List Mémoire of the world

The international Register “ Mémoire of the world ” is the list of all the collections of the documentary inheritance which were identified by the international Advisory committee at its meetings with Tachkent (September 1997), with Vienna (June 1999), with Cheongju (June 2001), with Gdańsk (August 2003), and with Lijiang (June 2005) and approved by the Managing director of UNESCO like answering the selection criteria of universal interest.

Africa

South Africa

  • 1997 : The Collection Bleek, ( University of the Cape and South African Library of the Cape, the Cape )

Benign

  • 1997 : Colonial files, ( Public records, Oporto Novo ).

Egypt

Ethiopia

  • 1997 : Treasuries of the Organization of the Files and the Library main roads of Ethiopia, ( national Files and Bibliothèque, (Addis-Abeba ).

Mauritius

  • 1997 : Files of the French occupation of Maurice, ( Files of Maurice, Small River, Port-Louis ).

Namibia

Senegal

Tanzania

  • 1997 : Files and German files, ( Public records, Dar Es Salaam )
  • 2003 : Collection of manuscripts and books Arab (2003)

Americas

Argentinian

Barbados

  • 2003 : Documentary inheritance of the people of the the reduced Caribbean in Slavery

Brazil

  • 2003 : The collection of the Emperor: Brazilian and foreign photography at the 19th century.

Chile

Colombia

  • 2005 : Files “Negros Esclavos”
This collection single contains there many testimonys and information of great importance on the draft of the slaves, of the 16th century at the beginning of the 19th century, with destination or starting from the port of Cartagena, in Colombia.

Cuba

  • 2005 : Funds “Jose Martí Pérez”
It includes/understands 2.435 documents illustrating work literary, journalistic, revolutionary, diplomatic and biographical of Jose Martí (1853-1895), an author and activist whose influence was durable in Latin America.

the United States of America

  • 2005 : Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem and aliorumque Americi Vespucii Lustrationes

Mexico

  • 1997 : Collection of Mexican codices, ( National library of Anthropology and history, Mexico City ).
  • 1997 : Codex and file of Marquisat of the Valley of Oaxaca, ( Public records, Mexico City ).
  • 1997 : Codex Techaloyan de Cuajimalpaz, ( Public records, Mexico City ).
  • 2003 : Los olvidados , the negative original out of cellulose nitrate of film of the Spanish realizer Shine Buñuel, ( Filmoteca of the UNAM, Mexico City ).
  • 2005 : Palafoxiana library of Puebla.
the library, which is installed in the same building since 1646, gathers books of the period 1473 - 1821.
the classification of the books still follows the diagram of origin. First public library in America, it is the only testimony of this kind of libraries on the continent. It illustrates also the European heritage in America.

Trinity-and-Tobago

  • 1997 : The Collection Derek Walcott, ( principal Library, University of the Antilles, St Augustine ).
  • 1999 : The funds Eric Williams, ( principal Library, University of the Antilles, St Augustine ).
  • 2005 : Collection C.L.R. James.

Uruguay

Venezuela

  • 1997 : Writings of Libertador Simon Bolivar, ( Public records, Caracas ).
  • 1997 : Collection of Latin-American photographs of the 19th century, ( National library, Caracas ).

Asia

Saudi Arabia

  • the oldest Islamic inscription (Coufique), (2003).
These inscriptions, preserved very well, are on a red block of sandstone located at the south of Qa' has Al Muatadil, in the North-West of Saudi Arabia, on old trade route and of pilgrimage connecting the city of the beginnings of the Islam, Al-Mabiyat, with Madain Saleh. It is to date about the oldest known Moslem inscription.

Arménie

  • Collection of old manuscripts of the Matenadaran (1997), ( Institute of old manuscripts Mashtots, Erevan ).

Azerbaïdjan

  • Handwritten of the Middle Ages relating to medicine and pharmacy (2005).
This collection includes/understands books of which there does not exist any other handwritten specimen. All these books largely influenced the development of medicine and pharmacology in Azerbaïdjan and in the adjoining countries.

China

  • Sound archives - traditional Chinese music (1997), ( Research institute musicologic of the Chinese Academy of arts, Beijing ).
  • Files of the high Secretariat of the Qing (1999), ( historical Files, Museum of the Palate, Beijing ).
  • Handwritten old of the literature Dongba of the Naxi (2003).
  • Lists of gold of the imperial examinations under the dynasty of Qing (2005)

South Korea

  • Hunmin Chongum (1997), ( Museum of the Art schools Kansong, Seoul ).
  • Choson Wangjo Shillok, Annals of the Dynasty Chosŏn (1997), ( Chongjoksan Sagobon, Seoul ).
  • Seungjeongwon Ilgi, Newspapers of the Royal Secretariat (2001), ( Gyujanggak Library and National university of Seoul, Seoul ).
  • Buljo jikji simche yojeol (vol. II), the second volume of the “Anthology of the lesson Zen of the large Buddhist priests” (2001), ( National library of France, Paris ).

India

  • the collection of medical manuscripts of the IAS (1997), ( Institute of the Asian studies, Tamil Nadu ).
  • the manuscripts Śaiva of Pondichéry (2005).

Kazakhstan

  • Collection of the manuscripts of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (2003).
  • audio-visual Documents of the antinuclear movement “Nevada-Semipalatinsk” (2005).

Lebanon

the steles of Nahr Al-Kalb depict the history of the Lebanon since the XIV E until our days, through the inscriptions left by the succession of armed Pharaonic, assyro - Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Arabic, Frenchwomen and English. the alphabet registered on the Sarcophagus of Ahiram, king de Byblos XII E, is the oldest known example of the alphabetical writing, in opposition to the writings wedge-shaped and hieroglyphic. This written form is made up only of Consonne S. the alphabet phenician gave his base to the Greek alphabet which will bring the Voyelle S. It was used as a basis for the development of a great number of alphabets, and in particular the Aramean alphabet, which itself will give rise to the Hebrew and to the Arab . The sarcophagus is with the National museum of Beirut.

Malaysia

  • Correspondence of the last Sultan of Kedah (1882-1943) (2001), ( Public records of Malaysia, Alor Setar ).
  • Hikayat Hang Tuah (2001), ( National library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur ).
  • Sejarah Melayu, Malayan Annals (2001), ( Institute of the languages and the literature, Kuala Lumpur ).

Ouzbékistan

  • the Coran of Othman (1997), ( the Moslem Council of Ouzbékistan, Tachkent ).
  • the Collection of the Institute Al-Biruni of Eastern studies (1997), ( Academy of Science of the Republic of Ouzbékistan, Tachkent ).

Pakistan

  • Fund Jinnah (1999), ( Public records, Islamabad ).

Filipino

  • Filipino paleographic Documents (Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala' wan) (1999), ( National museum, Manila ).
  • Broadcasting of the capacity of the Filipino people, (2003).

Tadjikistan

  • Handwritten “Kull' iyyāt” of Ubayd Zakoni and “Ghāzāll' iyyāt” of Hafez Sherozi, 14th century (2003).

Thailand

  • the inscription of the king RAM Khamhaeng, (2003).

Turkey

  • the shelves Hittites with wedge-shaped writing of Boğazköy (2001), ( archaeological Museum of Istanbul and Musée of Anatolian civilizations of Ankara ).
  • Handwritten of the Observatory and telluric Research institute of Kandilli, (2001), ( University of Bogaziçi, Observatory and telluric research institute of Kandilli, Istanbul ).
  • works of Ibn Sina, ( more known under its Latin name: Avicenne ), (980-1038), with the Süleymaniye Library of manuscripts, (2003).

Europe

Albania

Germany

  • sound documents (cylinders of Edison) of traditional music of the world, 1893 with 1952 , (1999), ( Phonogramm-Archiv, Museum of ethnology, Berlin ).
the Archives of the sound record of Berlin belong to the section of Musicologie of the ethnographic Museum, National museums of Berlin, Fondation for the Prussian cultural heritage ( Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv amndt Museum für Völkerkunde, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preuβischer Kulturbesitz ). More than 145.000 musical recordings representing the cultural heritage of many cultures of the whole world, except for Western art and of the pop music are preserved on very different sound supports, in particular: sound records of Edison, bands analogical and numerical, and all types of discs (of the 78 shellac turns with the compact disk, while passing by the long-playing record).
It acts of a world collection of exceptional sound recordings whose interest is universal and who has intercultural dimensions.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven - symphony n° 9, D-minor, op.125 , (2001), ( Library of State, Berlin ).
the ninth symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most known musical works in the world. It is the last completed symphony of the German type-setter and the jewel of the whole of its work. To its design, it counts among the most brilliant and impressive compositions of the history of the music, which it strongly and deeply influenced, XIX {{E}} and 20th centuries and not only the symphonic kind.
During more than one hour, it is a symphony in four movements which does not respect the sonata form. Each one of them is a masterpiece of composition which shows that Beethoven was completely freed from traditional conventions and makes discover new prospects with the treatment of the orchestra.
In the last movement, the human voice appears for the first time. Beethoven adds a chorus and a vocal quartet which sing the Hymne with the joy , a poem of Friedrich von Schiller. This work calls with the love and became a symbol of peace and fraternity between all the men, the nations and the people of the world. Many orchestras play this work traditionally with each new year day before, underlining the capacity symbolic system of the symphony.
During Olympic Games of 1956 and 1964, the first verse of the last movement was the common anthem of the the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic republic. Later, other countries made them National anthem of it, by grafting other words there. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, this symphony took an particular importance for the inhabitants of both Germany but also those of the Central Europe. The Anthem with the joy was selected like European anthem by the countries of the European Union. That shows the importance of this music in the memory and the conscience of the people.

  • the funds arts person Goethe, (2001), ( Files Goethe and Schiller, Weimar ).

  • Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Tales for the children and the parents), (2005).

  • Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem and aliorumque Americi Vespucii Lustrationes (2005).

Drawn up by a team of scientists of Saint-Dié (France) according to the recent observations of Spanish forwardings and Portuguese of the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century, the map of the world of Martin Waldseemüller of 1507 is universally recognized like the first of all the charts, printed or handwritten, which describes a distinct Western hemisphere correctly and mentions the existence of the Pacific Ocean. This monumental work of the beginning of the 16th century is moreover the first mural chart of the world carried out by the technique of printing works, and the first where the New World bears the name of America, chosen by Waldseemüller in homage to Amerigo Vespucci.

  • the Corvina ( Bibliotheca Corviniana ) (2005).

Corvina was, with the Renaissance, the largest collection of books of Europe after that of the the Vatican. It included/understood works written for the king Mathias (1458 - 1490), as of the copies of the most important texts that one knew at that time. It reflected the literary production of the Rebirth, as well as the state of knowledge and arts during this period. It covered all the fields: Philosophy, Theology, History, Right, Literature, Geography, Natural science, Medicine, Architecture, etc
(joint Proposal: Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, and Italy)

Austria

  • the Dioscurides of Vienna, (1997), ( National library, Vienna ).
  • final Act of the Congress of Vienna (1997), ( Public records, Vienna ).
  • historical collections of Phonogrammarchiv of Vienna, 1899-1950, (1999).
  • Collection of Papyrus of the National library (2001) ( National library of Austria, Vienna ).
  • the funds Schubert of the Library of Vienna, (2001), ( Library of Vienna, Vienna ).
  • the Atlas Joan Blaeu of Laurens Van der Hem (1621-1678) of the Austrian National library, (2003).
  • Collection Brahms, (2005).
  • Collection of drawings of Gothic architecture, (2005).
the collection of 425 drawings of Gothic architecture, whose size goes from 5 cm to 4,5 m, is single and essential to the study of the architecture of the Gothic period, which goes from the middle of the 12th century in the middle of the 16th century.

Belgium

  • Files of Officina Plantiniana (2001), ( Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp ).
the Plantiniennes Files, including/understanding the accountancy of printing works and publisher dating from the Rebirth and the time baroque, the accounts books commercial and the correspondence with several scientists and humanistic of world famous, bear exceptional witness on a cultural tradition of first order.

Denmark

  • Collection of the files of the Danish companies of foreign trade, (1997), ( Public records, Copenhagen ).
  • the Linné Collection, (1997), ( National library of sciences and medicine, Library of the University of Copenhagen ).
  • Manuscripts and correspondences of Hans Christian Andersen, (1997), ( royal Library, Copenhagen ).
  • the Files Søren Kierkegaard, (1997), ( royal Library, Copenhagen ).

Finland

France

  • Declaration of the human rights and the citizen (1789-1791), (2003).
the generic heading of “ Declaration of the human rights and the citizen ” recovers a whole of various documents having milked with the proclamation and the coming into effect of the text and which take direction one compared to the other. It is by their meeting which one includes/understands the range as well symbolic system as policy of the Declaration, as well as the historical context in which it was written.
This inscription is the result of a joint proposal of the Public records and National library of France. The files have a whole of documents, of which the handwritten original version of the Declaration of the human rights and the citizen of 1789. Confrontation of all the existing alternatives of the text of the Declaration, it arises that one is in the presence of six different states, since the beginning of the debates until the promulgation of the Constitution of 1791 and not, as always seem to indicate it the historians and to let it think the collective memory, of a single text. Also appear in this unit, a ticket autograph of bearing Louis XVI acceptance of the preceding text: “ I accept purely and simply the articles of the Constitution and the Declaration of the Human rights which the National Assembly presented to me . The October 5th 1789. Louis”.
the National library has, as for it, the first edition of the Declaration of the human rights and the citizen developed during the summer 1789 by the National Assembly in Paris. This edition is the first element of diffusion near the political community as well as the first printed trace of the first constitutional articles existing in France. In the historical plan, the importance of this specimen is capital. Extract of the official reports of the National Assembly, of the 20,21,22,23, August 24th, 26th and th and October 1st, 1789. Declaration of the human rights in S.l.n.d. company (published by Baudoin, printed with Versailles in 1789). This part supplements the whole of the Historical center of the Public records. She is undoubtedly the very first edition of the official reports in question. Indeed, Baudoin, member of the assembly of the Third state of Paris for the election with the General states of 1789, had been named printer of the National Assembly in June 1789 and had been charged with the edition of the impression of the official reports of the meetings.

  • the Call of June 18th, 1940, (2005).

the call of the June 18th of the General De Gaulle, broadcast London bound for the France by BBC, launched with a turning of the Second world war and French history, is one of the strongest expressions of the history of the radio. The inscription, suggested by the National institute of audio-visual the (INA, France) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, the United Kingdom), relates to four documents considered as key testimonys of the event: the manuscript of the text of the broadcast Call of June 18th, the radiophonic recording of the Call of the June 22nd, the manuscript of the poster of the August 3rd and post it itself.

  • films of the Brothers Light (2005).

It acts of 1.405 original films produced by the pioneers of the cinema, mainly between 1896 and 1900. This collection proposed by the National center of cinematography (CNC) contains an abundant documentary material on France and other areas of the world, and in particular the first cinematographic testimonys of leading personalities, like the queen Victoria, the king Humbert I {{er}} of Italy. The collection is with the French Archives of the film.

  • introduction of the Metric system decimal, 1790 - 1837, (2005).

At the origin of the current international system of units, the Metric system decimal, was born in the revolutionary France then overflowed of its national framework to be adopted universally, almost everywhere, almost for all. This inscription is composed of the original text of the proposal made in 1790 with the National Assembly on the weights and measures by the bishop of Autun (Talleyrand), and of the official texts on this subject of 1791 with 1837. Y also appear, with their cases, the standard prototype of the meter, manufactured out of platinum by Lenoir in 1799 and the prototype standard of the kilogram, manufactured out of platinum by Fortin the same year. The collection is preserved by the Historical center of the Public records, with Paris.

Hungary

  • the patent application “Radioskop” of Kálmán Tihanyi (1926), (2001), ( Public records of Hungary, Budapest).
  • the Library Corvina ( Bibliotheca Corviniana ), (2005).
Corvina was, with the Rebirth, the largest collection of books of Europe after that of the Vatican. It included/understood works written for the king Mathias Corvin (1458 - 1490), as of the copies of the most important texts that one knew at that time.

Italy

  • the Library of Malatesta Novello, (2005).
It includes/understands, in addition to the philosopher's stones of the medieval culture, the fruits of the tradition traditional Latin, Greek, Hebraic and Arab. It is a single example of library of Quattrocento, with the threshold of the invention of printing works.

Latvia

  • Dainu skapis - Cabinet of folk songs, (2001), ( Files of the Latvian Folklore, Rīga ).

Luxembourg

  • Family off Man, (2003).

Norway

  • files of the leprosy of Bergen, (2001), ( regional and municipal Files of State of the town of Bergen, Bergen ).
  • Henrik Ibsen : Doll's house, (2001), ( National library of Norway, Oslo ).
  • Forwarding of Roald Amundsen with the South pole (1910-1912), (2005).

Netherlands

Poland

  • the masterpiece of Nicolas Copernic: “Of revolutionibus libri sex”, (1999), ( Jagellon University, Jagellon Library, Cracow ).
  • Files of the Ghetto of Warsaw (Files Emanuel Ringelblum), (1999), ( Research institute histories Jew, Warsaw ).
  • Chiefs of work of Frederic Chopin, (1999), ( the Company Fryderyk Chopin, Warsaw ).
  • the Act of the General confederation of Warsaw of 1573, treating religious tolerance, (2003).
  • Twenty and one claims, Gdańsk, August 1980. Birth of the trade union Solidarność: a social movement of great scale, (2003).

Portugal

the United Kingdom

This film, made in 1916, is the documentary first feature-length film on the war. Remaining a symbol of the time, it revêt also of the importance as a showpiece of the collection of films of the imperial Museum of the war which shelters its older copy.

Russia

  • 1997 :
    • évangéliaires of Arkhangelsk of 1092, ( Russian Library of State, Moscow ).
    • évangéliaires of Khitrovo, ( Library of State Russian, Moscow ).
    • Publications into Cyrillic Slavic of the 15th century, ( Library of State Russian, Moscow ]].
    • Collection of newspapers, ( Library of State Russian, Moscow ).
    • Charts of the Russian Empire of the 18th century, ( Library of State Russian, Moscow ).
    • Russian Posters end XIXe and beginning 20th century, ( Library of State Russian, Moscow ).
  • 2001 :
    • Historical Collections (1889-1955) of the Phonographic Files of Saint-Pétersbourg, ( Russian Institute of Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersbourg ).

Serbia and Montenegro

Slovakia

  • Handwritten enluminés of the Library of the Chapter of Bratislava, (1997), ( Public records, Bratislava ).
  • the Basagic collection - Islamic Manuscripts, (1997), ( College library, Bratislava ).

Sweden

This collection of approximately 20.000 pages, joined together by the man of letters, Theologist, Philosopher and Scientifique Swedish Emanuel Swedenborg is one of the largest collections of Manuscrit S of the 18th century and one of rare of modern times which were used as base with the new Christian Church. It is preserved by the royal Académie of sciences of Sweden whose Swedenborg was member.

Ukraine

  • Collection of Jewish popular musics (1912-1947), (2005).

Oceania

Australia

  • the log book of Endeavor, ship of James Cook (2001), ( National library of Australia, Canberra )
  • manuscripts of the business Mabo (2001), ( National library of Australia, Canberra ).

New Zealand

  • Treated of Waitangi (1997) - Te Tiriti O Waitangi, ( Public records, Wellington ).
  • Petition of 1893 in favor of the right to vote for the women (1997), ( Public records, Wellington ).

See too

External bonds

  • the site of the program “'' Mémoire of the world ''” of UNESCO

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