Austria to Vietnam, with 11 first time contributors. Bulgaria, Fiji, Guyana, Ireland, Japan, Mongolia, Morocco, Panama, Suriname, Switzerland, Tunisia - UNESCO will be adding “inscriptions” to the Memory of the World Program, full list by country follows). Irina Bokova, UNESCO’s Director General endorsed recommendations by the International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Committee to inscribe collections from all over the world on the Memory of the World Register, which now numbers a total of 238 items.



Books, Recordings, Parchments, Inscriptions & More
The Memory of the World Register covers all types of material and support, including stone, celluloid, parchment, audio recordings and more. “By helping safeguard and share such a varied documentary heritage, UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme reinforces the basis for scholarship and enjoyment of the creative wealth and diversity of human cultures and societies,” the Director-General said today. UNESCO launched the Memory of the World Programme in 1992 to guard against collective amnesia through the preservation of the valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world and ensuring their wide dissemination.



New items inscribed:

Austria
Mainz Psalter at the Austrian National Library (Austria)
Arnold Schönberg Estate

Barbados, Jamaica, Panama, Saint Lucia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America
Silver Men: West Indian Labourers at the Panama Canal

Bolivia
Documentary Fonds of Royal Audiencia Court of La Plata (RALP)

Brazil
Fonds of the Network of information and counter information of the military regime in Brazil

Bulgaria
Enina Apostolos,Old Bulgarian Cyrillic manuscript (fragment)of the 11th century

China
Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia Medica)
Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon)

Czech Republic
Collection of 526 prints of university theses from 1637-1754

Denmark
MS.GKS 4 2°,vol.I-III,Biblia Latina.Commonly called "the Hamburg Bible",or "the Bible of Bertoldus".

Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Documentary Heritage of the Indian Indentured Labourers

France
Bibliothèque de Beatus Rhenanus

Germany
Construction and Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Two-Plus-Four-Treaty of 1990
Patent DRP 37435 "Vehicle with gas engine operation" submitted by Carl Benz, Mannheim (29 January 1886)

India
'Laghukalachakratantrarajatlka' (Vimalprabha)
Tarikh-E-Khandan-E-Timuriyah

Indonesia and the Netherlands
La Galigo

Iran
A Collection of Nezami's Khamseh
Al-Tafhim li Awa'il Sana'at al-Tanjim (The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology)

Ireland
Book of Kells

Italy
Lucca's Historical Diocesan Archives (ASDLU): Early Middle Ages documents

Japan
Sakubei Yamamoto Collection

Korea, Republic of
Human Rights Documentary Heritage 1980 Archives for the May 18th Democratic Uprising against Military Regime, in Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Ilseongnok: the Records of Daily Reflections

Mexico
Sixteenth to eighteenth century pictographs from the record group "Maps, drawings and illustrations

Mongolia
Lu."Altan Tobchi" - Golden History written in 1651

Mongolian Tanjur

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

Netherlands
Desmet Collection

Netherlands, Brazil, Ghana, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, United Kingdom, United States of America
Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) Archives

Netherlands, Curacao and Suriname
Archive Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (MCC)

Norway
Thor Heyerdahl Archives

Philippines
Presidential Papers of Manuel L. Quezon

Poland
Archive of Warsaw Reconstruction Office

Russian Federation
Ostromir Gospel (1056-1057)
Leo Tolstoy's Personal Library and Manuscripts, Photo and Film Collection

Saint Kitts and Nevis
Registry of Slaves of Bermuda 1821 -1834 (an addendum to Slaves of the British Caribbean 1817-1834, inscribed in 2009)

Sweden
Stockholm City Planning Committee Archives
Codex Argenteus -the 'Silver Bible

Switzerland
Les Collections Jean-Jacques Rousseau de Genève et de Neuchâtel

Thailand
The Epigraphic Archives of Wat Pho

Trinidad and Tobago
The Constantine Collection

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

United Kingdom
Historic Ethnographic Recordings (1898 - 1951) at the British Library

Viet Nam
Stone Stele Records of Royal Examinations of the Le and Mac Dynasties (1442-1779)



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