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American colonial music: a sample of its documentary richness *

Croatia

Tabula Hungariae *

Cuba

‘José Martí Pérez’ fonds

Original negative of the Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano

Curaçao

Archives of the Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie *

Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) archives *

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

Czech Republic

Collection of medieval manuscripts of the Czech Reformation

Collection of 526 prints of university theses from 1637 to 1754

Collection of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian émigré periodicals 1918–1945

Denmark

The Arnamagnæan manuscript collection *

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

Sound Toll Registers

El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno

Archives of the Danish overseas trading companies

Linné collection

The Søren Kierkegaard archives

Manuscripts and correspondence of Hans Christian Andersen

Dominica

Registry of Slaves of the British Caribbean 1817–1834 *

Dominican Republic

Book for the Baptism of Slaves (1636-1670)

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

Egypt

Deeds of sultans and princes

Persian illustrated and illuminated manuscripts

Memory of the Suez Canal

Estonia

The Baltic Way – Human chain linking three states in their drive for freedom *

Ethiopia

Treasures from National Archives and Library organizations

Finland

Radziwills’ Archives and Niasvizh (Nieśwież) Library collection *

The A.E. Nordenskiöld Collection

Fiji

Records of the Indian indentured labourers *

France

Bayeux Tapestry

Bibliotheca Corviniana *

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

Beatus Rhenanus Library

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

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

Introduction of the decimal metric system, 1790–1837

Lumière films

The Appeal of 18 June 1940 *

Georgia

Georgian Byzantine manuscripts

Germany

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

Song of the Nibelungs, a heroic poem from medieval Europe

The 42-line Gutenberg Bible, printed on vellum

Bibliotheca Corviniana *

Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque Lustrationes *

Letters from and to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The literary estate of Goethe in the Goethe and Schiller Archives

Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9, D minor, op. 125

Benz patent of 1886

Early cylinder recordings of the world’s musical traditions (1893–1952)

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

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

Ghana

Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) archives *

Guyana

Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) archives *

Records of the Indian indentured labourers *

Hungary

Bibliotheca Corviniana *

Tabula Hungariae *

Csoma archive of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

János Bolyai: Appendix, Scientiam Spatii absolute veram exhibens

Kalman Tihanyi’s 1926 patent application ‘Radioskop’

Iceland

The Arnamagnæan manuscript collection *

India

Rigveda

Saiva manuscripts in Pondicherry

Laghukālacakratantrarājatikā (Vimalaprabhā)

Tarikh-e-Khandan-e-Timuriyah

Archives of the Dutch East India Company *

The IAS Tamil medical manuscript collection

Indonesia

La Galigo *

Archives of the Dutch East India Company *

Iran

Al-Tafhim li Awa’il Sana’at al-Tanjim

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

Collection of Nezami’s Panj Ganj

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

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

Ireland

The Book of Kells

Italy

Lucca’s historical diocesan archives.

The Malatesta Novello Library

Bibliotheca Corviniana *

Jamaica

Registry of Slaves of the British Caribbean 1817–1834 *

Silver men: West Indian labourers at the Panama Canal *

Japan

Sakubei Yamamoto collection

Kazakhstan

Collection of the manuscripts of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

Audiovisual documents of the international antinuclear movement ‘Nevada-Semipalatinsk’

Aral Sea archival fonds

Korea (Republic of )

Printing woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana

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

The Annals of the Joseon dynasty

The Hunminjeongum manuscript

Uigwe: The royal protocols of the court of Joseon dynasty

Donguibogam: ‘Principles and Practice of Eastern Medicine’

Seungjeongwon Ilgi, the diaries of the royal secretariat

Ilseongnok: Records of Daily Reflections

Human rights documentary heritage, 1980

Latvia

Dainu Skapis – Cabinet of folksongs

The Baltic Way – Human chain linking three states in their drive for freedom *

Lebanon

Commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb, Mount Lebanon

The Phoenician alphabet

Lithuania

Radziwills’ Archives and Niasvizh (Nieśwież) Library collection *

The Baltic Way – Human chain linking three states in their drive for freedom *

Luxembourg

The Family of Man

Madagascar

Royal archives (1824–1897)

Malaysia

Batu Bersurat, Terengganu (Inscribed Stone of Terengganu)

Sejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals)

Hikayat Hang Tuah

Correspondence of the late Sultan of Kedah (1882–1943)

Mauritius

Records of the French occupation of Mauritius

Mexico

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

Collection of Mexican codices

Colección de lenguas indígenas

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

Codices from the Oaxaca Valley

American colonial music: a sample of its documentary richness *

Codex Techaloyan de Cuajimalpaz

Peru

Biblioteca Palafoxiana

Los Olvidados

Mongolia

Lu. ‘Altan Tobchi’: Golden History written in 1651

Mongolian Tanjur

Morocco

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

Namibia

Letter journals of Hendrik Witbooi

Netherlands

Library Ets Haim–Livraria Montezinos

La Galigo *

Archives of the Dutch East India Company *

Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) archives *

Archives of the Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie *

Desmet collection

Diaries of Anne Frank

New Zealand

The Treaty of Waitangi

The 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition

Nicaragua

National Literacy Crusade

Norway

The Leprosy Archives of Bergen

Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House

Roald Amundsen’s South Pole Expedition (1910–1912)

Thor Heyerdahl archives

Pakistan

Jinnah papers (Quaid-i-Azam)

Panama

Silver men: West Indian labourers at the Panama Canal *

Paraguay

The Archives of Terror

American colonial music: a sample of its documentary richness *