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✨ Archives of Leoš Janáček
collected papers of the Czech composer Leoš Janáček
Czech Republic 2017
Collection of 526 prints of university theses from 1637-1754
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Czech Republic, added in 2011
Czech Republic 2011
Collection of Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian émigré periodicals 1918-1945
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Czech Republic, added in 2007
Czech Republic 2007
Collection of cartographic documents by Pavel Josef Šafařík
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Czechia, added 2025
Czech Republic 2025
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Czech Republic, added in 2007
Czech Republic 2007
Libri Prohibiti: Collection of periodicals of Czech and Slovak Samizdat in the years 1948-1989
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Czech Republic, added in 2013
Czech Republic 2013
Moll’s collection
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2023
Czech Republic 2023
Situation plans of towns and villages of Jewish settlement in the Habsburg Empire
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Czechia, added 2025
Czech Republic 2025
The Archives of Antonín Dvořák
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2023
Czech Republic 2023
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2017
Czech Republic 2017
The moving picture shows of Émile Reynaud
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2015
Czech Republic France 2015
Drawings and writings of children during wartime in Europe: 1914-1950
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Canada, Czechia, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, added 2025
Basagic Collection of Islamic Manuscripts
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Slovakia, added in 1997
Slovakia 1997
Illuminated Codices from the Library of the Bratislava Chapter House
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Slovakia, added in 1997
Slovakia 1997
Mining maps and plans of the Main Chamber - Count Office in Banská Štiavnica
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Slovakia, added in 2007
Slovakia 2007
Codex Suprasliensis – Mineia četia, Mart (The Supraśl Codex – Menology, March)
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Poland, Russian Federation and Slovenia, added in 2007
Boril’s Synodicon
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2017
Bulgaria 2017
Enina Apostolos, Old Bulgarian Cyrillic manuscript (fragment) of the 11th century
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Bulgaria, added in 2011
Bulgaria 2011
Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2017
Bulgaria United Kingdom 2017
✨ Codex Beratinus
illuminated manuscript
Albania 2005
Marubi National Museum of Photography: Archive of negatives, objects and documents of the Pietro Marubbi and Kel Marubi
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Albania, added 2025
Albania 2025
Andrija Štampar’s diaries (1931-1938)
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Croatia, added 2025
Croatia 2025
Archives of the Republic of Dubrovnik (1022-1808)
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2023
Croatia 2023
Short films of the Zagreb School of Animated Films (1956 – 1979)
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Croatia, added 2025
Croatia 2025
🌟 Tabula Hungariae
earliest surviving printed map of Hungary
Croatia Austria 2007
Manuscript collection of the Gazi Husrev-Beg Library
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2017
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2017
🌟 Sarajevo Haggadah
illuminated Hebrew manuscript
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2017
Flower Book of Khurshidbanu Natavan – album of illustrated verses
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2023
Azerbaijan 2023
Medieval manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Azerbaijan, added in 2005
Azerbaijan 2005
The copy of the manuscript of Mahammad Fuzuli’s “divan”
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2017
Azerbaijan 2017
Georgian Byzantine Manuscripts
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Georgia, added in 2011
Georgia 2011
The Oldest Manuscripts Preserved at the National Archives of Georgia
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2015
Georgia 2015
The Tetraevangelion-palimpsest
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2017
Georgia 2017
“Description of Georgian Kingdom” and the Geographical Atlas of Vakhushti Bagrationi
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Georgia, added in 2013
Georgia 2013
Manuscript Collection of Shota Rustaveli's Poem "Knight in the Panther's Skin"
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Georgia and United Kingdom, added in 2013
Georgia United Kingdom 2013
Aral Sea Archival Fonds
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Kazakhstan, added in 2011
Kazakhstan 2011
Audiovisual documents of the International antinuclear movement “Nevada-Semipalatinsk”
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Kazakhstan, added in 2005
Kazakhstan 2005
Collection of the manuscripts of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Kazakhstan, added in 2003
Kazakhstan 2003
Petrus de Caxaro’s Kantilena
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Malta, added 2025
Malta 2025
Camocio Maps
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2017
Malta Czech Republic 2017
Vita Sanctorum Marini et Leonis, Manuscript MS F.III.16, Turin, Italy
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Croatia, Italy and San Marino, added 2025
✨ An African Song or Chant from Barbados
music manuscript with UNESCO Memory of the World status
Barbados United Kingdom 2017
✨ Babad Diponegoro
Autobiographical chronicle of prince Diponegoro
Indonesia Netherlands 2013
Kartini Letters and Archive: the struggle for gender equality
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Indonesia and the Netherlands, added 2025
Indonesia Netherlands 2025
La Galigo
14th century to 20th century literary work
Indonesia Netherlands 2011
The West India Committee collection
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2016
✨ Archive Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (MCC)
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by the Netherlands, Curacao and Suriname, added in 2011
Documentary heritage of the enslaved people of the Dutch Caribbean and their descendants (1816-1969)
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2023
Camiu't Tevarih/Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Türkiye and Uzbekistan, added 2025
Uzbekistan Turkey 2025
🌟 Book of Kells
8th-century illuminated manuscript Gospel book, held in Trinity College, Dublin
Ireland 2011
The Irish Folklore Commission Collection 1935-1970
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2017
Ireland 2017
Csoma Archive of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Hungary, added in 2009
Hungary 2009
János Bolyai: Appendix, scientiam spatii absolute veram exhibens. Maros-Vásárhelyini, 1832
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Hungary, added in 2009
Hungary 2009
Kalman Tihanyi’s 1926 Patent Application Radioskop
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Hungary, added in 2001
Hungary 2001
Semmelweis' discovery
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Hungary, added in 2013
Hungary 2013
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2015
Hungary 2015
✨ Arolsen Archives
centre for documentation, information and research on Nazi persecution, forced labour and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and its occupied regions
Arolsen Archives 2013
Arabic letters
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Spain, added 2025
Spain 2025
✨ Archives of Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Spanish Neurohistological School
archive of neurology materials on the UNESCO Memory of the World register
Spain 2017
Archives of the European War Office in Madrid (1915-1921)
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Spain, added 2025
Spain 2025
✨ Archivo General de Simancas
cultural property in Simancas, Spain
Spain 2017
✨ Archivo de Simón Ruiz
documentary heritage on the Memory of the World international register, added 2023
Spain 2023
🌟 Capitulations of Santa Fe
signed document between Christopher Columbus and the rulers of Spain
Spain 2009
Indigenous language vocabulary from the New World translated into Spanish
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2015
Spain 2015
✨ Peasant Syndicate Book
manuscript record of meetings in 1448 and 1449
Spain 2013
Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the Smallpox Vaccine, 1800-1820
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2023
Spain 2023
The Decreta of León of 1188 - The oldest documentary manifestation of the European parliamentary system
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Spain, added in 2013
Spain 2013
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Japan and Spain, added in 2013
Spain Japan 2013
John Marshall Ju-’hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by the United States of America, added in 2009
United States 2009
Landsat Program records: Multispectral Scanner (MSS) sensors
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by United States of America, added in 2011
United States 2011
Moses and Frances Asch Collection. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2015
United States 2015
Permanent Collection of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by United States of America, added in 2013
United States 2013
🌟 The Wizard of Oz
1939 movie based on the book by L. Frank Baum
United States 2007
Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque Lustrationes
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by United States of America, added in 2005
United States 2005
✨ Archives Insolvente Boedelskamer Antwerpen
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Belgium, added in 2009
Belgium 2009
✨ Business Archives of the Officina Plantiniana
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Belgium, added in 2001
Belgium 2001
The Archives of the University of Leuven (1425-1797): University Heritage of Global Significance
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Belgium, added in 2013
Belgium 2013
The archives, engravings and manuscripts used by the Bollandists (17th-18th centuries)
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Belgium, added 2025
Belgium 2025
✨ Universal Bibliographic Repertory
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Belgium, added in 2013
Belgium 2013
🌟 The Family of Man
photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen
Luxembourg 2003
Edvard Westermarck’s Archives at Åbo Akademi University Library
Memory of the World inscription, nominated by Finland, added 2025
Finland 2025
Gustaf Erikson Shipping Company archives in the Åland Islands from the era of the last Windjammers in global trade 1913-1949
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2023
Finland 2023
Skolt Sámi community archive, stored in Inari, Finland
Finland 2015
The A.E. Nordenskiöld Collection
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Finland, added in 1997
Finland 1997
Key documents for Deaf communities: the Milan Congress, 1880
Memory of the World international register inscription, added 2023
Finland United States 2023
✨ Architectural drawings from Stockholm
archival collection of drawings of buildings built in Stockholm between 1713 and 1978
Sweden 2011
✨ Astrid Lindgren Archives
private archives of Astrid Lindgren at the National Library of Sweden, Memory of the World since 2005
Sweden 2005
🌟 Codex Argenteus
6th-century Gothic bible manuscript
Sweden 2011
✨ Dag Hammarskjöld Collection
private archive collection
Sweden 2017
✨ Emanuel Swedenborg collection
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Sweden, added in 2005
Sweden 2005
✨ Ingmar Bergman archive
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Sweden, added in 2007
Sweden 2007
✨ Karl Tirén's collection of sami yoik
archive with recordings of sami yoik recorded by Karl Tirén between 1913-1915
Sweden 2025
✨ Ravensbrück archive in Lund
archive of interviews with survivors from Ravensbrück
Sweden 2025
✨ The Alfred Nobel Family Archives
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Sweden, added in 2007
Sweden 2007
The Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance of 1766
collection of documents on the Memory of the World international register
Sweden 2023
Archives of the Danish overseas trading companies
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Denmark, added in 1997
Denmark 1997
✨ El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Peruvian chronicle finished around 1615 by Felipe Huamán Poma de Ayala
Denmark 2007
✨ Hamburg Bible
Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Denmark, added in 2011
Denmark 2011
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