The International Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World-Programme includes inscriptions from Europe and North America.[1], the region has 274 (or 52%) inscriptions of the 432 total inscriptions included in the Register.[2]
The first inscriptions on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register were made in 1997.[3] By creating a compendium of the world's documentary heritage – such as manuscripts, oral traditions, audio-visual materials, and library and archive holdings[4] – the program aims to tap on its networks of experts to exchange information and raise resources for the preservation, digitization, and dissemination of documentary materials.[5] Among the various properties in the Register include recordings of folk music; ancient languages and phonetics; aged remnants of religious and secular manuscripts; collective lifetime works of renowned giants of literature; science and music; copies of landmark motion pictures and short films; and accounts documenting changes in the world's political, economic, and social stage.
, the region has 274 (or 52%) inscriptions of the 432 total inscriptions included in the Register.
| 1 | Germany | 23 | |
| United Kingdom | 23 (22 main + 1 additional) | ||
| 3 | Poland | 17 | |
| 4 | Netherlands | 16 | |
| 6 | Austria | 15 | |
| 7 | Russia | 14 | |
| 8 | France | 13 | |
| 11 | Spain | 11 | |
| United States | 11 | ||
| 13 | Portugal | 10 | |
| 17 | Czech Republic | 8 | |
| Denmark | 8 | ||
| Italy | 8 | ||
| 21 | Canada | 7 | |
| Hungary | 7 | ||
| Sweden | 7 | ||
| Turkey | 7 | ||
| 26 | Israel | 6 (5 main + 1 additional) | |
| Norway | 6 | ||
| 31 | Belgium | 5 | |
| Georgia | 5 | ||
| Switzerland | 5 | ||
| 38 | Armenia | 4 | |
| Ukraine | 4 | ||
| 42 | |||
| Bulgaria | 3 | ||
| Finland | 3 | ||
| Latvia | 3 | ||
| Lithuania | 3 | ||
| Serbia | 3 | ||
| Slovakia | 3 | ||
| 64 | Azerbaijan | 2 | |
| Belarus | 2 | ||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | ||
| Iceland | 2 | ||
| Ireland | 2 | ||
| 84 | Albania | 1 | |
| Croatia | 1 | ||
| Estonia | 1 | ||
| Greece | 1 | ||
| Luxembourg | 1 | ||
| Malta | 1 | ||
| Slovenia | 1 | ||
| Total | 274 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Documentary heritage | Country/Territory | Custodian(s), Location(s) | Year inscribed | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codex Purpureus Beratinus | Albania | National Archives of Albania, Tirana41.3026°N 19.8125°W | 2005 | [6] |
| Mashtots Matenadaran ancient manuscripts collection | Armenia | Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan40.1919°N 44.5209°W | 1997 | [7] |
| First Byurakan Survey (FBS or Markarian survey) | Armenia | Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory,Armenian National Academy of Sciences40.3304°N 44.2734°W | 2011 | [8] |
| Collection of note manuscripts and film music of Composer Aram Khachaturian | Armenia | House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian40.1903°N 44.5133°W | 2013 | [9] |
| Collection of Works of the Composer Komitas Vardapet | Armenia | Komitas Museum-Institute40.1626°N 44.5025°W | 2023 | [10] |
| Vienna Dioscurides | Austria | Austrian National Library, Vienna48.2062°N 16.3667°W | 1997 | [11] |
| Austria | Austrian State Archives, Vienna48.1918°N 16.4124°W | 1997 | [12] | |
| The Historical Collections (1899–1950) of the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv | Austria | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna48.2097°N 16.385°W | 1999 | [13] |
| Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer | Austria | Austrian National Library, Vienna48.2062°N 16.3667°W | 2001 | [14] |
| The Vienna City Library Schubert Collection | Austria | Vienna City Library, Vienna48.2114°N 16.3579°W | 2001 | [15] |
| Austria | Austrian National Library, Vienna48.2062°N 16.3667°W | 2003 | [16] | |
| Brahms Collection | Austria | Society of Friends of Music, Vienna48.2007°N 16.3728°W | 2005 | [17] |
| Collection of Gothic Architectural Drawings | Austria | Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna48.2012°N 16.3651°W | 2005 | [18] |
| The Tabula Peutingeriana | Austria | Austrian National Library, Vienna48.2062°N 16.3667°W | 2007 | [19] |
| The Bibliotheca Corviniana Collection | Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy |
| 2005 | [20] |
| Arnold Schönberg Estate | Austria | Arnold Schönberg Center Private Foundation48.1992°N 16.3776°W | 2011 | [21] |
| Mainz Psalter at the Austrian National Library | Austria | Austrian National Library, Vienna48.2062°N 16.3667°W | 2011 | [22] |
| The Documents on the Semmering Railway from the Imperial & Royal Historical Museum of Austrian Railways | Austria | Vienna Technical Museum48.1909°N 16.318°W | 2017 | [23] |
| Medieval manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy | Azerbaijan | Institute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan, National Academy of Sciences, Baku40.3698°N 49.8362°W | 2005 | [24] |
| The copy of the manuscript of Mahammad Fuzuli's "divan" | Azerbaijan | Institute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan, National Academy of Sciences40.3698°N 49.8362°W | 2017 | [25] |
| Radziwills’ Archives and Niasvizh (Nieśwież) Library Collection | Belarus, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine |
| 2009 | [26] |
| Belgium | Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp51.2185°N 4.3979°W | 2001 | [27] | |
| Archives Insolvente Boedelskamer Antwerpen | Belgium | Municipal Archives Antwerp, Antwerp51.2275°N 4.4078°W | 2009 | [28] |
| The Archives of the University of Leuven (1425-1797) | Belgium |
| 2013 | [29] |
| Universal Bibliographic Repertory | Belgium | Mundaneum asbl50.4575°N 3.9565°W | 2013 | [30] |
| Manuscript collection of the Gazi Husrev-beg Library | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Gazi Husrev-beg Library43.8597°N 18.4284°W | 2017 | [31] |
| The Sarajevo Haggadah manuscript | Bosnia and Herzegovina | National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina43.855°N 18.4026°W | 2017 | [32] |
| Enina Apostolos, a Cyrillic manuscript fragment of the 11th century in Old Bulgarian language | Bulgaria | SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia42.6949°N 23.3357°W | 2011 | [33] |
| Boril's Synodicon | Bulgaria | SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia42.6949°N 23.3357°W | 2017 | [34] |
| Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander | Bulgaria, United Kingdom | SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia42.6949°N 23.3357°W | 2017 | [35] |
| Canada | Archives of Manitoba, Winnipeg49.8885°N -97.1486°W | 2007 | [36] | |
| Quebec Seminary Collection, 1623-1800 (17th-19th centuries) | Canada | Musée de la civilisation, Quebec City46.8152°N -71.2023°W | 2007 | [37] |
| Neighbours, animated, directed and produced by Norman McLaren in 1952 | Canada | National Film Board of Canada, Montréal45.5071°N -73.5683°W | 2009 | [38] |
| The Discovery of Insulin and its Worldwide Impact | Canada | Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library43.6641°N -79.399°W | 2013 | [39] |
| Marshall McLuhan The Archives of the Future | Canada | 2017 | [40] | |
| Mixed Traces and Memories of the continents - The Sound of the French people of America | Canada | Cinémathèque québécoise45.5138°N -73.5626°W | 2017 | [41] |
| Philosophical Nachlass of Ludwig Wittgenstein | Canada, Austria, Netherlands, United Kingdom |
| 2017 | [42] |
| Czech Republic | National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague50.0865°N 14.4158°W | 2007 | [43] | |
| Collection of Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian émigré periodicals 1918-1945 | Czech Republic | National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague50.0865°N 14.4158°W | 2007 | [44] |
| Collection of 526 prints of university theses from 1637 to 1754 | Czech Republic | National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague50.0865°N 14.4158°W | 2011 | [45] |
| Libri Prohibiti Collection of periodicals of Czech and Slovak Samizdat in the years 1948-1989 | Czech Republic | Libri Prohibiti Library50.0859°N 14.4298°W | 2013 | [46] |
| Archives of Leoš Janáček | Czech Republic | Department of the History of Music, Moravian Museum49.1918°N 16.6085°W | 2017 | [47] |
| Camocio Maps | Czech Republic, Malta |
| 2017 | [48] |
| The Kynzvart Daguerreotype – The Birth of Modern Visual Media | Czech Republic | National Heritage Institute50.0902°N 14.4049°W | 2017 | [49] |
| The Linné Collection | Denmark | Danish National Library of Sciences and Medicine, Copenhagen55.6971°N 12.5608°W | 1997 | [50] |
| Manuscripts and correspondence of Hans Christian Andersen | Denmark | Royal Library, Copenhagen55.6734°N 12.5827°W | 1997 | [51] |
| The Søren Kierkegaard Archives | Denmark | Royal Library, Copenhagen55.6734°N 12.5827°W | 1997 | [52] |
| Archives of the Danish overseas trading companies | Denmark | Danish National Archives, Copenhagen55.6734°N 12.5827°W | 1997 | [53] |
| Denmark | Royal Library, Copenhagen55.6734°N 12.5827°W | 2007 | [54] | |
| Sound Toll Registers | Denmark | Danish National Archives, Copenhagen55.6734°N 12.5827°W | 2007 | [55] |
| MS. GKS 4 2°, vol. I-III, Biblia Latina. Commonly called "the Hamburg Bible", or "the Bible of Bertoldus" | Denmark | Royal Library, Copenhagen55.6734°N 12.5827°W | 2011 | [56] |
| Denmark, Iceland |
| 2009 | [57] | |
| The Baltic Way - Human Chain Linking Three States in their Drive for Freedom | Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania |
| 2009 | [58] |
| The A.E. Nordenskiöld Collection | Finland | University Library, Helsinki60.1714°N 24.9488°W | 1997 | [59] |
| Archive of the Skolt Sámi village of Suonjel Suenjel | Finland | The Sámi Archives68.9077°N 27.0126°W | 2015 | [60] |
| Original Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789–1791) | France | National Library of France, Paris48.8336°N 2.3758°W | 2003 | [61] |
| Introduction of the decimal metric system, 1790–1837 | France | National Historical Archives Centre, Paris48.86°N 2.3572°W | 2005 | [62] |
| Lumière Films | France | Archives Françaises du Film48.8049°N 2.0341°W | 2005 | [63] |
| France | William the Conqueror Centre, Bayeux49.2743°N -0.7°W | 2007 | [64] | |
| Library of the Cistercian Abbey of Clairvaux at the time of Pierre de Virey (1472) | France |
| 2009 | [65] |
| The Beatus Rhenanus Library | France | Humanist Library, Sélestat48.2604°N 7.455°W | 2011 | [66] |
| Bannière Register at Chatelet, Paris, during the reign of François I (National Archives Y9, France) | France | National Historical Archives Centre, Paris | 2011 | [67] |
| Louis Pasteur's Archive | France |
| 2015 | [68] |
| The Mappa mundi of Albi | France | Médiathèque d'Albi Pierre-Amalric43.9237°N 2.1427°W | 2015 | [69] |
| France, United Kingdom |
| 2005 | [70] | |
| The moving picture shows of Émile Reynaud | France, Czech Republic |
| 2015 | [71] |
| Archives of | France | Community of Briance, Sud Haute-Vienne 45.6956°N 1.358°W | 2017 | [72] |
| Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, restored 35 mm negative; Audio Archive Witnesses to the History of Shoah, 200 hours | France, Germany | Les films ALEPH SARL, Paris48.8637°N 2.3477°W | 2023 | [73] |
| "Description of Georgian Kingdom" and the Geographical Atlas of Vakhushti Bagrationi | Georgia | National Archives of Georgia41.7281°N 44.7678°W | 2013 | [74] |
| Georgian Byzantine Manuscripts | Georgia | National Centre of Manuscripts41.7176°N 44.783°W | 2011 | [75] |
| Manuscript Collection of Shota Rustaveli's Poem "Knight in the Panther's Skin" | Georgia, United Kingdom | National Centre of Manuscripts41.7176°N 44.783°W | 2013 | [76] |
| The Oldest Manuscripts Preserved at the National Archives of Georgia | Georgia | National Archives of Georgia41.7281°N 44.7678°W | 2015 | [77] |
| The Tetraevangelion-palimpsest | Georgia | National Archives of Georgia41.7281°N 44.7678°W | 2017 | [78] |
| Early cylinder recordings of the world's musical traditions (1893–1952) in the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv | Germany | Museum of Ethnology, Berlin52.456°N 13.2937°W | 1999 | [79] |
| Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony n°9, d-minor, op.125 | Germany | State Library, Berlin52.5175°N 13.3916°W | 2001 | [80] |
| The literary estate of Goethe in the Goethe and Schiller Archives | Germany | Goethe and Schiller Archives, Weimar50.9831°N 11.3339°W | 2001 | [81] |
| 42-line Gutenberg Bible, printed on vellum, and its contemporary documentary background | Germany | Göttingen State and University Library, Göttingen51.5392°N 9.936°W | 2001 | [82] |
| Metropolis -Sicherungsstück Nr. 1: Negative of the restored and reconstructed version 2001 | Germany | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Wiesbaden50.0662°N 8.2491°W | 2001 | [83] |
| Illuminated manuscripts from the Ottonian period produced in the monastery of Reichenau (Lake Constance) | Germany | Bavarian State Library48.1475°N 11.5803°W | 2003 | [84] |
| Kinder-und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales) | Germany | Brother Grimm's Museum, Kassel51.3099°N 9.494°W | 2005 | [85] |
| Universalis Cosmographia (Waldseemüller map) | Germany, United States | Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.38.8887°N -77.0054°W | 2005 | [86] |
| Letters from and to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz within the collection of manuscript papers of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Germany | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library, Hanover52.3653°N 9.7309°W | 2007 | [87] |
| Song of the Nibelungs, a heroic poem from mediaeval Europe | Germany |
| 2009 | [88] |
| Patent DRP 37435 "Vehicle with gas engine operation" submitted by Carl Benz, 1886 | Germany | Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim49.4761°N 8.4974°W | 2011 | [89] |
| Construction and Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Two-Plus-Four-Treaty of 1990 | Germany | State Archive of Hamburg53.5749°N 10.0689°W | 2011 | [90] |
| Lorsch Pharmacopoeia (The Bamberg State Library, Msc.Med.1) | Germany | Bamberg State Library49.8918°N 10.8823°W | 2013 | [91] |
| Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei, draft manuscript page and Das Kapital. Erster Band, Karl Marx's personal annotated copy | Germany, Netherlands | International Institute of Social History52.3689°N 4.9392°W | 2013 | [92] |
| Nebra sky disc | Germany | Halle State Museum of Prehistory51.4981°N 11.9625°W | 2013 | [93] |
| The "Golden Bull" – All seven originals and the "King Wenceslaus' luxury manuscript copy" of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek | Germany, Austria |
| 2013 | [94] |
| Documents representing the beginning and the early development of the Reformation initiated by Martin Luther | Germany |
| 2015 | [95] |
| Autograph of h-Moll-Messe (Mass in B minor) by Johann Sebastian Bach | Germany | State Library, Berlin52.5175°N 13.3916°W | 2015 | [96] |
| The Golden Letter of the Burmese King Alaungphaya to King George II of Great Britain | Germany, United Kingdom, Myanmar |
| 2015 | [97] |
| Al-Masaalik Wa Al-Mamaalik | Germany, Iran |
| 2015 | [98] |
| Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial | Germany | Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv50.0632°N 8.2393°W | 2017 | [99] |
| Constitutio Antoniniana | Germany | Universitätsbibliothek Giessen50.5761°N 8.6954°W | 2017 | [100] |
| Derveni Papyrus | Greece | Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki40.6252°N 22.9538°W | 2015 | [101] |
| Kálmán Tihanyi's 1926 Patent Application "Radioskop" | Hungary | National Archives of Hungary, Budapest47.5048°N 19.0302°W | 2001 | [102] |
| Hungary, Croatia | National Széchényi Library, Budapest47.4952°N 19.0393°W | 2007 | [103] | |
| János Bolyai Appendix, scientiam spatii absolute veram exhibens. Maros-Vásárhelyini, 1832 | Hungary | Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest47.5017°N 19.0463°W | 2009 | [104] |
| The Csoma Archive of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Science | Hungary | Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest47.5017°N 19.0463°W | 2009 | [105] |
| Semmelweis' discovery | Hungary | Semmelweis Museum, Library and Archives of the History of Medicine47.4932°N 19.043°W | 2013 | [106] |
| Three documents related to the two most outstanding results of the work of Lorand Eötvös | Hungary | Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest47.5017°N 19.0463°W | 2015 | [107] |
| 1703 Census of Iceland | Iceland | National Archives of Iceland64.1423°N -21.9074°W | 2013 | [108] |
| Book of Kells | Ireland | Trinity College Library53.344°N -6.2568°W | 2011 | [109] |
| The Irish Folklore Commission Collection 1935-1970 | Ireland | National Folklore Collection, Newman Building, University College Dublin53.306°N -6.2216°W | 2017 | [110] |
| Pages of Testimony Collection, Yad Vashem Jerusalem, 1954-2004 | Israel | Yad Vashem31.7745°N 35.1749°W | 2013 | [111] |
| Rothschild Miscellany | Israel | The Israel Museum31.7719°N 35.2041°W | 2013 | [112] |
| Aleppo Codex | Israel | The Israel Museum31.7719°N 35.2041°W | 2015 | [113] |
| The Papers of Sir Isaac Newton | Israel | The National Library of Israel31.7761°N 35.1968°W | 2015 | [114] |
| Israel Folktale Archives | Israel | Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, The University of Haifa32.763°N 35.0178°W | 2017 | [115] |
| Italy | Malatesta Novello Library, Cesena44.1388°N 12.2438°W | 2005 | [116] | |
| Italy | Historical Diocesan Archive, Lucca43.8409°N 10.5071°W | 2011 | [117] | |
| The Newsreels and photographs of Istituto Nazionale Luce | Italy | Istituto Luce, Roma41.8496°N 12.5746°W | 2013 | [118] |
| Italy | Fondazione Barbanera 1762, Spello42.9817°N 12.6694°W | 2015 | [119] | |
| Italy, Mexico, Spain |
| 2015 | [120] | |
| Italy | Diocesan Museum, Rossano39.5749°N 16.6357°W | 2015 | [121] | |
| Antônio Carlos Gomes | Italy, Brazil |
| 2015 | [122] |
| Dainu skapis – Cabinet of Folksongs | Latvia | National Library of Latvia, Riga[123] 56.941°N 24.0966°W | 2001 | [124] |
| The Family of Man | Luxembourg | Clervaux Museum, Clervaux50.0543°N 6.0303°W | 2003 | |
| Netherlands | Portuguese-Jewish Seminary Ets Haim, Amsterdam52.3677°N 4.9048°W | 2003 | [125] | |
| Archives of the Dutch East India Company | Netherlands, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Sri Lanka |
| 2003 | [126] |
| The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank | Netherlands | Anne Frank House, Amsterdam52.3752°N 4.884°W | 2009 | [127] |
| Desmet Collection | Netherlands | EYE Film Instituut52.3844°N 4.9009°W | 2011 | [128] |
| The Leiden La Galigo manuscript | Netherlands, Indonesia | 2011 | [129] | |
| Archive Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (MCC) | Netherlands, Curacao, Suriname | Zeeuws Archief51.5014°N 3.6126°W | 2011 | [130] |
| Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) archives | Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Ghana, Brazil, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname |
| 2011 | [131] |
| Babad Diponegoro or Autobiographical Chronicle of Prince Diponegoro (1785-1855). A Javanese nobleman, Indonesian national hero and pan-Islamist | Netherlands, Indonesia |
| 2013 | [132] |
| Selected data collections of the world's language diversity at the Language Archive | Netherlands | The Language Archive of the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics51.818°N 5.8571°W | 2015 | [133] |
| Utrecht Psalter | Netherlands | Utrecht University52.0852°N 5.1755°W | 2015 | [134] |
| The Archive of the Amsterdam Notaries 1578-1915 | Netherlands | Amsterdam City Archives52.3646°N 4.8924°W | 2017 | [135] |
| Westerbork films | Netherlands | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision52.2354°N 5.1731°W | 2017 | [136] |
| Aletta H. Jacobs Papers | Netherlands, United States | Atria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women's History52.3658°N 4.8927°W | 2017 | [137] |
| First Catechism Written in Papiamentu Language | Netherlands Antilles | National Archives of the Netherlands Antilles, Willemstad12.1038°N -68.9238°W | 2009 | [138] |
| The Leprosy Archives of Bergen | Norway | City Archives and Regional State Archives of Bergen, Bergen60.3809°N 5.36°W | 2001 | [139] |
| Henrik Ibsen | Norway | National Library of Norway, Oslo59.914°N 10.7176°W | 2001 | [140] |
| Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition (1910–1912) | Norway |
| 2005 | [141] |
| Thor Heyerdahl's Archives (1914–2002) | Norway | 2005 | [142] | |
| Sophus Tromholt Collection | Norway | Bergen University Library60.3878°N 5.32°W | 2013 | [143] |
| The Castbergian Child Laws of 1915 | Norway | Archives of the Storting59.913°N 10.7401°W | 2017 | [144] |
| Autograph of Nicolaus Copernicus' masterpiece De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium | Poland | Jagiellonian University, Kraków50.061°N 19.9341°W | 1999 | [145] |
| Warsaw Ghetto Archives (Emanuel Ringelblum Archives) | Poland | Jewish Historical Research Institute, Warsaw52.2443°N 21.0028°W | 1999 | [146] |
| The Masterpieces of Fryderyk Chopin | Poland | The Fryderyk Chopin Society, Warsaw52.2366°N 21.0228°W | 1999 | [147] |
| The Confederation of Warsaw of 28 January 1573: Religious tolerance guaranteed | Poland | The Central Archives of Historical Records, Warsaw52.25°N 21.0083°W | 2003 | [148] |
| Twenty-One Demands, Gdańsk, August 1980: The birth of the Solidarity trade union – a massive social movement | Poland | The Polish Maritime Museum, Gdańsk54.3509°N 18.6589°W | 2003 | [149] |
| National Education Commission Archives | Poland |
| 2007 | [150] |
| Archives of the Literary Institute in Paris (1946–2000) | Poland | Association Institut Littéraire "Kultura", Paris48.9434°N 2.1306°W | 2009 | [151] |
| Codex Suprasliensis – Mineia četia, Mart (The Supraśl Codex – Menology, March) | Poland, Russia, Slovenia |
| 2007 | [152] |
| Archive of Warsaw Reconstruction Office | Poland | State Archives of the Capital City of Warsaw52.2506°N 21.0112°W | 2011 | [153] |
| Collections of the 19th century of the Polish Historical and Literary Society / Polish Library in Paris / Adam Mickiewicz Museum | Poland | Association de la Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris48.8514°N 2.3556°W | 2013 | [154] |
| Peace treaties (ahdnames) concluded from the mid-15th century to late-18th century between the Kingdom (or Republic) of Poland and the Ottoman Empire | Poland | The Central Archives of Historical Records, Warsaw52.25°N 21.0083°W | 2013 | [155] |
| The Book of Henryków | Poland | Kuria Metropolitalna Wrocławska51.1141°N 17.0447°W | 2015 | [156] |
| Files and library of the Unity of the Brethren | Poland |
| 2015 | [157] |
| Documents of Polish radio intelligence from the period of the Battle of Warsaw in 1920 | Poland | Central Military Archives of Poland52.264°N 21.1745°W | 2017 | [158] |
| Jürgen Stroop's Report | Poland | Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation52.1821°N 21.001°W | 2017 | [159] |
| The Act of the Union of Lublin document | Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia | The Central Archives of Historical Records, Warsaw52.25°N 21.0083°W | 2017 | [160] |
| Portugal | National Archives, Lisbon38.7547°N -9.1565°W | 2005 | [161] | |
| Corpo Cronológico (Collection of Manuscripts on the Portuguese Discoveries) | Portugal | Institute of National Archives, Lisbon38.7547°N -9.1565°W | 2007 | [162] |
| First flight across the South Atlantic Ocean in 1922 | Portugal | Arquivo Histórico da Marinha – Biblioteca Central da Marinha 38.6981°N -9.1898°W | 2011 | [163] |
| Arquivos dos Dembos / Ndembu Archives | Portugal, Angola | Arquivo Nacional de Angola, Luanda-8.8177°N 13.2311°W | 2011 | [164] |
| Journal of the first voyage of Vasco da Gama to India, 1497-1499 | Portugal | Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto41.1461°N -8.6018°W | 2013 | [165] |
| Official Records of Macao During the Qing Dynasty (1693-1886) | Portugal, China | Torre do Tombo National Archive, Alvalade, Lisbon38.7547°N -9.1565°W | 2017 | [166] |
| Register Books of visas granted by Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux, Aristides Sousa Mendes (1939-1940) | Portugal | Instituto Diplomático do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros38.7067°N -9.1711°W | 2017 | [167] |
| Archangel Gospel of 1092 | Russia | Russian State Library, Moscow55.7518°N 37.6089°W | 1997 | [168] |
| Khitrovo Gospel | Russia | Russian State Library, Moscow55.7518°N 37.6089°W | 1997 | [169] |
| Slavonic publications in Cyrillic script of the 15th century | Russia | Russian State Library, Moscow55.7518°N 37.6089°W | 1997 | [170] |
| Newspaper collections | Russia | Russian State Library, Moscow55.7518°N 37.6089°W | 1997 | [171] |
| Maps of the Russian empire and its collection of the 18th century | Russia | Russian State Library, Moscow55.7518°N 37.6089°W | 1997 | [172] |
| Russian posters of the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries | Russia | Russian State Library, Moscow55.7518°N 37.6089°W | 1997 | [173] |
| The Historical Collections (1889–1955) of St. Petersburg Phonogram Archives | Russia | The Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinsky Dom)59.9449°N 30.3013°W | 2001 | [174] |
| Ostromir Gospel (1056–1057) | Russia | Russian National Library59.9335°N 30.3357°W | 2011 | [175] |
| Tolstoy's Personal Library and Manuscripts, Photo and Film Collection | Russia | State Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana54.0695°N 37.5232°W | 2011 | [176] |
| The Laurentian Chronicle 1377 | Russia | Russian State Library, Moscow55.7518°N 37.6089°W | 2013 | [177] |
| The Sobornoye Ulozheniye of 1649 | Russia | Russian State Archives of Ancient Acts55.7329°N 37.5741°W | 2015 | [178] |
| Album of Indian and Persian Miniatures from the 16th through the 18th Century and Specimens of Persian Calligraphy | Russia | Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences59.9441°N 30.3219°W | 2017 | [179] |
| Nikola Tesla's Archive | Serbia | Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade44.8051°N 20.4707°W | 2003 | [180] |
| Miroslav Gospel – Manuscript from 1180 | Serbia | National Museum, Belgrade44.8166°N 20.4599°W | 2005 | [181] |
| Telegram of Austria-Hungary's declaration of war on Serbia on 28 July 1914 | Serbia | Archives of Serbia44.8069°N 20.4751°W | 2015 | [182] |
| Illuminated Codices from the Library of the Bratislava Chapter House | Slovakia | National Archives, Bratislava48.1599°N 17.0819°W | 1997 | [183] |
| Basagic Collection of Islamic Manuscripts | Slovakia | University Library, Bratislava48.1435°N 17.1064°W | 1997 | [184] |
| Mining maps and plans of the Main Chamber - Count Office in Banská Štiavnica | Slovakia | State Central Mining Archives48.459°N 18.8933°W | 2007 | [185] |
| Santa Fe Capitulations | Spain | Archive of the Crown of Aragon, Barcelona41.384°N 2.177°W | 2009 | [186] |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Spain, Portugal |
| 2007 | [187] |
| (1448) | Spain | Girona Municipal Archive 41.9871°N 2.8249°W | 2013 | [188] |
| The Decreta of León of 1188 - The oldest documentary manifestation of the European parliamentary system | Spain |
| 2013 | [189] |
| Materials Related to the Keicho-era Mission to Europe Japan and Spain | Spain, Japan | Sendai City Museum, Sendai38.256°N 140.8567°W | 2013 | [190] |
| Indigenous language vocabulary from the New World translated into Spanish | Spain | General Archive of the Indies, Seville37.3846°N -5.9933°W | 2015 | [191] |
| The Manuscripts of the Commentary to the Apocalypse (Beatus of Liébana) in the Iberian Tradition | Spain, Portugal |
| 2015 | [192] |
| Archives of Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Spanish Neurohistological School | Spain | Instituto Cajal-CSIC40.4482°N -3.6802°W | 2017 | [193] |
| The Codex Calixtinus of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral and other medieval copies of the Liber Sancti Jacobi: The Iberian origins of the Jacobian tradition in Europe | Spain, Portugal |
| 2017 | [194] |
| The General Archive of Simancas | Spain | Archivo General de Simancas41.592°N -4.8288°W | 2017 | [195] |
| Astrid Lindgren Archives | Sweden | The Royal Library, Stockholm59.3382°N 18.0721°W | 2005 | [196] |
| Emmanuel Swedenborg Collection | Sweden | The Royal Library, Stockholm59.3382°N 18.0721°W | 2005 | [197] |
| Ingmar Bergman Archives | Sweden | Swedish Film Institute 59.4847°N 17.895°W | 2007 | [198] |
| The Alfred Nobel Family Archives | Sweden |
| 2007 | [199] |
| Codex Argenteus – the ‘Silver Bible’ | Sweden | Uppsala University Library59.8551°N 17.6314°W | 2011 | [200] |
| Stockholm City Planning Committee Archives | Sweden | Stockholm City Archives59.3302°N 18.0494°W | 2011 | [201] |
| Dag Hammarskjöld Collection | Sweden | The Royal Library, Stockholm59.3382°N 18.0721°W | 2017 | [202] |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Geneva and Neuchâtel Collections | Switzerland |
| 2011 | [203] |
| The Montreux Jazz Festival: Claude Nobs' Legacy | Switzerland | Montreux Jazz Festival Foundation46.4335°N 6.9442°W | 2013 | [204] |
| Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (1916-1971) | Switzerland | Martin Bodmer Foundation46.2153°N 6.1806°W | 2015 | [205] |
| Documentary heritage of the former Abbey of Saint Gall in the Abbey Archives and the Abbey Library of Saint Gall | Switzerland |
| 2017 | [206] |
| Statements made by Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations 1982 to 2015 | Switzerland | (Docip- Indigenous Peoples' Centre for Documentation, Research and Information46.2255°N 6.1341°W | 2017 | [207] |
| The Hittite cuneiform tablets from Bogazköy | Turkey |
| 2001 | [208] |
| Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute Manuscripts | Turkey | Boğaziçi University, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul41.0606°N 29.0633°W | 2001 | [209] |
| The works of Ibn Sina in the | Turkey | Directorate of Turkish Manuscripts, Süleymaniye Manuscript Library41.0154°N 28.9625°W | 2003 | [210] |
| Evliya Çelebi's "Book of Travels" in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library and the Süleymaniye Manuscript Library | Turkey |
| 2013 | [211] |
| The Old Assyrian Merchant Archives of Kültepe | Turkey |
| 2015 | [212] |
| Compendium of the Turkic Dialects | Turkey | Millet Manuscript Library41.017°N 28.95°W | 2017 | [213] |
| The Piri Reis World Map (1513) | Turkey | Directorate of the Topkapı Palace Museum41.008°N 28.9788°W | 2017 | [214] |
| Collection of Jewish Musical Folklore (1912–1947) | Ukraine | Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Kyiv50.4043°N 30.5184°W | 2005 | [215] |
| Documentary Heritage Related to accident at Chernobyl | Ukraine | State Archival Service of Ukraine50.422°N 30.4823°W | 2017 | [216] |
| Documentary Heritage of Babyn Yar | Ukraine | State Archival Service of Ukraine50.422°N 30.4823°W | 2023 | [217] |
| The Battle of the Somme | United Kingdom | Imperial War Museum, London.51.4958°N -0.1086°W | 2005 | [218] |
| Hereford Mappa Mundi | United Kingdom | The Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust, Hereford52.0536°N -2.715°W | 2007 | [219] |
| Magna Carta, issued in 1215 | United Kingdom |
| 2009 | [220] |
| Historic Ethnographic Recordings (1898 – 1951) at the British Library | United Kingdom | British Library51.5294°N -0.1279°W | 2011 | [221] |
| Membership Application Certificates (Candidates Circulars) | United Kingdom | Institution of Civil Engineers51.5012°N -0.129°W | 2013 | [222] |
| Arthur Bernard Deacon (1903–27) collection MS 90-98 | United Kingdom, Vanuatu | Royal Anthropological Institute, London51.5238°N -0.1401°W | 2013 | [223] |
| Autograph First World War Diary of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, 1914–1919. | United Kingdom | National Library of Scotland55.9486°N -3.192°W | 2015 | [224] |
| The Churchill Papers | United Kingdom | Churchill College, Cambridge52.2128°N 0.0994°W | 2015 | [225] |
| The West India Committee collection | United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, Anguilla, Montserrat | Sidney Martin Library13.1332°N -59.6298°W | 2015 | [226] |
| The Gertrude Bell Archive | United Kingdom | Robinson Library, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne54.9811°N -1.6111°W | 2017 | [227] |
| The Orwell Papers | United Kingdom | University College London51.5246°N -0.1338°W | 2017 | [228] |
| United Kingdom, Barbados | Gloucestershire Archives51.8685°N -2.2412°W | 2017 | [229] | |
| The ‘Shakespeare Documents’, a documentary trail of the life of William Shakespeare | United Kingdom, United States |
| 2017 | [230] |
| The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming 1939), produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | United States | George Eastman House, Rochester43.1529°N -77.5803°W | 2007 | [231] |
| John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950–2000 | United States | Smithsonian Institution, Suitland38.886°N -77.0214°W | 2009 | [232] |
| Landsat Program records: Multispectral Scanner (MSS) sensors | United States | U.S. Geological Survey38.9472°N -77.3675°W | 2011 | [233] |
| Silver Men: West Indian Labourers at the Panama Canal | United States, United Kingdom, Barbados, Jamaica, Panama, Saint Lucia |
| 2011 | [234] |
| Permanent Collection of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project | United States | Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project38.8968°N -77.0444°W | 2013 | [235] |
| Moses and Frances Asch Collection. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution | United States | Smithsonian Institution, Suitland38.886°N -77.0214°W | 2015 | [236] |
| The Villa Ocampo Documentation Center | United States, Argentina |
| 2017 | [237] |
A. Names and spellings provided are based on the official list released by the Memory of the World Programme.