World Document Heritage List
This page lists the entries in the list of the world document heritage maintained by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World (MOW) program, sorted by country . Since the last meeting of the committee in 2017, the list of the world document heritage comprises 427 documents or collections of documents.
The number at the beginning of each line indicates the year of inclusion in the World Document Heritage.
A.
Egypt
- 1997 - Heritage of the Suez Canal , Cultural Department, Egyptian Embassy, Paris
- 2005 - Documents of the Egyptian Sultans and Princes, Egyptian National Archives, Cairo
- 2007 - Illustrated and illuminated Persian manuscripts, 14. – 19. Century, Egyptian National Archives, Cairo
- 2013 - Mameluke Koran manuscripts from the Egyptian National Library , Cairo
Albania
- 2005 - Codex Purpureus Beratinus, two Gospel manuscripts on purple parchment leaves, State Archives in Tirana; firstly a Greek manuscript of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark on 190 sheets (6th century), secondly an illustrated manuscript of the Gospels of the New Testament on 430 sheets (9th century).
Algeria
- 2017 - Al – Mustamlah Min Kitab Al – Takmila , collection of biographies, original manuscript from the 14th century, National Library of Algeria, Algiers
Angola
- 2011 - Ndembu Archives or Arquivos dos Dembos (together with Portugal)
Anguilla
- 2016 - The West India Committee collection ; Archives of the charity 'West India Committee' (together with Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, Montserrat and the United Kingdom)
Antigua and Barbuda
- 2016 - The West India Committee collection ; Archives holdings of the charity 'West India Committee' (together with Anguilla, Jamaica, Montserrat and the United Kingdom)
Argentina
- 1997 - Documents of the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata , 18.-19. Century, National Archives, Buenos Aires
- 2007 - Documentation on human rights violations between 1976 and 1983
- 2017 - The Villa Ocampo Documentation Center , private library and archival material of the writer Victoria Ocampo (together with the United States)
Armenia
- 1997 - Manuscript collection of Mashtots Matenadaran , Yerevan , old Armenian manuscripts and outstanding examples of Armenian miniatures
- 2011 - First research results of the Byurakan Observatory from the years 1965–1980
- 2013 - Collection of sheet music manuscripts and film music by the composer Aram Khachaturian
Azerbaijan
- 2005 - Medieval Manuscript Collection on Medicine and Pharmacy, National Academy of Sciences, Baku
- 2017 - Manuscript copy of the Divan by Muhammad Fuzūlī from 1572, Baku
Australia
- 2001 - James Cook's Logs , 1768–1771, National Library of Australia, Canberra
- 2001 - “ Mabo ” Trial Manuscripts, 1992, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Judicial Judgment on Indigenous Land Rights
- 2007 - " The Story of the Kelly Gang " (1906), 1st feature film in the world, 1st screening December 26, 1906, original running time approx. 70 minutes, rudimentary preserved
- 2007 - Convict Logs: Written records of the deportation of 165,000 British convicts to Australia between 1788 and 1868
- 2009 - Queensland Labor Party Manifesto for the People of Queensland (9 September 1892)
- 2017 - Sydney Harbor glass plate negatives; three giant glass plate negatives from 1875, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Ethiopia
- 1997 - Treasures of the National Archives and the Library Association of Ethiopia, 14. – 20. Century, National Archives and National Library, Addis Ababa
B.
Bahamas
- 2009 - Diary of the plantation owner Charles Farquharson for the years 1831 and 1832
- 2009 - British Caribbean Slave Register, 1817–1834 (shared with Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom)
Bangladesh
- 2017 - Speech of March 7, 1971 by Mujibur Rahman on independence from Bangladesh
Barbados
- 2003 - Documentary Legacy of the Enslaved People of the Caribbean, 17. – 19. Century
- 2009 - Archives Collection from the West Indian Federation , 1958–1962
- 2009 - Nita Barrow Collection, 1980–1990
- 2011 - The Silver Men document collection on the migration of workers from the West Indies in the construction of the Panama Canal (jointly with Jamaica, Panama, Saint Lucia, the United Kingdom and the United States)
- 2015 - West Indian Commission of the Caribbean Community
- 2017 - An African Song or Chant from Barbados (together with the United Kingdom)
Belgium
- 2001 - Officina Plantiniana business archive, Plantin-Moretus Museum , 1555–1876, Antwerp
- 2005 - Renaissance library of Mathias Corvinus - Bibliotheca Corviniana , 15th century (together with Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Hungary)
- 2009 - Archives of the insolvent Boedelskamer Antwerp, 1500-1800
- 2013 - Archives of the old University of Leuven (1425–1797)
- 2013 - 19th century work by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine to develop a new type of library catalog , the Répertoire Bibliographique Universel .
Belize
- 2009 - British Caribbean Slave Register, 1817–1834 (shared with the Bahamas, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom)
Benin
- 1997 - Colonial Archives, National Archives, Porto-Novo
Bolivia
- 2007 - American Colonial Music, 16.-18. Century, National Archives (Biblioteca Nacional de Bolivia), Sucre (together with Colombia, Mexico, Peru)
- 2011 - Collection of documents by the Real Audiencia de Charcas from 1561 to 1825, National Archives (Biblioteca Nacional de Bolivia), Sucre
- 2013 - Documentary collection on the life and work of Ernesto Che Guevara (together with Cuba), Archives of the Central Bank of Bolivia, La Paz (for Bolivia)
- 2013 - Collection of ecclesiastical music manuscripts in the Cathedral of La Plata
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2017 - The Sarajevo Haggaddah manuscript
- 2017 - Manuscript collection of the Gazi Husrev Beg library in Sarajevo
Brazil
- 2003 - Imperial Collections of Foreign and Brazilian Photographs, 19th century, National Archives of Brazil , Brasília
- 2011 - Archives of the Dutch West India Company (jointly with Ghana, Guyana, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, the United Kingdom and the United States)
- 2011 - Network of propaganda and counter-propaganda to the military regime in Brazil (1964–1985)
- 2013 - Documents on Emperor Pedro II's travels through Brazil and abroad
- 2013 - Oscar Niemeyer architecture archive (almost 9,000 documents, sketches, drawings)
- 2015 - Iconographic and cartographic representations of the Triple Alliance War (together with Uruguay)
- 2015 - Fundo Comitê de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos para os Países do Cone Sul (CLAMOR) - Documents on the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the South Cone (together with Uruguay)
- 2017 - Documents by the composer Antonio Carlos Gomes (together with Italy)
- 2017 - Collection Educator Paulo Freire , documents by educator Paulo Freire
- 2017 - Nise da Silveira Personal Archive , the personal archive of the psychiatrist Nise da Silveira
Bulgaria
- 2011 - Enina Apostolos , fragment of a religious text in Cyrillic script from the 11th century, National Library of Saints Cyril and Methodius , Sofia
- 2017 - Synodicon of King Boril, 14th century
- 2017 - Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander (with the United Kingdom)
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Chile
- 2003 - Human rights archive on the military dictatorship , 1973–1989, Santiago de Chile (part of the collection of the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos )
- 2003 - Record of the Jesuits of America, May 17-18 Century, National Archives ( Biblioteca Nacional de Chile ), Santiago de Chile
- 2013 - Collection of printed folk poetry Lira popular , National Archives (Biblioteca Nacional de Chile) and Universidad de Chile , Santiago de Chile
People's Republic of China
- 1997 Traditional Chinese Music Collection, Music Research Institute of the Academy of Arts of China , Beijing
- 1999 - Files of the Grand Qing Secretariat ( Chinese 清朝 內閣 秘 本 檔案 , Pinyin Qīngcháo nèigé mìběn dàng'àn ), 17th century, First Historical Archive of China, Palace Museum, Beijing
- 2003 - Old Naxi Dongba literature manuscripts, Lijiang
- 2005 - Golden Lists of the palace examinations of Qing ( Chinese 清朝金榜 , Pinyin Qīngcháo jīn bǎng ), 17th century.
- 2007 - Archives of the Yangshi Lei Palaces from the Qing Dynasty, 17. – 20. Century
- 2011 - Bencao gangmu ( Chinese本草綱目 / 本草纲目, Pinyin Běncǎo Gāngmù, 'The Book of Healing Herbs'), a historical book about Chinese herbs and medicinal drugs from the 16th century
- 2011 - Huangdi neijing (新刊 黄帝内经) the "Book of the Yellow Emperor on Internal Medicine", one of the oldest standard works of Chinese medicine
- 2013 - Qiaopi and Yinxin letters (侨 批 档案), letters from overseas Chinese to China
- 2013 - Tibet-relevant files from archives of the Yuan dynasty (元代 档案 中 有关 西藏 归属 问题 的 档案)
- 2015 - Documents on the Nanjing Massacre (侵华 日军 南京 大 屠杀 相关 专题 档案 五 组)
- 2017 - Silk Production Archives in Suzhou (Jiangsu)
- 2017 - Oracle bones with inscriptions from the site near Anyang
- 2017 - Collection of official files on Macau from the time of the Qing Dynasty (1693–1886) (together with Portugal)
Costa Rica
- 2017 - Decree Abolishing the Army in Costa Rica
- 2017 - Archives of the Central American Court of Justice , the first international court of justice
Curacao
- 2011 - Archive of the Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (together with the Netherlands and Suriname)
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Denmark
- 1997 - Søren Kierkegaard Archives, Manuscripts Department of the Royal Library, Copenhagen
- 1997 - Linnaeus Collection , publications by and about Carl von Linné and his students, Danish National Library for Science and Medicine, Copenhagen
- 1997 - Hans Christian Andersen's manuscripts and letters , Manuscript Department of the Royal Library, Copenhagen
- 1997 - Archives of Danish Overseas Trading Companies, National Archives of Denmark, Copenhagen
- 2007 - Sundzoll Register, since the 15th century, Danish National Archives, Copenhagen
- 2007 - El Primer Nueva Coronica y Buen Gobierno document collection , Royal Danish Library , Copenhagen
- 2009 - Manuscripts from the Arnamagna Collection (together with Iceland), since the 12th century, Arnamagna Institute, Reykjavík
- 2011 - Richly illustrated Hamburg Bible (also Bertoldus Bible ) from 1255 (MS. GKS 4 2 °), Danish Royal Library, Copenhagen
Germany
- 1999 - Early recordings of world musical traditions (1893–1952), Berlin Phonogram Archive , Völkerkundemuseum , Berlin
- 2001 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9, D minor, op.125 , Staatsbibliothek , Berlin, and Beethoven-Haus , Bonn
- 2001 - Goethe's literary estate, Goethe and Schiller Archive , Weimar
- 2001 - Gutenberg Bible , around 1450, Lower Saxony State and University Library , Göttingen
- 2001 - " Metropolis " (1927), silent film by Fritz Lang , Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation , Wiesbaden
- 2003 - Reichenau manuscripts , 10. – 11. Century, u. a. Codex Egberti ( Trier City Library ), Bamberg Apocalypse ( Bamberg State Library ) and Gero Codex ( Darmstadt University and State Library )
- 2005 - Children's and Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm
- 2005 - Waldseemüller map from 1507, in the Library of Congress , Washington, DC since 2003 (jointly with the United States)
- 2005 - Renaissance library of Mathias Corvinus - Bibliotheca Corviniana , 15th century (together with Belgium, France, Italy, Austria and Hungary)
- 2007 - Correspondence from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Lower Saxony State Library , Hanover
- 2009 - Nibelungenlied , the three main manuscripts Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , Munich ( Hs. A ) / Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen ( Hs. B ) / Badische Landesbibliothek , Karlsruhe ( Hs. C )
- 2011 - Two-plus-four contract and 14 other documents on the construction and fall of the Berlin Wall
- 2011 - Benz patent from 1886
- 2013 - Archives of the International Tracing Service
- 2013 - Nebra Sky Disc
- 2013 - Lorsch Pharmacopoeia
- 2013 - Writings of Karl Marx ( Manifesto of the Communist Party and Das Kapital. Volume I ) (together with the Netherlands)
- 2013 - Golden Bull (together with Austria)
- 2015 - Selected collections of global linguistic diversity in the language archive of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics , Nijmegen (together with the Netherlands)
- 2015 - Early Writings of the Reformation Movement
- 2015 - Manuscript of the B minor Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach
- 2015 - Golden Letter from 1756, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library , Hanover (together with Myanmar and the United Kingdom)
- 2015 - Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-mamalik from al-Istachri (together with Iran)
- 2017 - audio documents and trial files of the first Auschwitz trial
- 2017 - Giessen papyrus of the Constitutio Antoniniana
Dominica
- 2009 - British Caribbean Slave Register, 1817–1834 (shared with the Bahamas, Belize, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom)
Dominican Republic
- 2009 - Book of Slave Baptisms (1636-1670)
- 2009 - Document Heritage on Human Rights Development in the Dominican Republic, 1930–1961
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Ecuador
- 2015 - Documentary Legacy of the Salesian Apostolic Vicariate in the Ecuadorian Amazon from 1890–1930, Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural, Quito
El Salvador
- 2017 - Archive collection by and about Ignacio Ellacuría : Historical Reality and Liberation , Societas Jesu , Province of Central America, El Salvador
Estonia
- 2009 - documents on the Baltic Way - human chain on August 23, 1989, which connects the three states in their desire for freedom (together with Latvia and Lithuania)
F.
Fiji
- 2011 - Records of the contract workers from British India (together with Guyana, Suriname, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago)
Finland
- 1997 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Collection, University Library, Helsinki
- 2009 - Radzwill Archives and Collection of the Njaswisch Library (Nieśwież), 15. – 20. Century (together with Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus)
- 2015 - Archives of the Skolt Sámi
France
- 2003 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789–1791), Bibliothèque nationale de France , Paris
- 2005 - Radio broadcast of Charles de Gaulle's appeal for French resistance to the German invasion, June 18, 1940 (the June 18 appeal ) (jointly with the United Kingdom)
- 2005 - Films by the Lumière brothers
- 2005 - Documents on the Introduction of the Metric Decimal System , 1790–1837
- 2005 - Renaissance library of Mathias Corvinus - Bibliotheca Corviniana , 15th century (together with Belgium, Germany, Italy, Austria and Hungary)
- 2007 - Bayeux Tapestry , 11th century, Bayeux
- 2009 - Library of the Clairvaux Cistersian Abbey at the time of Pierre de Virey, 1472
- 2011 - Library of Beatus Rhenanus , humanist library in Schlettstadt
- 2011 - Collection of laws, instructions and other texts (La série des bannières du Châtelet) under the reign of Francis I from the Châtelet de Paris , Archives nationales , Paris
- 2015 - Louis Pasteur Archives
- 2015 - Mappa mundi d'Albi , a non-symbolic and non-abstract world map from the 8th century
- 2015 - Light plays by Émile Reynaud from 1892. (together with the Czech Republic)
- 2017 - Père Castor -Archives by Paul Faucher , author and editor of children's literature and games, about which ideas of reform pedagogy were widely disseminated.
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Georgia
- 2011 - Byzantine manuscripts from Georgia
- 2013 - Manuscript collection for the work The Warrior in the Tiger Skin by Shota Rustaveli (together with the United Kingdom)
- 2013 - “Description of the Kingdom of Georgia ” and atlas by Vakhushti Bagrationi
- 2015 - Oldest manuscripts kept in the National Archives of Georgia
- 2017 - Tetraevangeliar palimpsest, contains the Gospels in three stages of Georgian development (first version from the 9th, first re-description 12th-13th and second re-description 13th-18th centuries), Georgian State Archives
Ghana
- 2011 - Archives of the Dutch West India Company (together with Brazil, Guyana, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, the United Kingdom and the United States)
Greece
- 2015 - Derveni-Papyrus - The oldest “book” in Europe
Guatemala
- 2017 - Recordación Florida of the historian and poet Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán from 1690 with a source analysis of reports of indigenous inhabitants, Central American Main Archives, Guatemala
Guyana
- 2011 - Archives of the Dutch West India Company (together with Brazil, Ghana, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, the United Kingdom and the United States)
- 2011 - Records of the contract workers from British India (together with Fiji, Suriname, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago)
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India
- 1997 - Tamil Medical Manuscript Collection, Institute for Asian Studies, Tamil Nadu
- 2003 - Archives of the Dutch East India Company , Chennai (together with Indonesia, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, South Africa)
- 2005 - Shivaite manuscripts from Pondicherry , Institut Français de Pondichéry and École française d'Extrême-Orient , Pondicherry
- 2007 - 30 manuscripts of the Rigveda - oldest part of Hindu scriptures, 1700–1100 BC Chr. Bhandarkar Institute, Pune
- 2011 - laghukālacakratantrarājatikā (Vimalaprabhā) manuscripts on astrology and astronomy
- 2011 - Tarikh-E-Khandan-E-Timuriyah manuscripts, which are richly illustrated and tell the story of the Timurids
- 2013 - Shāntinātha Charitra, the biographies of Shantinatha , a spiritual leader of Jainism from the 14th century
- 2017 - Gilgit manuscripts, Buddhist scriptures written on birch bark from the Gupta period or "Later Gupta" (5th - 6th centuries), are considered to be the oldest surviving manuscripts in India
- 2017 - Maitreyayvarakarana, Buddhist palm leaf manuscript from the 10th century
Indonesia
- 2003 - Archives of the Dutch East India Company , Jakarta (together with India, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, South Africa)
- 2011 - La Galigo , kept in the University Library in Leiden (together with the Netherlands)
- 2013 - Autobiographical writings Babad Diponegoro of the Javanese freedom fighter Diponegoro (together with the Netherlands)
- 2015 - Manuscripts of the Nāgarakrĕtāgama (Description of the Land, 1365), Karangasem Cultural Institute, Bali
- 2015 - Archives of the Afro-Asiatic Conference of Bandung (1955)
- 2017 - Archives of the restoration of Borobudur
- 2017 - Archive of the 2004 tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean (together with Sri Lanka)
- 2017 - Manuscripts on the Stories of Prince Panji (shared with Cambodia, the Netherlands, Malaysia and the United Kingdom)
Iran
- 2007 - Bayasanghori Shāhnāme (Prince Bayasanghor's Book of Kings), 1430, the only remaining copy of the Iranian national epic, Tehran
- 2007 - Rab 'I Rashidi manuscript from the 13th century, Tabriz
- 2009 - Administrative documents of Astana Quds Rezavi during the Safavid period , 1589–1735
- 2011 - Al-Tafhim li Awa'il Sana'at al-Tanjim
- 2011 - Collection of Nezami's Panj Ganj
- 2013 - Collection of selected maps of Iran from the time of the Qajar dynasty (1779–1926)
- 2013 - Dhakira – yi Kharazmshahi ("Treasures for the King of Khorezmia"), a medical encyclopedia by Ismail Jorjani
- 2015 - Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-mamalik from al-Istachri (together with Germany)
- 2015 - Kulliyyāt-i Saʽdi
- 2017 - Two manuscript copies of Jāme 'al-Tavarikh by Rashīd ad-Dīn (early 14th century, manuscript copies from the 16th and 17th centuries), Royal Library, Tehran
Ireland
- 2011 - Book of Kells at Trinity College , Dublin
- 2017 - Collection of the Irish Folklore Commission from 1935-1970
Iceland
- 2009 - Manuscripts of the Arnamagnae Collection (together with Denmark), since the 12th century, Arnamagnae Institute, Reykjavík
- 2013 - Documents on the first census in Iceland in 1703, National Archives of Iceland, Reykjavík
Israel
- 2013 - “ Rothschild Miscellanea ”, an illuminated Hebrew manuscript from the Italian Renaissance, Israel Museum , Jerusalem
- 2013 - “Memorial Sheets” in the Hall of Names in Yad Vashem , Jerusalem
- 2015 - Codex of Aleppo , Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 2015 - Collection of Isaac Newton's writings on theological and alchemical subjects, National Library of Israel , Jerusalem
- 2017 - Israeli Folk Tales Archive, a collection of folk tales by Jewish immigrants from all over the world, as well as by population groups in the area of Israel, Haifa University
Italy
- 2005 - Renaissance library of Mathias Corvinus - Bibliotheca Corviniana , 15th century (together with Belgium, Germany, France, Austria and Hungary)
- 2005 - Novello Malatesta Library ( Malatestiana ), Cesena
- 2011 - Early medieval documents from the Lucca diocesan archives
- 2013 - Stock of newsreels and photos of the Istituto Luce
- 2015 - Barbanera -Almanac collection, Fondazione Barbanera 1762, Spello
- 2015 - Codex purpureus Rossanensis , Diocesan Museum, Rossano
- 2015 - work by Bernardino de Sahagún . (together with Mexico and Spain)
- 2017 - Archive collection on Antonio Carlos Gomes , composer between two worlds (together with Brazil)
J
Jamaica
- 2009 - British Caribbean Slave Register, 1817–1834 (shared with the Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom)
- 2011 - The Silver Men document collection on the migration of workers from the West Indies during the construction of the Panama Canal (jointly with Barbados, Panama, Saint Lucia, the United Kingdom and the United States)
- 2016 - The West India Committee collection ; Archives holdings of the 'West India Committee' charity (jointly with Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat and the United Kingdom)
Japan
- 2011 - Collection of annotated paintings and diaries by Sakubei Yamamoto
- 2013 - Handwritten original of the diary Midō Kampakuki ( 御堂 関 白 記 ) of the Japanese nobleman Fujiwara no Michinaga
- 2013 - Collection of artifacts brought to Europe from Japan during the Keicho era. (together with Spain)
- 2015 - "Literature of Tō-ji " ( 東 寺 百合 文書 , Tōji Hyakugō Monjo , English Archives of To-ji temple contained in one hundred boxes)
- 2015 - Documents relating to the internment and repatriation experiences of the Japanese (1945–1956), Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum , Maizuru
- 2017 - History of Peacebuilding and Cultural Exchange between Korea and Japan from the 17th to 19th Centuries
- 2017 - Three old steles with one of the oldest representations of Chinese characters in Japanese grammar in the province of Kōzuke
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Cambodia
- 2009 - Archives of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
- 2017 - Manuscripts on the Stories of Prince Panji (shared with Indonesia, the Netherlands, Malaysia and the United Kingdom)
Canada
- 2007 - Hudson's Bay Company Archives , since 1670, Winnipeg
- 2007 - Collection of the Diocese of Québec Seminary 1623-1800
- 2009 - Film “ Neighbors ”, animation, direction and production by Norman McLaren in 1952
- 2013 - University of Toronto Archives on the Discovery of Insulin
- 2017 - Le Son des Français d'Amérique , multi-part documentary series by Michel Brault and André Gladu from 1974 to 1980 about the traditional francophone music of North America
- 2017 - Marshall McLuhan's personal archive
- 2017 - Philosophical legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (together with the Netherlands, Austria and the United Kingdom)
Kazakhstan
- 2003 - Manuscript collection of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi , National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana (Nur-Sultan since 2019)
- 2005 - Audiovisual documents of the international anti-nuclear movement "Nevada-Semipalatinsk", Semei
- 2011 - Archive of the Aral Sea , which documents its ecological changes from 1965 to 1990
Colombia
- 2005 - Archives "Negros y Esclavos" on the slave trade , 16.-18. Century, Cartagena
- 2007 - American Colonial Music, 16.-18. Century, Archivo de la Catedral, Bogotá (together with Bolivia, Mexico, Peru)
Croatia
- 2007 - Map " Tabula Hungarie ", 1528, Széchényi National Library , Budapest (together with Hungary)
Cuba
- 2005 - “ José Martí Pérez ” Fund, Havana
- 2009 - Original negatives from the institute " ICAIC Latinoamericana" (state institute for film art and industry), 1960–1990
- 2013 - Documentary collection on the life and work of Ernesto Che Guevara (together with Bolivia), Che Guevara Studies Cente, Havana (for Cuba)
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Latvia
- 2001 - Dainu skapis - Folk Song Collection , 1894–1915, Latvian Folklore Archive, Riga
- 2009 - Document collection on the Baltic Way - human chain on August 23, 1989, which connects the three states in their desire for freedom (together with Estonia and Lithuania)
- 2017 - Document establishing the Union of Lublin (together with Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Belarus)
Lebanon
- 2005 - Memorial inscriptions of Nahr al-Kalb , Mountains of Lebanon
- 2005 - The Phoenician alphabet , 11th century BC Chr.
Lithuania
- 2009 - Radzwill Archives and Collection of the Njaswisch Library (Nieśwież), 15. – 20. Century (together with Finland, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus)
- 2009 - Document collection on the Baltic Way - human chain on August 23, 1989, which connects the three states in their desire for freedom (together with Estonia and Latvia)
- 2017 - Document establishing the Union of Lublin (together with Ukraine, Poland, Latvia and Belarus)
Luxembourg
- 2003 - " The Family of Man " (1955): Photo exhibition by Edward Steichen , Clervaux
M.
Madagascar
- 2009 - Royal Archives (1824-1897)
Mali
- 2017 - Book of Healing Internal and External Diseases Affecting the Body (Kitāb Shifā al-Asqām al-Āriḍat min al-Ẓahir wa al-Bāṭin min al-Ajsām)
- 2017 - Remembrance of those who do not pay attention to the harm caused by divergence among believers (Tadkirat al gāfilin 'anqubhihtilāf al- mu'minin)
- 2017 - Human interests are linked to religions and the body (Maṣāliḥ al-Insān al-Mutaʿalliqat bi al-Adyānwa al-Abdān) (together with Nigeria)
Malta
- 2017 - Maps by Giovanni Camocio about the siege of Malta (1565) (together with the Czech Republic)
Malaysia
- 2001 - Correspondence from the Sultan of Kedah (1882–1943), National Archives of Malaysia, Alor Setar
- 2001 - Hikayat Hang Tuah - Malay classical poetry, around 1800, National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
- 2001 - Sejarah Melayu - Malay Annals, 15.-16. Cent., Institute for Language and Literature, Kuala Lumpur
- 2009 - Batu Bersurat Terengganu - engraved stone from Terengganu
- 2017 - Manuscripts on the Stories of Prince Panji (shared with Cambodia, the Netherlands, Indonesia and the United Kingdom)
Morocco
- 2011 - Kitāb al-ʿIbar
- 2017 - Manuscript by al-Zahrāwīsur
Mauritius
- 1997 - Files from the French occupation, 17. – 18. Cent., Mauritius Archives, Petite Rivière, Port Louis
- 2015 - Archives of the Indentur in Mauritius, National Archives Department, National Library and Mahatma Gandhi Institute
Mexico
- 1997 - Collection of Mexican Codices , 16. – 20. Century, National Library of Anthropology and History, Mexico City
- 1997 - Oaxaca Valley Codices, 16th Century, National Archives, Mexico City
- 1997 - Codex Techaloyan from Cujimalpaz, 16th century, National Archives, Mexico City
- 2003 - Film “ Los olvidados ” (The Forgotten), 1950, Filmoteca de la UNAM, Mexico City
- 2005 - Archives of the Biblioteca Palafoxiana , 1473–1821, Puebla
- 2007 - American Colonial Music, 16.-18. Century, Archbishop's Archives, Oaxaca (together with Bolivia, Colombia, Peru)
- 2007 - Collection of books on indigenous languages , Jalisco State Library, Guadalajara
- 2009 - Collection of the Documentation and Research Center of the Ashkenazi Congregation in Mexico, 16. – 20. Century
- 2011 - Collection of pictographic records of maps, documents, drawings and illustrations from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, National Archives, Mexico City
- 2013 - Holdings of the historical archive of the Colegio de las Vizcaínas on women's education and support
- 2015 - Legal files on the Recurso de amparo (1869–1935)
- 2015 - work by Bernardino de Sahagún . (together with Spain and Italy)
- 2017 - Estate of Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Mongolia
- 2011 - Mongolian Tanjur , a collection of more than 3000 Buddhist texts
- 2011 - Stele to the Tanjur
- 2011 - "Lu Altan Tobchi", chronicles from the 17th century
- 2013 - Kanjur written with 9 precious stones, collection of 1600 Buddhist texts
Montserrat
- 2016 - The West India Committee collection ; Archives of the charity 'West India Committee' (together with Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica and the United Kingdom)
Myanmar
- 2013 - 729 stupas with marble inscriptions of the Kuthodaw Pagoda
- 2015 - Golden Letter from 1756, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library , Hanover (together with Germany and the United Kingdom)
- 2015 - Myazedi inscription in four languages
- 2017 - Bell in Shwezigon Pagoda in Bagan with an inscription about King Bayinnaung
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Namibia
- 2005 - Diaries and letters from Hendrik Witbooi , 1884–1894, National Archives of Namibia , Windhoek
Nepal
- 2013 - Nisvasattatvasamhita, the oldest surviving tantric manuscript
- 2013 - Susrutamhita (Sahottartantra), the oldest document on Ayurveda on palm leaves
New Zealand
- 1997 Waitangi Treaty 1840, National Archives, Wellington
- 1997 - Petition for 1893 Women's Suffrage , National Archives, Wellington
- 2015 - Edmund Hillary archive / estate , Auckland War Memorial Museum , Auckland
Nicaragua
- 2007 - National Literacy Campaign Archives, 1980, Managua
Netherlands
- 2003 - Ets Haim library collection - Livraria Montezinos of the Portuguese-Jewish community, since 1484
- 2003 - Archives of the Dutch East India Company , The Hague (together with India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, South Africa)
- 2009 - Diaries of Anne Frank , 1942–1944
- 2011 - Film archive of the Dutch film distributor Jean Desmet, from 1910.
- 2011 - La Galigo , kept in the University Library in Leiden (together with Indonesia)
- 2011 - Archives of the Dutch West India Company (together with Brazil, Ghana, Guyana, the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, the United Kingdom and the United States)
- 2011 - Archive of the Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (together with Curaçao and Suriname)
- 2013 - Autobiographical writings Babad Diponegoro of the Javanese freedom fighter Diponegoro (together with Indonesia)
- 2013 - Writings of Karl Marx ( Manifesto of the Communist Party and Das Kapital. Volume I ) (together with Germany)
- 2015 - Selected collections of global linguistic diversity in the language archive of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics , Nijmegen (together with Germany)
- 2015 - Utrecht Psalter , Utrecht University Library , Utrecht
- 2017 - Written estate of Aletta Jacobs , a Dutch women's rights activist (with the United States)
- 2017 - Manuscripts on the Stories of Prince Panji (shared with Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the United Kingdom)
- 2017 - Archives of Amsterdam Notaries from 1578 to 1915
- 2017 - Philosophical legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (together with Canada, Austria and the United Kingdom)
- 2017 - Film about the Westerbork transit camp
Netherlands Antilles
Even after its dissolution, UNESCO continues to keep the Netherlands Antilles on its list of countries.
- 2009 - First Catechism in the Papiamentu language
- 2011 - Archives of the Dutch West India Company (together with Brazil, the Netherlands, Ghana, Guyana, Suriname, the United Kingdom and the United States)
Nigeria
- 2017 - Human interests are linked to religions and the body (Maṣāliḥ al-Insān al-Mutaʿalliqat bi al-Adyānwa al-Abdān) (together with Mali)
North Korea
- 2017 - Muye Dobo Tongji : an illustrated manual of martial arts from the late 18th century
Norway
- 2001 - Leprosy Archives of Bergen, City Archives and Country Archives, Bergen , documents for scientific research into the disease
- 2001 - Henrik Ibsen : “Nora or A Doll's House”, 1879, Norwegian National Library , Oslo
- 2005 - Footage of Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition 1910–1912
- 2011 - “Thor Heyerdahl Archive” (collection of documents, film and photo material), Norwegian National Library / Kon-Tiki Museum , Oslo
- 2013 - “ Sophus Tromholt Collection ” (collection of 231 photos on glass negatives and 189 photos on albumen paper from the years 1882–1883), University Library, Bergen
- 2017 - "Castberg Laws of 1915" (laws with which illegitimate children or their parents were granted rights)
O
Austria
- 1997 - Vienna Dioscurides manuscript , Austrian National Library , Vienna - late antique composite manuscript, made before AD 512
- 1997 - Final document of the Congress of Vienna , Austrian State Archives , Vienna - Final file of the Congress of Vienna 1815
- 1999 - Historical collections (1899–1950) of the phonogram archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna - audio documents
- 2001 - Papyrus Collection of Archduke Rainer (Collection Erzherzog Rainer), 1500 BC. Chr. – 1500 AD, Austrian National Library, Vienna
- 2001 - Schubert collection of the Vienna library in the town hall - documents on Franz Schubert (Schubertiana), autographs and all first editions
- 2003 - Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem , Austrian National Library, Vienna - map collection (1662–1678) with colored hand drawings and engravings (50 volumes)
- 2005 - Brahms Collection , Society of Friends of Music in Vienna , Vienna - Johannes Brahms ' estate
- 2005 - Collection of Gothic architectural drawings , Academy of Fine Arts , Vienna - Gothic architectural drawings
- 2005 - Renaissance Library of Mathias Corvinus - Bibliotheca Corviniana , Austrian National Library, Vienna - Book collection of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490) - so far 107 Latin manuscripts known in 33 libraries (together with Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and Hungary)
- 2007 - Tabula Peutingeriana , Austrian National Library, Vienna - Map collection of the Roman road network in the late Roman Empire
- 2011 - Arnold Schönberg's estate , Arnold Schönberg Center , Vienna - Arnold Schönberg's collection on numerous topics
- 2011 - Mainzer Psalter , Austrian National Library, Vienna - Collection of psalms in Latin (1457) with multicolored printing in black, red and blue
- 2013 - Golden Bull , u. a. Austrian State Archives, Vienna - The most important of the fundamental "laws" of the Holy Roman Empire (together with Germany)
- 2017 - Philosophical legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein , including the Austrian State Archives, Vienna (together with Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom)
- 2017 - Documents for the construction of the Semmering Railway , Technical Museum Vienna
Oman
- 2017 - Manuscript "Maden Al Asrar Fi Elm Al Behar"
East Timor
- 2013 - The Birth of a Nation: Turning Points. Audiovisual material filmed by Max Stahl ( Christopher Wenner ) about demonstrations and the independence movement in Timor-Leste.
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Pakistan
- 1999 - Documents from Ali Jinnah - founder of Pakistan, National Archives, Islamabad
Panama
- 2011 - The Silver Men document collection on the migration of workers from the West Indies in the construction of the Panama Canal (shared with Barbados, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, the United Kingdom and the United States)
Paraguay
- 2009 - Archives of State Repressions, since 1975
Peru
- 2007 - American Colonial Music, 16.-18. Century, National Library, Lima (together with Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico)
- 2013 - Travel register of the conquistadors (»El Libro Becerro«), 1533–1538, Lima
- 2013 - Peruvian and South American first editions, 1584–1619, Lima
Philippines
- 1999 - Philippine Paleographies (Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala'wan), 10th century, National Museum, Manila
- 2003 - Radio recordings of the Philippine People's Uprising , 1986.
- 2007 - Collection of the ethnomusicologist José Maceda , 1953–2003, University of the Philippines, Quezon City
- 2011 - Documents from President Manuel Quezon
Poland
- 1999 - De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri sex (German: "About the circular movements of the world bodies"), 1520, manuscript by Nicolaus Copernicus , since 1956 in the Jagiellonian Library , Cracow
- 1999 - Archives from the Warsaw Ghetto ( Emanuel Ringelblum Archive ), Jewish Historical Institute , Warsaw
- 1999 - Frédéric Chopin's masterpieces , Fryderyk Chopin Society, Warsaw
- 2003 - Declaration of the Confederation of Warsaw on Freedom of Belief of January 28, 1537
- 2003 - 21 demands from Gdansk , August 1980 , the birth of the Solidarność trade union as a massive civil movement
- 2007 - Codex Suprasliensis (manuscripts in Old Church Slavonic ), National Library , Warsaw (together with Russia and Slovenia)
- 2007 - Archives of the National Education Commission , 1773–1794, Cracow
- 2009 - Archives of the literary institute " Kultura " in Paris (1946–2000)
- 2009 - Radzwill Archives and Collection of the Njaswisch Library ( Nieśwież ), 15. – 20. Century (together with Finland, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus)
- 2011 - Archives of the Warsaw Reconstruction Office , State Archives, Warsaw
- 2013 - Ahdnames , peace treaties from the middle of the 15th to the late 18th century between the Kingdom of Poland and the Ottoman Empire
- 2013 - Collections of the Bibliothèque Polonaise of the Adam Mickiewicz Museum in Paris, 19th century
- 2015 - Unity Brothers Files and Library , Poznan State Archive, Raczyński Library in Wroclaw and Kórnik Library
- 2015 - Heinrichau Founding Book ( Księga Henrykowska ) of the Heinrichau Monastery
- 2017 - Report by SS group leader Jürgen Stroop on the suppression of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto (1943)
- 2017 - Document establishing the Union of Lublin (together with Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Latvia)
- 2017 - Polish radio reconnaissance documents from the time of the Battle of Warsaw (1920)
Portugal
- 2005 - Letter from Cabral's scribe Pêro Vaz de Caminha to King Manuel I , who announced the "discovery" of Brazil, Carta do Achamento do Brasil , first description of Brazil 1500.
- 2007 - Treaty of Tordesillas of June 7, 1494, Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon (together with Spain)
- 2007 - Corpo Cronologico: Manuscript collection on the Portuguese voyages of discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries
- 2011 - Reports from the captains Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral of the first flight over the South Atlantic in 1922, Biblioteca Central da Marinha, Lisbon
- 2011 - Arquivos dos Dembos or Ndembu Archives . (together with Angola)
- 2013 - Log of Vasco da Gama's first trip to India (1497–1499), Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto
- 2015 - Beatus , work by Beatus von Liébana on the Apocalypse. (together with Spain)
- 2017 - Codex Calixtinus of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and other medieval copies of the Liber Sancti Jacobi (Jacob's Book): The Iberian origin of the Jacobean tradition in Europe (together with Spain)
- 2017 - Collection of official files on Macau from the time of the Qing Dynasty (1693–1886) (together with China)
- 2017 - Register of visas issued by the Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, Aristides de Sousa Mendes , 1939/1940
R.
Russia
- 1997 - Gospel of Arkhangelsk from 1092 (Архангельское Евангелие), Russian State Library , Moscow
- 1997 - Gospel of Khitrovo (Евангелие Хитрово), Russian State Library, Moscow
- 1997 - Slavic publications in Cyrillic script from the 15th century, Russian State Library, Moscow
- 1997 - newspaper collections, 18. – 20. Century, Russian State Library, Moscow
- 1997 - Maps of the Russian Empire , 18th century, Russian State Library, Moscow
- 1997 - Russian posters from the end of the 19th / beginning of the 20th century, Russian State Library, Moscow
- 2001 - Historical Collections of the St. Petersburg Sound Archives (1889–1955), Institute for Russian Literature and Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
- 2007 - Codex Suprasliensis (manuscripts in Old Church Slavonic), Russian National Library , Saint Petersburg (together with Poland and Slovenia)
- 2009 - Radzwill Archives and Collection of the Njaswisch Library (Nieśwież), 15. – 20. Century (together with Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Belarus)
- 2011 - Tolstoy's personal library and manuscripts and photo and film collection
- 2011 - Ostromir Gospels of 1056/57, Russian National Library , Moscow
- 2013 - Laurentius Chronicle of 1377
- 2015 - Sobornoje Uloschenije from 1649
- 2017 - Saint Petersburg Murakka , album of Indian and Persian miniature painting from the 16th to 18th centuries and samples of Persian calligraphy
S.
Saudi Arabia
- 2003 - Earliest Islamic inscriptions ( Kufic ), 8. – 10. Century, at Qa'a al Muatadil
Sweden
- 2005 - Astrid Lindgren Archive, Kungliga Biblioteket , Stockholm
- 2005 - Emanuel Swedenborg Collection, Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
- 2007 - Ingmar Bergman Archive of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , Swedish Film Institute , Stockholm
- 2007 - Alfred Nobel family archive , Lund
- 2011 - City Archives of Stockholm City, Stockholms stadsarkiv
- 2011 - Codex Argenteus , Carolina Rediviva University Library , Uppsala
- 2017 - Dag Hammarskjöld collection (collection mainly of documents, dossiers on the activities of the United Nations, manuscripts and letters, personal "reference works" with documents and memoranda on world political issues)
Switzerland
- 2011 - Collections on Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Geneva and Neuchâtel
- 2013 - Claude Nobs bequest to the Montreux Jazz Festival
- 2015 - Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (1916–1971)
- 2017 - Statements by indigenous peoples at the United Nations from 1982 to 2015
- 2017 - Document heritage in the monastery archive of the former St. Gallen Abbey and in the St. Gallen Abbey Library .
Senegal
- 1997 - French West Africa Collection (Afrique occidentale française), National Archives, Dakar
- 2015 - Collection of student works from the École normal William Ponty
- 2015 - Collection of old postcards from French West Africa (1900–1959), National Archives
Serbia
- 2003 - Nikola Tesla Archive, Belgrade
- 2005 - Miroslav Gospel (around 1180), National Library, Belgrade
- 2015 - Telegram from Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia on July 28, 1914, National Archives, Belgrade
Sint Maarten
- 2017 - Route to Freedom : A case study of how enslaved Africans gained their freedom on the island with the states of Sint Maarten and Saint Martin
Zimbabwe
- 2015 - Legal documents on the case against the two media Nehanda and Kaguvi (April 1897)
Slovakia
- 1997 - Illustrated codices of the Library of the House of Order of Bratislava (Pressburg), National Archives, Bratislava
- 1997 - Basagic Collection of Islamic Manuscripts, University Library, Bratislava
- 2007 - Maps of the Banská Štiavnica mines (1641-1918)
Slovenia
- 2007 - Codex Suprasliensis (manuscripts in Old Church Slavonic), Slovenian National and University Library , Ljubljana (together with Poland and Russia)
Spain
- 2007 - Treaty of Tordesillas , 1494, Archivo General de Indias , Seville (together with Portugal)
- 2009 - Santa Fé deeds of surrender , 1490–1493, Archivo General de la Corona de Aragón, Barcelona
- 2013 - Decreta de León (1188), documents on the oldest documentary manifestation of the European parliamentary system
- 2013 - Llibre del Sindicat Remença (1448)
- 2013 - Collection of artifacts brought to Europe from Japan during the Keicho era. (together with Japan)
- 2015 - Word lists of indigenous languages of the New World with Spanish translation , Archivo General de Indias , Seville
- 2015 - Beatus , work by Beatus von Liébana on the Apocalypse. (together with Portugal)
- 2015 - work by Bernardino de Sahagún . (together with Mexico and Italy)
- 2017 - Archives of Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Spanish School of Neurohistology
- 2017 - Codex Calixtinus of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and other medieval copies of the Liber Sancti Jacobi (Jacob's Book): The Iberian origin of the Jacobean tradition in Europe (together with Portugal)
- 2017 - General Archives of Simancas
Sri Lanka
- 2003 - Archives of the Dutch East India Company , Colombo (together with India, Indonesia, Netherlands, South Africa)
- 2017 - Archive on the 2004 tsunami catastrophe in the Indian Ocean (together with Indonesia)
St. Lucia
- 2009 - Documentation by and about Sir William Arthur Lewis , 1915–1991
- 2011 - The Silver Men document collection on the migration of workers from the West Indies in the construction of the Panama Canal (jointly with Barbados, Jamaica, Panama, the United Kingdom and the United States)
St. Kitts and Nevis
- 2009 - British Caribbean Slave Register, 1817–1834 (shared with the Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- 2011 - Records of the contract workers from British India (together with Fiji, Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago)
South Africa
- 1997 - Bleek Collection, 17th-18th centuries Century, University of Cape Town / South African Library, Cape Town
- 2003 - Archives of the Dutch East India Company , Cape Town (together with India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Sri Lanka)
- 2007 - Files of the Rivonia Trial , 1960 (State vs. Nelson Mandela et al.), Pretoria
- 2007 - archive collection of the South African freedom movement
- 2013 - Archives of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) 1991–1992 and the multiparty conference 1993.
South Korea
- 1997 - Hunmin Chongum Manuscript , 1446, Kansong Art Museum, Seoul
- 1997 - Annals of the Joseon Dynasty , in Korean: Chongjoksan Sagabon ( 조선 왕조 실록 ), 1392–1863, Seoul
- 2001 - Seungjeongwon Ilgi , The Diaries of the Royal Secretariat, Jan. 19-20 Cent., Gyujanggak Library and Seoul State University, Seoul
- 2001 - Buljo jikji simche yo jeol (vol. II). - the second volume of the “Anthology of the Zen Teachings of Eminent Buddhist Priests”, 1377, French National Library, Paris
- 2007 - Tripitaka Koreana , the wooden printing blocks of various Buddhist documents, 13th century, Haeinsa
- 2007 - Uigwe , the Royal Protocols of the Joseon Dynasty ( 조선 왕조 ) (1392-1910)
- 2009 - Donguibogam , Principles and Practices of Eastern Medicine in the Period of the Joseon Dynasty ( 조선 왕조 ), 1613
- 2011 - 5.18 archive - 518 민주화 운동 기록관 Archive about the democracy movement of May 18th and its uprising in Gwangju against the military government
- 2011 - Ilseongnok , records of daily reflections during the Joseon Dynasty ( 조선 왕조 ) (1392-1910)
- 2013 - Nanjung Ilgi , the war diary of Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin from the end of the 16th century
- 2013 - Saemaeul Undong , archives of the national "Campaign New Village" (literally translated: "New Village Campaign" )
- 2015 - Isangajogeul Chatseumnida ( 이산 가족 을 찾습니다 ) "Finding Separate Families" - Archive of the programs of the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)
- 2015 - Confucian wooden printing blocks in Korea
- 2017 - Joseon Dynasty Royal Seals and Investiture Books ( 조선 왕조 ) (1392-1910)
- 2017 - National debt repayment movement from the beginning of the 20th century (archive)
- 2017 - Joseon Tongsinsa
Suriname
- 2011 - Archives of the Dutch West India Company (together with Brazil, Ghana, Guyana, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, the United Kingdom and the United States)
- 2011 - Archive of the Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (together with Curaçao and the Netherlands)
- 2011 - Records of the contract workers from British India (together with Fiji, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago)
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Tajikistan
- 2003 - "Kulliyat" by Ubayd Zakoni and "Gazalliyt" by Hafez Sherozi : manuscripts from the 14th century
Tanzania
- 1997 - German files in the National Archives, National Archives, Dar es Salaam
- 2003 - Collection of Arabic manuscripts and books
Thailand
- 2003 - Inscription by King Ram Khamhaeng , 1292, now in the Bangkok National Museum
- 2009 - Archival documents of the change of Siam by King Chulalongkorn , 1868–1910
- 2011 - Epigraphic Archive in Wat Pho
- 2013 - Minutes of the Council of the Siam Society
- 2017 - Royal Collection of Glass Plate Negatives and Original Prints in the National Archives of Bangkok
Trinidad and Tobago
- 1997 - Derek Walcott Collection, Main Library, West Indies University, St. Augustine
- 1999 - Eric Eustace Williams Collection, 1956–1981, Main Library, West Indies University, St. Augustine
- 2005 - Cyril Lionel Robert James Collection
- 2009 - British Caribbean Slave Register, 1817–1834 (shared with the Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and the United Kingdom)
- 2011 - Records of the contract workers from British India (together with Fiji, Guyana, Suriname and St. Vincent and the Grenadines)
- 2011 - Constantine Collection ; Collection of public as well as private documents from the life of Learie Constantine
Czech Republic
- 2007 - Manuscript collection from the time of the Czech Reformation , Czech National Library , Prague
- 2007 - Collection of magazines from Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian emigrants 1918–1945, Czech National Library, Prague
- 2011 - Collection of 526 university theses from 1637–1754, Czech National Library , Prague
- 2013 - Collection of periodicals in Libri Prohibiti , Prague
- 2015 - Light plays by Émile Reynaud from 1892. (together with France)
- 2017 - Archives of the composer Leoš Janáček
- 2017 - Königswarter daguerreotype
- 2017 - Maps by Giovanni Camocio about the siege of Malta (1565) (shared with Malta)
Tunisia
- 2011 - Documents on piracy and international relations of the Tunis reign in the 18th and 19th centuries
- 2017 - Documents on the Abolition of Slavery 1841-1846
Turkey
- 2001 - Hittite cuneiform scripts from Boğazkale , Archaeological Museum , Istanbul / Museum of Anatolian Civilizations , Ankara
- 2001 - Manuscripts of the Kandili Observatory and Institute for Earthquake Research, Boğaziçi University, Kandili Observatory / Institute for Earthquake Research, Istanbul
- 2003 - Works by Ibn Sina from the manuscript library in Süleymaniye, 980–1038, Istanbul
- 2013 - Travel book (Seyahatnâme) by Evliya Çelebi , Süleymaniye Manuscript Library, Istanbul
- 2015 - Archive of the ancient Assyrian traders from Kültepe
- 2017 - Diwan Lughat al-Turk (Collection of the Languages of the Turks) by Mahmud al-Kāschgharī , manuscript copy from the 13th century (lost original from the 11th century), Millet Manuscript Library, Istanbul
- 2017 - Map of the Piri Reis
U
Ukraine
- 2005 - Collection of Jewish folklore music on Edison wax cylinders, 1912–1947, Vernadsky National Library, Kiev
- 2009 - Radzwill Archives and Collection of the Njaswisch Library (Nieśwież), 15. – 20. Century (together with Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Belarus)
- 2017 - Document establishing the Union of Lublin (together with Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Belarus)
- 2017 - Collection on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the State Archives of Ukraine
Hungary
- 2001 - Karl Tihany's patent application “Radioskop” (1926), Hungarian State Archives , Budapest
- 2005 - Renaissance Library of Mathias Corvinus - Bibliotheca Corviniana (15th century), Budapest (together with Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Austria)
- 2007 - Map " Tabula Hungarie ", 1528, Széchényi National Library , Budapest (together with Croatia)
- 2009 - Csoma Archive of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2009 - János Bolyai : Appendix, scientiam spatii absolute veram exhibens. Maros-Vásárhelyini, 1832
- 2013 - Discoveries by Ignaz Semmelweis from the years 1847–1861
- 2015 - Three documents on the work of Loránd Eötvös
Uruguay
- 2003 - Original recordings by the tango singer Carlos Gardel , 1913–1935, Horacio Loriente Collection
- 2015 - Iconographic and cartographic depictions of the Triple Alliance War (together with Brazil)
- 2015 - Fundo Comitê de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos para os Países do Cone Sul (CLAMOR) - Documents on the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the South Cone (together with Brazil)
Uzbekistan
- 1997 - Oldest copy of the Koran by Caliph Osman , 644–656, Muslim Council of Uzbekistan, Tashkent
- 1997 - Collection of the Al Biruni Institute for Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences, Tashkent
- 2017 - Archives of the Khans Chancellery in Khiva Khanate
V
Vanuatu
- 2013 - Arthur Bernard Deacon's 1926 MS 90–98 Collection, Malacula and New Hebrides Peoples Records (shared with the United Kingdom)
Venezuela
- 1997 - "Escritos del Libertador" - writings of the freedom fighter Simón Bolívar , 19th century, Archivo General de la Nación de Venezuela (National Archives), Caracas
- 1997 - Collection of 19th Century Latin American Photographs, National Library, Caracas
- 2007 - Collection of Francisco de Miranda , 18. – 19. Century, National Academy of History, Caracas
United Kingdom
- 2005 - Radio broadcast of Charles de Gaulle's appeal for French resistance to the German invasion, June 18, 1940 (the June 18 appeal ) (jointly with France)
- 2005 - " The Battle of the Somme " (1916): Film about the Battle of the Somme , Imperial War Museum , London
- 2007 - Hereford World Map , 1285-1295, Hereford Cathedral, Hereford
- 2009 - Magna Carta , issued 1215
- 2009 - British Caribbean slave registry, 1817–1834 (shared with the Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Trinidad and Tobago)
- 2011 - Archives of the Dutch West India Company (together with Brazil, Ghana, Guyana, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname and the United States)
- 2011 - Historical-ethnographic field recordings from the years 1898 to 1915 in the British Library ⋅
- 2011 - The Silver Men document collection on the migration of workers from the West Indies during the construction of the Panama Canal (together with Barbados, Jamaica, Panama, Saint Lucia and the United States)
- 2013 - Manuscript collection for the work The Warrior in the Tiger Skin by Shota Rustaveli (together with Georgia)
- 2013 - Membership Archives of the Institution of Civil Engineers , London
- 2013 - Arthur Bernard Deacon 's MS 90–98 Collection from 1926, Records of the Peoples of Malakula and the New Hebrides (together with Vanuatu)
- 2015 - Winston Churchill's personal archive
- 2015 - Douglas Haig's personal diary from the First World War , National Library of Scotland , Edinburgh
- 2015 - Golden Letter from 1756, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library , Hanover (together with Germany and Myanmar)
- 2016 - The West India Committee collection ; Archives of the 'West India Committee' charity (together with Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica and Montserrat)
- 2017 - An African Song or Chant from Barbados (together with Barbados)
- 2017 - Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander (together with Bulgaria)
- 2017 - Archive of Gertrude Bell
- 2017 - Manuscripts on the stories of Prince Panji (together with Cambodia, the Netherlands, Malaysia and Indonesia)
- 2017 - George Orwell's personal archive
- 2017 - Philosophical legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (together with Canada, the Netherlands and Austria)
- 2017 - Documents from the Life of William Shakespeare (joint with the United States)
United States
- 2005 - Waldseemüller map from 1507, in the possession of the Library of Congress , Washington, DC since 2003 (together with Germany)
- 2007 - " The Wizard of Oz (1939) ", one of the most outstanding works in film history
- 2009 - John Marshall Ju / 'hoan Bushman film collection, 1950–2000
- 2011 - Archives of the Dutch West India Company (together with Brazil, Ghana, Guyana, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname and the United Kingdom)
- 2011 - The Silver Men document collection on the migration of workers from the West Indies during the construction of the Panama Canal (together with Barbados, Jamaica, Panama, Saint Lucia and the United Kingdom)
- 2011 - records / data of the Landsat program
- 2013 - Eleanor Roosevelt's manuscripts and audiovisual testimonials
- 2015 - Moses and Frances Asch Collection , Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage , Washington, DC
- 2017 - Written estate of Aletta Jacobs , a Dutch women's rights activist (together with the Netherlands)
- 2017 - Documents from the life of William Shakespeare (joint with the United Kingdom)
- 2017 - The Villa Ocampo Documentation Center , private library and archive materials of the writer Victoria Ocampo (together with Argentina)
Vietnam
- 2009 - Nguyễn dynasty printing sticks
- 2010 - Doctor's Steles of Le - Mac Dynasties in Văn Miếu -Quoc Tu Giam, Hanoi. Steles of the names of the graduates of imperial exams in Hanoi's Temple of Literature
- 2017 - Imperial Archives of the Nguyễn Dynasty
W.
Belarus
- 2009 - Radzwill Archives and Collection of the Njaswisch Library (Nieśwież), 15. – 20. Century (together with Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine)
- 2017 - Document establishing the Union of Lublin (together with Ukraine, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania)
Not assigned to any state
- 2007 - Archives of the International Agency for Prisoners of War , 1914–1923, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum , Geneva
- 2007 - Christopher Okigbo Collection, 1932–1967
- 2009 - Archives of the League of Nations , 1919–1946
- 2009 - UNRWA - Photo and film archives of the Palestinian refugees
- 2013 - Archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS)
- 2015 - First recording of a human voice by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in the archive of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
Web links
- Memory of the World on the UNESCO website
- Memory of the future: The UNESCO program “Memory of the World” for World Document Heritage , German UNESCO Commission, 2010 (PDF; 3.1 MB).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Document heritage . UNESCO, accessed June 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Nomination form International Memory of the World - Register Archives of Tōji temple contained in one-hundred boxes Tōji Hyakugō Monjo. (PDF) Japanese Commission of the Unesco, 2014, accessed February 15, 2015 .
- ^ Memory of the World - Register - Netherlands Antilles. UNESCO, accessed June 19, 2013 .
- ↑ a b DN: Silverbibles utsedd till världsminne av Unesco