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Memory of the World: The treasures that record our history from 1700 BC to the present day
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Memory of the World: The treasures that record our history from 1700 BC to the present day

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Memory of the World: The treasures that record our history from 1700 BC to the present day
UNESCO UNESCO

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, priceless documentary heritage records the diversity of languages, peoples and knowledge that has influenced humanity from the early days of human history to the present. This heritage documents important events, discoveries or inventions that have transformed the world.The UNESCO Memory of the World programme was created to preserve these recorded treasures of humanity and mobilize resources so that future generations can enjoy this legacy which is preserved in the major libraries, archives and museums across the globe.This book is a full listing of all entries on the official UNESCO Memory of the World international register:• Unique list of documentary heritage from around the world• Photographs and descriptions for 244 precious documents• All entries identified by the UNESCO International Advisory Committee and endorsed by the Director-GeneralEntries include:• 42-line Gutenberg Bible, printed on vellum• Archives of the International Prisoners of War Agency, 1914-1923• Bayeux Tapestry• Magna Carta, issued in 1215• Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala’wan)• The Endeavour Journal of James Cook• The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming 1939)• Russian posters of the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries• The Battle of the Somme documentary• The Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem

MEMORY OF THE WORLD

Contents

The book is ordered by the date the documents were recorded

Title Page (#u642c72ed-985f-520d-b370-2b00060a4d9c)

Foreword (#ulink_d9b04b1b-01b4-56d5-a85f-dfcfee457865)

The emotional power of documents (#ulink_cc5e8401-e264-5e33-9209-25520e8f4627)

World map

Memory of the World Register (#ulink_c7f820a1-9b3d-5564-9649-f7b4029bb430)

MEMORY OF WORLD DOCUMENTS (#ulink_f57db0ff-f99a-53cd-8e7d-357dc5d3b5c8)

The Hittite cuneiform tablets from Bogazköy (#ulink_0a9702f3-c014-5895-a6cf-3f258555c3c4)

Rigveda (#ulink_983ab70a-f042-508b-94d1-20428e00ec71)

Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer (#ulink_77fb6219-4e3e-5c0b-919c-8e5e663cf479)

Commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb, Mount Lebanon (#ulink_6e04ba4d-7917-5a7a-92df-de90d153faa8)

The Phoenician alphabet (#ulink_5ab758c0-0535-517e-8ff2-6d3484aa47f5)

Huang Di Nei Jing

(Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon) (#ulink_ef1f0914-9ee6-54ec-81a1-f0960e1273d8)

Ancient Naxi Dongba literature manuscripts (#ulink_e7d2fecb-a4b1-5650-9cf4-24f4bb56337b)

Mashtots Matenadaran ancient manuscripts collection (#ulink_01212dc2-c60f-5227-8d09-a16ee0602615)

Saiva manuscripts in Pondicherry (#ulink_8a27a2ba-8e56-50f2-a802-1212dfc9a321)

Codex Argenteus – the ‘Silver Bible’ (#ulink_20b96b4b-5313-5201-884c-e6520450a098)

Codex Purpureus Beratinus (#ulink_717805c1-0626-51e8-8337-92e2e1c5d2d6)

Vienna Dioscurides (#ulink_89c28c36-dd87-55b3-a402-7c82465b8e77)

Earliest Islamic (Kufic) inscription (#ulink_f786cf7c-4c6b-5a69-8023-315c5dea975d)

Holy Koran Mushaf of Othman (#ulink_dc39fef2-7f12-5d8f-925e-4cbec6f3630c)

Lucca’s historical diocesan archives (#ulink_bc6bfec3-ea3f-55ad-94ed-65ebbd00a7d4)

The Book of Kells (#ulink_11bc2c4f-ec45-5d9c-aa9e-3560eebf6e05)

Laghukālacakratantrarājatikā (Vimalaprabhā)

The collection of the Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies

Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala’wan)

Georgian Byzantine manuscripts

Deeds of sultans and princes

Illuminated manuscripts from the Ottonian period produced in the monastery of Reichenau (Lake Constance)

Enina Apostolos, Old Bulgarian Cyrillic manuscript (fragment) of the 11th century

Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute manuscripts

Codex Suprasliensis

The works of Ibn Sina in the Süleymaniye Manuscript Library

Al-Tafhim li Awa’il Sana’at al-Tanjim

Ostromir Gospel (1056–1057)

Bayeux Tapestry

Archangel Gospel of 1092

Illuminated codices from the library of the Bratislava Chapter House

Medieval manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy

The Arnamagnæan manuscript collection

Miroslav Gospel – manuscript from 1180

Tabula Peutingeriana

Song of the Nibelungs, a heroic poem from medieval Europe

Magna Carta, issued in 1215

Printing woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana

MS. GKS 4 2°, vol. I–III, Biblia Latina. Commonly called ‘The Hamburg Bible’

Hereford Mappa Mundi

The King Ram Khamhaeng inscription

Library Ets Haim–Livraria Montezinos

The manuscript of Ubayd Zakoni’s Kulliyat and Hafez Sherozi’s Gazalliyt

Collection of medieval manuscripts of the Czech Reformation

The Deed For Endowment: Rab’ i-Rashidi (Rab i-Rashidi Endowment)

Batu Bersurat, Terengganu (Inscribed Stone of Terengganu)

La Galigo

Persian illustrated and illuminated manuscripts

Collection of Nezami’s Panj Ganj

Baegun hwasang chorok buljo jikji simche yojeol (vol. II)

Khitrovo Gospel

The Annals of the Joseon dynasty

Kitab al-ibar, wa diwan al-mobtadae wa al-khabar

Slavonic publications in Cyrillic script of the 15th century

Treasures from National Archives and Library organizations

Corpo Cronológico (collection of manuscripts on the Portuguese discoveries)

Radziwills’ Archives and Niasvizh (Nieśwież) Library collection

Collection of Gothic architectural drawings

‘Bayasanghori Shâhnâmeh’ (Prince Bayasanghor’s ‘Book of the Kings’)

Stone stele records of royal examinations of the Le and Mac dynasties (1442–1779)

The Hunminjeongum manuscript

The Malatesta Novello Library

The 42-line Gutenberg Bible, printed on vellum

Bibliotheca Corviniana

Library of the Cistercian Abbey of Clairvaux at the time of Pierre de Virey (1472)

Mainz Psalter at the Austrian National Library

Santa Fe Capitulations

Treaty of Tordesillas

Sound Toll Registers

Letter from Pêro Vaz de Caminha

Archives Insolvente Boedelskamer Antwerpen

Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque Lustrationes

Tabula Hungariae

Beatus Rhenanus Library

Sixteenth to eighteenth century pictographs from ‘Maps, drawings and illustrations’ Archives of Mexico

Negros y Esclavos archives

Collection of Mexican codices

Colección de lenguas indígenas

Bašagic collection of Islamic manuscripts

Collection of the Center of Documentation and Investigation of the Ashkenazi community in Mexico

Nicolaus Copernicus’ masterpiece ‘De revolutionibus libri sex’

Codices from the Oaxaca Valley

Châtelet de Paris banner register from the reign of Francis I (National Archives Y9, France)

Collection of the manuscripts of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

American colonial music: a sample of its documentary richness

Business archives of the Officina Plantiniana

Documentary fonds of Royal Audiencia Court of La Plata (RALP)

The Confederation of Warsaw of 28th of January 1573