Memory of the World Register – Europe and North America
Introduction Albania's Codex Beratinusis a Greek uncial codex of the New Testament that has been dated paleographically to the 6th century.The Vienna Dioscurides of Austria can be considered as the most important pharmaceutical source of the Ancient World and was used throughout the Middle Age, Renaissance and in later centuries as a dictionary for medical practitioners.The Bayeux Tapestry from France is a 50 cm by 70 m (20 in by 230 ft) long embroidered cloth—not an actual tapestry—which explains the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England as well as the events of the invasion itself.Germany's 42-line Gutenberg Bibleis the first book printed in Europe with movable types. ''The Family of Man'', on permanent display in Luxembourg, is regarded by some as the "greatest photographic enterprise ever undertaken".Malatesta Novello Library.Gerhard Armauer Hansen discovered the causative agent of leprosy and worked at St. George's Hospital, now the hub of The Leprosy Archives of Bergen. ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'' is the seminal work on heliocentric theory and the masterpiece of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543).This Khitrovo Gospelgives a salient idea of the stage of the development of ancient Russian literature, of its book-writing schools and workshops and of the dissemination of the church Slavonic language.Serbia's Miroslav Gospel, a manuscript dating from around 1180 with miniatures of outstanding beauty, reflects the fusion of elements of the West (Italy) and the East (Byzantium).The Treaty of Tordesillasdivided the "newly discovered" lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal during the dawn of the Age of Discovery.The Wizard of Oz'' is a 1939 cinema classic. Here Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) arrives in Munchkinland.The Cabinet of Folksongs, a collection of almost 218,000 Latvian folksong textsThe '''International Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World-Programme''' includes inscriptions from Europe and North America. , the region has 274 (or 52%) inscriptions of the 432 total inscriptions included in the Register.The first inscriptions on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register were made in 1997.By creating a compendium of the world's documentary heritage – such as manuscripts, oral traditions, audio-visual materials, and library and archive holdings – the program aims to tap on its networks of experts to exchange information and raise resources for the preservation, digitization, and dissemination of documentary materials. Among the various properties in the Register include recordings of folk music; ancient languages and phonetics; aged remnants of religious and secular manuscripts; collective lifetime works of renowned giants of literature; science and music; copies of landmark motion pictures and short films; and accounts documenting changes in the world's political, economic, and social stage.
Number of inscriptions by country , the region has 274 (or 52%) inscriptions of the 432 total inscriptions included in the Register.+Number of inscriptions from Europe and North America RankCountryTotal number of inscriptions1Germany23United Kingdom23 (22 main + 1 additional)3Poland174Netherlands166Austria157Russia14 8 France1311Spain11United States1113Portugal1017Czech Republic8Denmark8Italy821Canada7Hungary7Sweden7Turkey726Israel6 (5 main + 1 additional)Norway6 31Belgium5Georgia5Switzerland538Armenia4Ukraine442Bulgaria3Finland3Latvia3Lithuania3Serbia3Slovakia364Azerbaijan2Belarus2Bosnia and Herzegovina2Iceland2Ireland284Albania1Croatia1Estonia1Greece1Luxembourg1Malta1Slovenia1Total'''274'''
Inscriptions by country/territory  Documentary heritageCountry/TerritoryCustodian(s), Location(s) Yearinscribed Reference Codex Purpureus BeratinusAlbaniaNational Archives of Albania, Tirana 2005 Mashtots Matenadaran ancient manuscripts collectionArmeniaMashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan 1997First Byurakan Survey (FBS or Markarian survey)ArmeniaByurakan Astrophysical Observatory ,Armenian National Academy of Sciences 2011 Collection of note manuscripts and film music of Composer Aram KhachaturianArmeniaHouse-Museum of Aram Khachaturian 2013 Collection of Works of the Composer Komitas VardapetArmeniaKomitas Museum-Institute 2023 Vienna DioscuridesAustriaAustrian National Library, Vienna 1997  Final Document of the Congress of Vienna AustriaAustrian State Archives, Vienna 1997 The Historical Collections (1899–1950) of the Vienna PhonogrammarchivAustriaAustrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1999 Papyrus Erzherzog RainerAustriaAustrian National Library, Vienna 2001 The Vienna City Library Schubert CollectionAustriaVienna City Library, Vienna 2001  The Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem of the Austrian National Library AustriaAustrian National Library, Vienna 2003 Brahms Collection AustriaSociety of Friends of Music, Vienna 2005 Collection of Gothic Architectural Drawings AustriaAcademy of Fine Arts, Vienna 2005 The ''Tabula Peutingeriana'' AustriaAustrian National Library, Vienna 2007 The Bibliotheca Corviniana Collection Austria,Belgium,France,Germany,Hungary,Italy*National Széchényi Library*Austrian National Library, Vienna*Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana*Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel*Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München*National Library of France, Paris*Koninklijke Bibliotheek Van Belgie 2005 Arnold Schönberg EstateAustriaArnold Schönberg Center Private Foundation 2011 Mainz Psalter at the Austrian National LibraryAustriaAustrian National Library, Vienna 2011  The Documents on the Semmering Railway from the Imperial & Royal Historical Museum of Austrian RailwaysAustriaTechnisches Museum Wien 2017 Medieval manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy AzerbaijanInstitute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan, National Academy of Sciences, Baku 2005 The copy of the manuscript of Mahammad Fuzuli's "divan"AzerbaijanInstitute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan, National Academy of Sciences 2017 Radziwills’ Archives and Niasvizh (Nieśwież) Library Collection Belarus,Finland,Lithuania,Poland,Russia,Ukraine*Central Archives of Historical Records, Warsaw*National Historical Archives of Belarus*State Historical Archives of Lithuania*Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine*Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Central Science Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus*National Library of Belarus*Presidential Library of the Republic of Belarus*Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences*Science Library of Moscow State University*National Library of Finland 2009 Business Archives of the Officina Plantiniana BelgiumMuseum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp 2001 Archives Insolvente Boedelskamer Antwerpen BelgiumMunicipal Archives Antwerp, Antwerp 2009 The Archives of the University of Leuven (1425-1797)Belgium*State Archives, Leuven*University Archives and Art Collections, KU Leuven 2013 Universal Bibliographic RepertoryBelgiumMundaneum asbl 2013 Manuscript collection of the Gazi Husrev-beg LibraryBosnia and HerzegovinaGazi Husrev-beg Library 2017 The Sarajevo Haggadah manuscriptBosnia and HerzegovinaNational Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2017 Enina Apostolos, a Cyrillic manuscript fragment of the 11th century in Old Bulgarian languageBulgariaSS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia 2011 Boril's SynodiconBulgariaSS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia 2017 Gospels of Tsar Ivan AlexanderBulgaria,United KingdomSS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia 2017 Hudson's Bay Company Archival records CanadaArchives of Manitoba, Winnipeg 2007 Quebec Seminary Collection, 1623-1800 (17th-19th centuries) CanadaMusée de la civilisation, Québec 2007 ''Neighbours'', animated, directed and produced by Norman McLaren in 1952 CanadaNational Film Board of Canada, Montréal 2009 The Discovery of Insulin and its Worldwide ImpactCanadaThomas Fisher Rare Book Library 2013 Marshall McLuhan: The Archives of the FutureCanada*Library and Archives Canada*Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library 2017 Mixed Traces and Memories of the continents - The Sound of the French people of AmericaCanadaCinémathèque québécoise 2017 Philosophical Nachlass of Ludwig WittgensteinCanada,Austria,Netherlands,United Kingdom*Trinity College Library, Cambridge*Trinity College Library, Cambridge*Bodleian Library, University of Oxford*Noord Hollands Archief*Bertrand Russell Archives, McMaster University Library, Hamilton  2017 Collection of medieval manuscripts of the Czech Reformation Czech RepublicNational Library of the Czech Republic, Prague 2007  Collection of Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian émigré periodicals 1918-1945 Czech RepublicNational Library of the Czech Republic, Prague 2007 Collection of 526 prints of university theses from 1637 to 1754Czech RepublicNational Library of the Czech Republic, Prague 2011 Libri Prohibiti: Collection of periodicals of Czech and Slovak Samizdat in the years 1948-1989Czech RepublicLibri Prohibiti Library 2013 Archives of Leoš JanáčekCzech RepublicDepartment of the History of Music, Moravian Museum 2017 Camocio MapsCzech Republic,Malta*Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague*Heritage Malta 2017 The Kynzvart Daguerreotype – The Birth of Modern Visual MediaCzech RepublicNational Heritage Institute 2017 The Linné Collection DenmarkDanish National Library of Sciences and Medicine, Copenhagen 1997 Manuscripts and correspondence of Hans Christian AndersenDenmarkRoyal Library, Copenhagen 1997 The Søren Kierkegaard ArchivesDenmarkRoyal Library, Copenhagen 1997 Archives of the Danish overseas trading companies DenmarkDanish National Archives, Copenhagen 1997 El Primer Nueva Coronica y Buen Gobierno DenmarkRoyal Library, Copenhagen 2007 Sound Toll Registers DenmarkDanish National Archives, Copenhagen 2007 MS. GKS 4 2°, vol. I-III, Biblia Latina. Commonly called "the Hamburg Bible", or "the Bible of Bertoldus"DenmarkRoyal Library, Copenhagen 2011 The Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection Denmark,Iceland*Arnamagnæan Institute, Dept. of Scandinavian Research, University of Copenhagen*Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík 2009 The Baltic Way - Human Chain Linking Three States in their Drive for Freedom Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania*National Archives of Estonia*Museum of the Popular Front of Latvia*Lithuanian Central State Archive 2009 The A.E. Nordenskiöld Collection FinlandUniversity Library, Helsinki 1997 Archive of the Skolt Sámi village of Suonjel SuenjelFinlandThe Sámi Archives 2015 Original Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789–1791) FranceNational Library of France, Paris 2003 Introduction of the decimal metric system, 1790–1837 FranceNational Historical Archives Centre, Paris 2005 Lumière Films FranceArchives Françaises du Film 2005 Bayeux Tapestry FranceWilliam the Conqueror Centre, Bayeux 2007 Library of the Cistercian Abbey of Clairvaux at the time of Pierre de Virey (1472) France*Médiathèque de l’Agglomération Troyenne*Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Montpellier*National Library of France, Paris*Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon	*Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève	*Université de Mons-Hainaut, Bibliothèque centrale	*British Library	*National Széchényi Library, Budapest  2009 The Beatus Rhenanus LibraryFranceHumanist Library, Sélestat 2011 Bannière Register at Chatelet, Paris, during the reign of François I (National Archives Y9, France)FranceNational Historical Archives Centre, Paris 2011 Louis Pasteur's ArchiveFrance*National Library of France, Paris*Academy of Sciences 2015 The Mappa mundi of AlbiFranceMédiathèque d'Albi Pierre-Amalric 2015 The Appeal of 18 June 1940 France,United Kingdom*Institut National de l’Audiovisuel 	*BBC*Sénat, Paris	*Musée de l’Ordre de la Libération	 2005 The moving picture shows of Émile ReynaudFrance,Czech Republic*Institut national de la propriété industrielle	*Conservatoire national des Arts et métiers	*Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée	*Cinémathèque Française	*National Technical Museum, Prague	 2015  Archives of FranceCommunity of Briance, Sud Haute-Vienne  2017 "Description of Georgian Kingdom" and the Geographical Atlas of Vakhushti BagrationiGeorgiaNational Archives of Georgia 2013 Georgian Byzantine ManuscriptsGeorgiaNational Centre of Manuscripts 2011 Manuscript Collection of Shota Rustaveli's Poem "Knight in the Panther's Skin"Georgia,United KingdomNational Centre of Manuscripts 2013 The Oldest Manuscripts Preserved at the National Archives of GeorgiaGeorgiaNational Archives of Georgia 2015 The Tetraevangelion-palimpsestGeorgiaNational Archives of Georgia 2017 Early cylinder recordings of the world's musical traditions (1893–1952) in the Berlin Phonogramm-ArchivGermanyMuseum of Ethnology, Berlin 1999 Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony n°9, d-minor, op.125GermanyState Library, Berlin 2001 The literary estate of Goethe in the Goethe and Schiller Archives GermanyGoethe and Schiller Archives, Weimar 2001 42-line Gutenberg Bible, printed on vellum, and its contemporary documentary backgroundGermanyGöttingen State and University Library, Göttingen 2001 ''Metropolis'' -Sicherungsstück Nr. 1: Negative of the restored and reconstructed version 2001GermanyFriedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Wiesbaden 2001 Illuminated manuscripts from the Ottonian period produced in the monastery of Reichenau (Lake Constance) GermanyBayerische Staatsbibliothek München 2003 ''Kinder-und Hausmärchen'' (''Children's and Household Tales'') GermanyBrother Grimm's Museum, Kassel 2005 Universalis Cosmographia (Waldseemüller map)Germany,United StatesLibrary of Congress, Washington D.C. 2005 Letters from and to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz within the collection of manuscript papers of Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGermanyGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library, Hannover 2007 ''Song of the Nibelungs'', a heroic poem from mediaeval Europe Germany* Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München*Abbey Archives and the Abbey Library of Saint Gallen* Regional Library of the State of Baden 2009 Patent DRP 37435 "Vehicle with gas engine operation" submitted by Carl Benz, 1886GermanyLandesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim 2011 Construction and Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Two-Plus-Four-Treaty of 1990GermanyState Archive of Hamburg 2011 Lorsch Pharmacopoeia (The Bamberg State Library, Msc.Med.1)GermanyBamberg State Library 2013 Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei, draft manuscript page and ''Das Kapital''. Erster Band, Karl Marx's personal annotated copyGermany,NetherlandsInternational Institute of Social History 2013 Nebra sky discGermanyHalle State Museum of Prehistory 2013 The "Golden Bull" – All seven originals and the "King Wenceslaus' luxury manuscript copy" of the Österreichische NationalbibliothekGermany,Austria*Austrian National Library, Vienna* Austrian State Archives, Vienna* Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg* Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv* Staatsarchiv Nürnberg* Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt* Institut für Stadtgeschichte (Stadtarchiv) 2013 Documents representing the beginning and the early development of the Reformation initiated by Martin LutherGermany*Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel*Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek*Anhaltische Landesbücherei Dessau*Forschungsbibliothek Gotha*Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar*Lutherhaus Wittenberg*Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg*Stadtbibliothek Worms*Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena*State Library, Berlin 2015 Autograph of h-Moll-Messe (Mass in B minor) by Johann Sebastian BachGermanyState Library, Berlin 2015 The Golden Letter of the Burmese King Alaungphaya to King George II of Great BritainGermany,United Kingdom,Myanmar* Department of Archaeology and National Museum, Naypyidaw* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library – State Library of Lower Saxony 2015 Al-Masaalik Wa Al-MamaalikGermany,Iran* The National Library and Archives of Iran, Tehran* The Gotha Research Library, Erfurt 2015 Frankfurt Auschwitz TrialGermanyHessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv 2017 Constitutio AntoninianaGermanyUniversitätsbibliothek Giessen 2017Derveni PapyrusGreeceArchaeological Museum of Thessaloniki 2015 Kálmán Tihanyi's 1926 Patent Application "Radioskop" HungaryNational Archives of Hungary, Budapest 2001 Tabula Hungariae Hungary,CroatiaNational Széchényi Library, Budapest 2007 János Bolyai: Appendix, scientiam spatii absolute veram exhibens. Maros-Vásárhelyini, 1832 HungaryLibrary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 2009 The Csoma Archive of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Science HungaryLibrary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 2009 Semmelweis' discoveryHungarySemmelweis Museum, Library and Archives of the History of Medicine 2013 Three documents related to the two most outstanding results of the work of Lorand EötvösHungaryLibrary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 2015 1703 Census of IcelandIcelandNational Archives of Iceland 2013 Book of KellsIrelandTrinity College Library 2011 The Irish Folklore Commission Collection 1935-1970IrelandNational Folklore Collection, Newman Building, University College Dublin 2017 Pages of Testimony Collection, Yad Vashem Jerusalem, 1954-2004IsraelYad Vashem 2013 Rothschild MiscellanyIsraelThe Israel Museum 2013 Aleppo CodexIsraelThe Israel Museum 2015 The Papers of Sir Isaac NewtonIsraelThe National Library of Israel 2015 Israel Folktale ArchivesIsraelDepartment of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, The University of Haifa 2017 The Malatesta Novello Library ItalyMalatesta Novello Library, Cesena 2005 The Historical Diocesan Archive of Lucca ItalyHistorical Diocesan Archive, Lucca 2011 The Newsreels and photographs of Istituto Nazionale LuceItalyIstituto Luce, Roma 2013 The Collection of Barbanera Almanacs (1762-1962) ItalyFondazione Barbanera 1762, Spello 2015 The Work of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún Italy,Mexico,Spain*Real Biblioteca de Madrid*Real Academia de la Historia*Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 2015 The Codex purpureus Rossanensis ItalyDiocesan Museum, Rossano 2015 Antônio Carlos GomesItaly,Brazil* Arquivo Nacional (AN) - Ministério da Justiça* Escola de Música da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro* Fundação Biblioteca Nacional* Museu Histórico Nacional* Museu Imperial* Museu da Universidade Federal do Pará 2015  Dainu skapis – Cabinet of FolksongsLatviaNational Library of Latvia, Riga 2001 ''The Family of Man''LuxembourgClervaux Museum, Clervaux 2003 Bibliothèque Ets Haim – Livraria Montezinos NetherlandsPortuguese-Jewish Seminary Ets Haim, Amsterdam 2003 Archives of the Dutch East India CompanyNetherlands,India,Indonesia,South Africa,Sri Lanka* Cape Town Archives Repository (office of the National Archives of South Africa)* Tamil Nadu Archives* Department of National Archives of Sri Lanka* Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia (National Archives of Indonesia)* Nationaal Archief (National Archives of the Netherlands) 2003 ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' by Anne FrankNetherlandsAnne Frank House, Amsterdam 2009 Desmet CollectionNetherlandsEYE Film Instituut 2011 The Leiden La Galigo manuscriptNetherlands,Indonesia* Fort Rotterdam, Makassar* Leiden University Library, Leiden 2011 Archive Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (MCC)Netherlands,Curacao,SurinameZeeuws Archief 2011 Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) archivesNetherlands,United Kingdom,United States,Ghana,Brazil,Guyana,Netherlands Antilles,Suriname*Albany County Hall of Records*Archivo Nashonal*Municipal Archives New York*Nationaal Archief*Nationaal Archief Surinamee*The National Archives-Kew*New York State Archives*National archives of Guyana 2011 Babad Diponegoro or Autobiographical Chronicle of Prince Diponegoro (1785-1855). A Javanese nobleman, Indonesian national hero and pan-IslamistNetherlands,Indonesia*National Library of Indonesia, Jakarta*Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies 2013 Selected data collections of the world's language diversity at the Language ArchiveNetherlandsThe Language Archive of the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics 2015 Utrecht PsalterNetherlandsUtrecht University 2015 The Archive of the Amsterdam Notaries 1578-1915NetherlandsAmsterdam City Archives 2017 Westerbork filmsNetherlandsNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision 2017 Aletta H. Jacobs PapersNetherlands,United StatesAtria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women's History 2017 First Catechism Written in Papiamentu Language Netherlands AntillesNational Archives of the Netherlands Antilles, Willemstad 2009 The Leprosy Archives of BergenNorwayCity Archives and Regional State Archives of Bergen, Bergen 2001 Henrik Ibsen: ''A Doll's House''NorwayNational Library of Norway, Oslo 2001 Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition (1910–1912)Norway*Norwegian Film Institute*National Library of Norway, Oslo 2005 Thor Heyerdahl's Archives (1914–2002)Norway*Kon-Tiki Museum*National Library of Norway, Oslo 2005 Sophus Tromholt CollectionNorwayBergen University Library 2013 The Castbergian Child Laws of 1915NorwayArchives of the Storting 2017 Nicolaus Copernicus' masterpiece ''De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium'' PolandJagiellonian University, Cracow 1999 Warsaw Ghetto Archives (Emanuel Ringelblum Archives)PolandJewish Historical Research Institute, Warsaw 1999  The Masterpieces of Fryderyk ChopinPolandThe Fryderyk Chopin Society, Warsaw 1999  The Confederation of Warsaw of 28 January 1573: Religious tolerance guaranteedPolandThe Central Archives of Historical Records, Warsaw 2003  Twenty-One Demands, Gdańsk, August 1980: The birth of the Solidarity trade union – a massive social movementPolandThe Polish Maritime Museum, Gdansk 2003  National Education Commission ArchivesPoland*Jagiellonian University Archives  Cracow*The Central Archives of Historical Records, Warsaw*Czartoryski Library*Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow 2007 Archives of the Literary Institute in Paris (1946–2000) PolandAssociation Institut Littéraire "Kultura", Paris 2009  Codex Suprasliensis – Mineia četia, Mart (The Supraśl Codex – Menology, March)Poland,Russia,Slovenia*National Library of Poland*National and University Library of Slovenia*Russian National Library, Saint Petersburg 2007 Archive of Warsaw Reconstruction OfficePolandState Archives of the Capital City of Warsaw 2011 Collections of the 19th century of the Polish Historical and Literary Society / Polish Library in Paris / Adam Mickiewicz MuseumPolandAssociation de la Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris 2013 Peace treaties (ahdnames) concluded from the mid-15th century to late-18th century between the Kingdom (or Republic) of Poland and the Ottoman EmpirePolandThe Central Archives of Historical Records, Warsaw 2013 The Book of HenrykówPolandKuria Metropolitalna Wrocławska 2015 Files and library of the Unity of the BrethrenPoland*State Archive in Poznań*Raczyński Library in Poznań*Kórnik Library of Polish Academy of Sciences 2015 Documents of Polish radio intelligence from the period of the Battle of Warsaw in 1920PolandCentral Military Archives of Poland 2017 Jürgen Stroop's ReportPolandInstitute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation 2017 The Act of the Union of Lublin documentPoland,Lithuania,Ukraine,Belarus,LatviaThe Central Archives of Historical Records, Warsaw 2017 Letter from Pêro Vaz de Caminha PortugalNational Archives, Lisbon 2005 Corpo Cronológico (Collection of Manuscripts on the Portuguese Discoveries) PortugalInstitute of National Archives, Lisbon 2007 First flight across the South Atlantic Ocean in 1922PortugalArquivo Histórico da Marinha – Biblioteca Central da Marinha  2011 Arquivos dos Dembos / Ndembu ArchivesPortugal,AngolaArquivo Nacional de Angola, Luanda 2011 Journal of the first voyage of Vasco da Gama to India, 1497-1499PortugalBiblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto 2013 Official Records of Macao During the Qing Dynasty (1693-1886)Portugal,ChinaTorre do Tombo National Archive, Alvalade, Lisbon 2017 Register Books of visas granted by Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux, Aristides Sousa Mendes (1939-1940)PortugalInstituto Diplomático do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros 2017  Archangel Gospel of 1092RussiaRussian State Library, Moscow 1997 Khitrovo GospelRussiaRussian State Library, Moscow 1997 Slavonic publications in Cyrillic script of the 15th century RussiaRussian State Library, Moscow 1997 Newspaper collectionsRussiaRussian State Library, Moscow 1997 Maps of the Russian empire and its collection of the 18th century RussiaRussian State Library, Moscow 1997  Russian posters of the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries RussiaRussian State Library, Moscow 1997 The Historical Collections (1889–1955) of St. Petersburg Phonogram ArchivesRussiaThe Institute of Russian Literature ( Pushkinsky Dom ) 2001 Ostromir Gospel (1056–1057)RussiaRussian National Library 2011 Tolstoy's Personal Library and Manuscripts, Photo and Film CollectionRussiaState Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana 2011 The Laurentian Chronicle 1377RussiaRussian State Library, Moscow 2013 The Sobornoye Ulozheniye of 1649RussiaRussian State Archives of Ancient Acts 2015 Album of Indian and Persian Miniatures from the 16th through the 18th Century and Specimens of Persian CalligraphyRussiaInstitute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences 2017 Nikola Tesla's Archive SerbiaNikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade 2003 Miroslav Gospel – Manuscript from 1180 SerbiaNational Museum, Belgrade 2005 Telegram of Austria-Hungary's declaration of war on Serbia on 28 July 1914SerbiaArchives of Serbia 2015 Illuminated Codices from the Library of the Bratislava Chapter House SlovakiaNational Archives, Bratislava 1997 Basagic Collection of Islamic ManuscriptsSlovakiaUniversity Library, Bratislava 1997 Mining maps and plans of the Main Chamber - Count Office in Banská ŠtiavnicaSlovakiaState Central Mining Archives 2007 Santa Fe CapitulationsSpainArchive of the Crown of Aragon, Barcelona 2009 Treaty of TordesillasSpain,Portugal*General Archive of the Indies, Seville*Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon 2007  (1448)SpainGirona Municipal Archive  2013 The Decreta of León of 1188 - The oldest documentary manifestation of the European parliamentary systemSpain*Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina de Sevilla*British Library*Biblioteca Nacional de España*Real Academia de la Historia*Biblioteca del Colegio de Santa Cruz de Valladolid 2013 Materials Related to the Keicho-era Mission to Europe Japan and SpainSpain,JapanSendai City Museum, Sendai 2013 Indigenous language vocabulary from the New World translated into SpanishSpainGeneral Archive of the Indies, Seville 2015 The Manuscripts of the Commentary to the Apocalypse (Beatus of Liébana) in the Iberian TraditionSpain,Portugal*Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon* Archive of the Crown of Aragon, Barcelona* Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal* Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial* Real Academia de la Historia* Archivo Histórico Nacional* Biblioteca Nacional de España* Museo Arqueológico Nacional* Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid 2015 Archives of Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Spanish Neurohistological SchoolSpainInstituto Cajal-CSIC 2017 The Codex Calixtinus of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral and other medieval copies of the Liber Sancti Jacobi: The Iberian origins of the Jacobian tradition in EuropeSpain,Portugal*Biblioteca Nacional de España*Archive of the Crown of Aragon, Barcelona*Universidad de Salamanca. Biblioteca General Histórica* Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal 2017 The General Archive of SimancasSpainArchivo General de Simancas 2017 Astrid Lindgren ArchivesSwedenThe Royal Library, Stockholm 2005 Emmanuel Swedenborg CollectionSwedenThe Royal Library, Stockholm 2005 Ingmar Bergman ArchivesSwedenSwedish Film Institute  2007 The Alfred Nobel Family ArchivesSweden*Regional Archives, Lund*National Archives, Stockholm 2007 Codex Argenteus – the ‘Silver Bible’SwedenUppsala University Library 2011 Stockholm City Planning Committee ArchivesSwedenStockholm City Archives 2011 Dag Hammarskjöld CollectionSwedenThe Royal Library, Stockholm 2017 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Geneva and Neuchâtel CollectionsSwitzerland*Bibliothèque de Genève*Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Neuchâtel*Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2011 The Montreux Jazz Festival: Claude Nobs' LegacySwitzerlandMontreux Jazz Festival Foundation 2013 Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (1916-1971)SwitzerlandMartin Bodmer Foundation 2015 Documentary heritage of the former Abbey of Saint Gall in the Abbey Archives and the Abbey Library of Saint GallSwitzerland*Abbey Archives and the Abbey Library of Saint Gallen*Zentralbibliothek Zürich*Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina*Gottfried Keller-Stiftung 2017 Statements made by Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations 1982 to 2015Switzerland(Docip- Indigenous Peoples' Centre for Documentation, Research and Information 2017 The Hittite cuneiform tablets from BogazköyTurkey*İstanbul Archaeological Museums*Anatolian Civilisations Museum 2001 Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute ManuscriptsTurkeyBoğaziçi University, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul 2001 The works of Ibn Sina in the TurkeyDirectorate of Turkish Manuscripts, Süleymaniye Manuscript Library 2003 Evliya Çelebi's "Book of Travels" in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library and the Süleymaniye Manuscript LibraryTurkey*Directorate of the Topkapı Palace Museum*Directorate of Turkish Manuscripts, Süleymaniye Manuscript Library 2013 The Old Assyrian Merchant Archives of KültepeTurkey*İstanbul Archaeological Museums*Anatolian Civilisations Museum*Kayseri Museum*Bursa Museum 2015 Compendium of the Turkic DialectsTurkeyMillet Manuscript Library 2017 The Piri Reis World Map (1513)TurkeyDirectorate of the Topkapı Palace Museum 2017 Collection of Jewish Musical Folklore (1912–1947)UkraineVernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Kyiv 2005 Documentary Heritage Related to accident at ChernobylUkraineState Archival Service of Ukraine 2017 ''The Battle of the Somme''United KingdomImperial War Museum, London. 2005 Hereford Mappa MundiUnited KingdomThe Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust, Hereford 2007 Magna Carta, issued in 1215United Kingdom*British Library*Lincoln Cathedral*Salisbury Cathedral 2009 Historic Ethnographic Recordings (1898 – 1951) at the British LibraryUnited KingdomBritish Library 2011 Membership Application Certificates (Candidates Circulars)United KingdomInstitution of Civil Engineers 2013 Arthur Bernard Deacon (1903–27) collection MS 90-98United Kingdom,VanuatuRoyal Anthropological Institute, London 2013 Autograph First World War Diary of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, 1914–1919.United KingdomNational Library of Scotland 2015 The Churchill PapersUnited KingdomChurchill College, Cambridge 2015 The West India Committee collectionUnited Kingdom,Antigua and Barbuda,Jamaica,Anguilla,MontserratSidney Martin Library 2015 The Gertrude Bell ArchiveUnited KingdomRobinson Library, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne 2017 The Orwell PapersUnited KingdomUniversity College London 2017 United Kingdom,BarbadosGloucestershire Archives 2017 The ‘Shakespeare Documents’, a documentary trail of the life of William ShakespeareUnited Kingdom,United States*The National Archives-Kew*The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust*Holy Trinity Church Parish Office, Stratford-upon-Avon*Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council*Folger Shakespeare Library*Diocese of Worcester*High Court, Royal Courts of Justice*College of Arms*London Metropolitan Archives 2017 ''The Wizard of Oz'' (Victor Fleming 1939), produced by Metro-Goldwyn-MayerUnited StatesGeorge Eastman House, Rochester 2007 John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950–2000United StatesSmithsonian Institution, Suitland 2009 Landsat Program records: Multispectral Scanner (MSS) sensorsUnited StatesU.S. Geological Survey 2011 Silver Men: West Indian Labourers at the Panama CanalUnited States,United Kingdom,Barbados,Jamaica,Panama,Saint Lucia*Barbados Museum and Historical Society, St. Michael*Bahamas Archives, Nassau*Jamaican Archives and Records Department*National Library of Jamaica*St. Lucia National Archives*Museo del Canal Interoceánico de Panamá*Mrs. Primrose Mallet-Harris, Mallet Court*The National Archives-Kew*The National Archives and Records Administration*The George A. Smathers Library 2011 Permanent Collection of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers ProjectUnited StatesEleanor Roosevelt Papers Project 2013 Moses and Frances Asch Collection. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian InstitutionUnited StatesSmithsonian Institution, Suitland 2015 The Villa Ocampo Documentation CenterUnited States,Argentina*UNESCO Villa Ocampo*Harvard College Library, Harvard University 2017
See also *UK Memory of the World Register
Notes A. Names and spellings provided are based on the official list released by the Memory of the World Programme.
References
External links *  UNESCO Memory of the World Programme official website*  UNESCO Memory of the World International Register – Europe and North America