Memory of the world.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Unesco.

Memory of the World Programme.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archival materials--Conservation and restoration.

Archival materials.

Manuscripts--Conservation and restoration.

Manuscripts.

Cultural property--Protection.

Cultural property.

Digital preservation.

History--Sources.

History.

Archives--Directories.

Archives.

Genre:

Directories.

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

607 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 21 cm

Other Title:

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

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : Unesco, 2012.

Summary:

A registry of the Unesco's Memory of the World Programme.

Contents:

The Hittite cuneiform tablets from Bogazköy 24

Rigveda 26

Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer 28

Commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb, Mount Lebanon 30

The Phoenician alphabet 32

Huang Di Nei Jing $$ (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon) 35

Ancient Naxi Dongba literature manuscripts 36

Mashtots Matenadaran ancient manuscripts collection 38

Saiva manuscripts in Pondicherry 40

Codex Argenteus - the 'Silver Bible' 42

Codex Purpureus Beratinus 44

Vienna Dioscurides 46

Earliest Islamic (Kufic) inscription 48

Holy Koran Mushaf of Othman 50

Lucca's historical diocesan archives 52

The Book of Kells 54

Laghukalacakratantrarajatika (Vimalaprabha) 59

The collection of the Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies 60

Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala'wan) 61

Georgian Byzantine manuscripts 62

Deeds of sultans and princes 65

Illuminated manuscripts from the Ottoman period produced in the monastery of Reichenau (Lake Constance) 66

Enina Apostolos, Old Bulgarian Cyrillic manuscript (fragment) of the 11th century 68

Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute manuscripts 70

Codex Suprasliensis 71

The works of Ibn Sina in the Süleymaniye Manuscript Library 72

Al-Tafhim li Awa'il Sana'at al-Tanjim 76

Ostromir Gospel (1056-1057) 78

Bayeux Tapestry 80

Archangel Gospel of 1092 83

Illuminated codices from the library of the Bratislava Chapter House 84

Medieval manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy 86

The Arnamagnæan manuscript collection 87

Miroslav Gospel-manuscript from 1180 90

Tabula Peutingeriana 92

Song of the Nibelungs, a heroic poem from medieval Europe 94

Magna Carta, issued in 1215 96

Printing woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana 98

MS. GKS 4 2°, vol. I-III, Biblia Latina. Commonly called 'The Hamburg Bible' 100

Hereford Mappa Mundi 102

The King Ram Khamhaeng inscription 104

Library Ets Haim-Livraria Montezinos 108

The manuscript of Ubayd Zakoni's Kulliyat and Hafez Sherozi's Gazalliyt 110

Collection of medieval manuscripts of the Czech Reformation 112

The Deed For Endowment: Rab' i-Rashidi (Rab i-Rashidi Endowment) 114

Batu Bersurat, Terengganu (Inscribed Stone of Terengganu) 116

La Galigo 117

Persian illustrated and illuminated manuscripts 118

Collection of Nezami's Panj Ganj 120

Baegun hwasang chorok buljo jikji simche yojeol (vol. II) 122

Khitrovo Gospel 123

The Annals of the Joseon dynasty 124

Kitab al-ibar, wa diwan al-mobtadae wa al-khabar 125

Slavonic publications in Cyrillic script of the 15th century 126

Treasures from National Archives and Library organizations 127

Corpo Cronológico (collection of manuscripts on the Portuguese discoveries) 128

Radziwills' Archives and Niasvizh (Nieswiez) Library collection 130

Collection of Gothic architectural drawings 134

'Bayasanghori Shâhnâmeh' (Prince Bayasanghor's 'Book of the Kings') 137

Stone stele records of royal examinations of the Le and Mac dynasties (1442-1779) 138

The Hunminjeongum manuscript 141

The Malatesta Novello Library 142

The 42-line Gutenberg Bible, printed on vellum 146

Bibliotheca Corviniana 149

Library of the Cistercian Abbey of Clairvaux at the time of Pierre de Virey (1472) 150

Mainz Psalter at the Austrian National Library 153

Santa Fe Capitulations 154

Treaty of Tordesillas 156

Sound Toll Registers 158

Letter from Pêro Vaz de Caminha 159

Archives Insolvente Boedelskamer Antwerpen 160

Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque Lustrationes 162

Tabula Hungariae 164

Beatus Rhenanus Library 165

Sixteenth to eighteenth century pictographs from 'Maps, drawings and illustrations' Archives of Mexico 168

Negros y Esclavos archives 169

Collection of Mexican codices 172

Colección de lenguas indígenas 174

Bašagic collection of Islamic manuscripts 176

Collection of the Center of Documentation and Investigation of the Ashkenazi community in Mexico 179

Nicolaus Copernicus' masterpiece 'De revolutionibus libri sex' 180

Codices from the Oaxaca Valley 183

Châtelet de Paris banner register from the reign of Francis I (National Archives Y9, France) 184

Collection of the manuscripts of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 186

American colonial music: a sample of its documentary richness 188

Business archives of the Officina Plantiniana 190

Documentary fonds of Royal Audiencia Court of La Plata (RALP) 191

The Confederation of Warsaw of 28th of January 1573 194

Tarikh-e-Khandan-e-Timuriyah 196

Administrative documents of Astan-e Quds Razavi in the Safavid era 198

Ben Cao Gang Mu $$ (Compendium of Materia Medica) 200

Tolstoy's personal library and manuscripts, photo and film collection 202

Jesuits of America 206

Codex Techaloyan de Cuajimalpaz 208

Documentary heritage of enslaved peoples ofthe Caribbean 209

El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno 212

Uigwe: The royal protocols of the court of Joseon dynasty 213

Archives of the Dutch East India Company 214

Donguibogam: 'Principles and Practice of Eastern Medicine' 218

Sejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals) 219

Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) archives 220

The IAS Tamil medical manuscript collection 222

Quebec Seminary collection, 1623-1800 (17th-19th centuries) 224

Seungjeongwon Ilgi, the diaries of the royal secretariat 227

Book for the Baptism of Slaves (1636-1670) 228

Mining maps and plans of the Main Chamber - Count Office in Banská Štiavnica 230

Collection of 526 prints of university theses from 1637 to 1754 232

Biblioteca Palafoxiana 233

Hikayat Hang Tuah 236

Records of the Qing's Grand Secretariat 239

Lu.'Altan Tobchi': Golden History written in 1651 240

The Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem 242

Golden Lists of the Qing dynasty imperial examination 244

Letters from and to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 246

Archives of the Danish overseas trading companies 248

Hudson's Bay Company archival records 250

Arquivos dos Dembos / Ndembu archives 253

Woodblocks of the Nguyen dynasty 254

Records of the French occupation of Mauritius 256

Privateering and the international relations of the Regency of Tunis in the 18th and 19th centuries 258

Collection of 18th-century maps of the Russian empire 260

Newspaper collections, Russian Federation 264

Collection of Arabic manuscripts and books 266

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Geneva and Neuchâtel collections 269

Stockholm City Planning Committee archives 270

Emanuel Swedenborg collection 272

Archives of the Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie 274

Linné collection 276

Mongolian Tanjur 279

Qing dynasty Yangshi Lei archives 280

The literary estate of Goethe in the Goethe and Schiller Archives 285

Ilseongnok: Records of Daily Reflections 286

The Endeavour journal of James Cook 288

National Education Commission archives 290

Documentary heritage of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata 292

Colombeia: Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda's archives 294

The Convict Records of Australia 298

Original Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789-1791) 302

Introduction of the decimal metric system, 1790-1837 306

The Leprosy Archives of Bergen 308

The Vienna City Library Schubert collection 311

The masterpieces of Fryderyk Chopin 314

Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales) 317

General Archive of the Nation: Writings of The Liberator Simón Bolívar 320

The Søren Kierkegaard archives 323

Final document of the Congress of Vienna 324

Registry of Slaves of the British Caribbean 1817-1834 326

Csoma archive of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 328

The Bleek collection 329

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9, D minor, op.

125 332

Royal archives (1824-1897) 334

Catecismo corticu pa uso di catolicanan di Curaçao (first catechism written in Papiamentu language) 336

Manuscripts and correspondence of Hans Christian Andersen 340

Records of the Indian indentured labourers 344

Farquharson's Journal 345

Epigraphic archives of Wat Pho 346

János Bolyai: Appendix, Scientiam Spatii absolute veram exhibens 348

Brahms collection 350

Memory of the Suez Canal 352

The Treaty of Waitangi 356

The Emperor's collection 358

Alfred Nobel family archives 360

Colonial archives, Benin 362

The A.E. Nordenskiöld Collection 364

'José Martí Pérez' fonds 366

Archival documents of King Chulalongkorn's transformation of Siam (1868-1910) 369

Arnold Schonberg estate 370

Jinnah papers (Quaid-i-Azam) 372

Dainu Skapis-Cabinet of folksongs 374

Silver men: West Indian labourers at the Panama Canal 376

Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House 379

Nikola Tesla's Archive 380

Benz patent of 1886 382

Correspondence of the late Sultan of Kedah (1882-1943) 385

The Historical Collections (1889-1955) of St Petersburg Phonogram Archives 386

German records of the National Archives 388

Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party to the people of Queensland 391

The 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition 394

Early cylinder recordings of the world's musical traditions (1893-1952) 397

Lumière films 398

Fonds of the Afrique occidentale française (AOF) 402

Historic ethnographic recordings (1898-1951) at the British Library 404

The historical collections (1899-1950) of the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv 406

Letter journals of Hendrik Witbooi 408

Russian posters of the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries 412

Collection of Latin American photographs of the 19th century 415

Presidential papers of Manuel L. Quezon 416

Sakubei Yamamoto collection 418

The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) 422

Desmet collection 425

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition (1910-1912) 428

Collection of Jewish musical folklore (1912-1947) 430

Original records of Carlos Gardel - Horacio Loriente collection (1913-1935) 432

Archives of the International Prisoners of War Agency, 1914-1923 434

The Battle of the Somme 438

Collection of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian émigré periodicals 1918-1945 442

League of Nations archives 1919-1946 443

Constantine collection 446

First flight across the South Atlantic Ocean in 1922 449

Kalman Tihanyi's 1926 patent application 'Radioskop' 452

Metropolis - Sicherungsstück Nr. 1: Negative of the restored and reconstructed version (2001) 454

C.L.R. James collection 456

Documentary heritage on the resistance and struggle for human rights in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1961 457

Sir William Arthur Lewis papers 458

Thor Heyerdahl archives 461

Ingmar Bergman archives 464

The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939), produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 466

Warsaw Ghetto archives (Emanuel Ringelblum archives) 470

Astrid Lindgren archives 474

The Appeal of 18 June 1940 476

Diaries of Anne Frank 478

Archive of Warsaw Reconstruction Office 482

Archives of the Literary Institute in Paris (1946-2000) 486

Federal Archives fonds 488

Audiovisual documents of the international antinuclear movement 'Nevada-Semipaiatinsk' 490

UNRWA photo and film archives of Palestinian refugees 492

Los Olvidados 494

Nita Barrow collection 496

The Archives of Terror 498

John Marshall Ju/'hoan bushman film and video collection, 1950-2000 500

Traditional music sound archives 502

Neighbours, animated, directed and produced by Norman McLaren in 1952 504

José Maceda collection 505

Derek Walcott collection 508

The Family of Man 510

Christopher Okigbo collection 512

Eric Williams collection 514

The Mabo case manuscripts 516

Original negative of the Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano 519

Construction and fall of the Berlin Wall and the Two-Plus-Four-Treaty of 1990 520

Criminal Court Case No. 253/1963 (The State versus N. Mandela and Others) 525

Network of information and counter information on the military regime in Brazil (1964-1985) 527

First Byurakan Survey (FBS or Markarian survey) 528

Aral Sea archival fonds 530

Landsat Program records: Multispectral Scanner (MSS) sensors 532

Human Rights Archive of Chile 538

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum archives 540

Human rights documentary heritage, 1976-1983 543

Liberation Struggle Living Archive Collection 544

Human rights documentary heritage, 1980 546

Twenty-One demands, Gdansk, August 1980 549

National Literacy Crusade 552

Radio broadcast of the Philippine People Power Revolution 554

The Baltic Way-Human chain linking three states in their drive for freedom 556.

Notes:

Entries ordered by the date recorded.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

ISBN:

9231042378

9789231042379

OCLC:

816513197