2001)

Gyujanggak Library and Seoul National University, Seoul

• Buljo jikji simche yojeol (vol. II), the second volume of "Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests’ Zen Teachings" (2001)

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Latvia

• Dainu skapis - Cabinet of Folksongs (2001)

Archives of Latvian Folklore, Riga

Lebanon

• Commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb, Mount Lebanon (2005)
• The Phoenician Alphabet (2005)

Luxembourg

• Family of Man (2003)

Malaysia

• Correspondence of the late Sultan of Kedah (1882-1943) (2001)

National Archives of Malaysia, Alor Setar

• Hikayat Hang Tuah (2001)

National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

• Sejarah Melayu (the Malay Annals) (2001)

Institute of Language and Literature, Kuala Lumpur

Mauritius

• Records of the French Occupation of Mauritius (1997)

Mauritius Archives, Petite Rivière, Port Louis

Mexico

• Collection of Mexican Codices (1997)

National Library of Anthropology and History, Mexico City

• Codices from the Oaxaca Valley (1997)

National Archives, Mexico City

• Codex Techaloyan from Cuajimalpaz (1997)

National Archives, Mexico City

• Los olvidados (2003)

Filmoteca de la UNAM, Mexico

• Biblioteca Palafoxiana (2005)

Namibia

• Letter Journals of Hendrik Witbooi (2005)

Netherlands

• Library Ets Haim – Livraria Montezinos (2003)
• Archives of the Dutch East India Company (2003)

New Zealand

• Treaty of Waitangi (1997)

National Archives, Wellington

• The 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition (1997)

National Archives, Wellington

Norway

• The Leprosy Archives of Bergen (2001)

City Archives and Regional State Archives of Bergen, Bergen

• Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House (2001)

National Library of Norway, Oslo

• Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition (1910-1912) (2005)

Pakistan

• Jinnah Papers (1999)

National Archives, Islamabad

Philippines

• Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala'wan) (1999)

National Museum, Manila

• Radio Broadcast of the Philippine People Power Revolution (2003)

Poland

• Nicolaus Copernicus' masterpiece "De revolutionibus libri sex" (1999)

Jagiellonian Library, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

• Warsaw Ghetto Archives (Emanuel Ringelblum Archives) (1999)

Jewish Historical Research Institute, Warsaw

• The Masterpieces of Fryderyk Chopin (1999)

The Fryderyk Chopin Society, Warsaw

• The General Confederation of Warsaw (2003)
• Twenty-One Demands, Gdañsk, August 1980. The birth of the SOLIDARITY trades union – a massive social movement. (2003)

Portugal

• Letter from Pêro Vaz de Caminha (2005)

Russian Federation

• Archangel Gospel of 1092 (1997)

Russian State Library, Moscow

• Khitrovo Gospel (1997)

Russian State Library, Moscow

• Slavonic publications in Cyrillic script of the 15th century (1997)

Russian State Library, Moscow

• Newspaper collections (1997)

Russian State Library, Moscow

• Maps of the Russian empire and its collection of the 18th century (1997)

Russian State Library, Moscow

• Russian posters of the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries (1997)

Russian State Library, Moscow

• Historical Collections (1889-1955) of St. Petersburg Phonogram Archives (2001)

Institute of Russian Literature and Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

Saudi Arabia

• Earliest Islamic (Kufic) inscription (2003)

Senegal

• Afrique occidentale française, AOF (1997)

National Archives, Dakar

Serbia and Montenegro

• Nikola Tesla’S Archive (2003)
• Miroslav Gospel – Manuscript from 1180 (2005)

Slovakia

• Illuminated Codices from the Library of the Bratislava Chapter House (1997)

National Archives, Bratislava

• Basagic Collection of Islamic Manuscripts (1997)

University Library, Bratislava

South Africa

• The Bleek collection (1997)

University of Cape Town / South African Library, Cape Town

Sweden

• Astrid Lindgren Archives (2005)
• Emanuel Swedenborg Collection (2005)

Tajikistan

• Ubayd Zakoni's "Kulliyat" and Hafez Sherozi's "Gazalliyt" manuscript (XIV century) (2003)

Tanzania

• German Records of the National Archives (1997)

National Archives, Dar Es Salam

• Collection of Arabic Manuscripts and Books (2003)

Thailand

• King Ram Khamhaeng Inscription (2003)

Trinidad and Tobago

• The Derek Walcott Collection (1997)

The Main Library, University of West Indies, St. Augustine

• The Eric Williams Collection (1999)

The Main Library, University of West Indies, St. Augustine

• C.L.R. James Collection (2005)

Turkey

• The Hittite cuneiform tablets from Bogazköy (2001)

Archaeological Museums of Istanbul and Anatolian Civilizations Museum of Ankara

• Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute Manuscripts (2001)

Bogaziçi University, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul

• Works of Ibn Sina in the Süleymaniye Manuscript Library (2003)

Ukraine

• Collection of Jewish Musical Folklore (1912-1947) (2005)

United Kingdom

• The Battle of the Somme (2005)

United States of America

• Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque Lustrationes (2005)

Uruguay

• Original records of Carlos Gardel - Horacio Loriente Collection (1913-1935) (2003)

Uzbekistan

• Holy Koran Mushaf of Othman (1997)

The Muslim Board of Uzbekistan, Tashkent

• Collection of the Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies (1997)

Academy of Sciences, Tashkent

Venezuela

• Escritos del liberator (1997)

National Archives, Caracas

• Collection of Latinamerican photography of the 19th Century (1997)

National Library, Caracas