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MEMORY OF THE WORLD

Contents

The book is ordered by the date the documents were recorded

Title Page MEMORY OF THE WORLD

Foreword

The emotional power of documents

World map

Memory of the World Register

MEMORY OF WORLD DOCUMENTS

The Hittite cuneiform tablets from Bogazköy

Rigveda

Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer

Commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb, Mount Lebanon

The Phoenician alphabet

Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon)

Ancient Naxi Dongba literature manuscripts

Mashtots Matenadaran ancient manuscripts collection

Saiva manuscripts in Pondicherry

Codex Argenteus – the ‘Silver Bible’

Codex Purpureus Beratinus

Vienna Dioscurides

Earliest Islamic (Kufic) inscription

Holy Koran Mushaf of Othman

Lucca’s historical diocesan archives

The Book of Kells

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

Tarikh-e-Khandan-e-Timuriyah

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

Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia Medica)

Tolstoy’s personal library and manuscripts, photo and film collection

Jesuits of America

Codex Techaloyan de Cuajimalpaz

Documentary heritage of enslaved peoples of the Caribbean

El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno

Uigwe: The royal protocols of the court of Joseon dynasty

Archives of the Dutch East India Company

Donguibogam: ‘Principles and Practice of Eastern Medicine’

Sejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals)

Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) archives

The IAS Tamil medical manuscript collection

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

Seungjeongwon Ilgi, the diaries of the royal secretariat

Book for the Baptism of Slaves (1636-1670)

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

Collection of 526 prints of university theses from 1637 to 1754

Biblioteca Palafoxiana

Hikayat Hang Tuah

Records of the Qing’s Grand Secretariat

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

The Atlas Blaeu–Van der Hem

Golden Lists of the Qing dynasty imperial examination

Letters from and to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Archives of the Danish overseas trading companies

Hudson’s Bay Company archival records

Arquivos dos Dembos / Ndembu archives

Woodblocks of the Nguyễn dynasty

Records of the French occupation of Mauritius

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

Collection of 18th-century maps of the Russian empire

Newspaper collections, Russian Federation

Collection of Arabic manuscripts and books

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Geneva and Neuchâtel collections

Stockholm City Planning Committee archives

Emanuel Swedenborg collection

Archives of the Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie

Linné collection

Mongolian Tanjur

Qing dynasty Yangshi Lei archives

The literary estate of Goethe in the Goethe and Schiller Archives

Ilseongnok: Records of Daily Reflections

The Endeavour journal of James Cook

National Education Commission archives

Documentary heritage of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

Colombeia: Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda’s archives

The Convict Records of Australia

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