Memory_of_the_World_Register_–_Europe_and_North_America

Memory of the World Register – Europe and North America

Memory of the World Register – Europe and North America

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The International Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World-Programme includes inscriptions from Europe and North America.[7] As of December 2018, the region has 274 (or 52%) inscriptions of the 432 total inscriptions included in the Register.[8]

Albania's Codex Beratinus is a Greek uncial codex of the New Testament that has been dated paleographically to the 6th century.
The Vienna Dioscurides of Austria can be considered as the most important pharmaceutical source of the Ancient World and was used throughout the Middle Age, Renaissance and in later centuries as a dictionary for medical practitioners.[1]
The Bayeux Tapestry from France is a 50 cm by 70 m (20 in by 230 ft) long embroidered cloth—not an actual tapestry—which explains the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England as well as the events of the invasion itself.
Germany's 42-line Gutenberg Bible is the first book printed in Europe with movable types.[2]
The Family of Man, on permanent display in Luxembourg, is regarded by some as the "greatest photographic enterprise ever undertaken".[3]
Malatesta Novello Library.
Gerhard Armauer Hansen discovered the causative agent of leprosy and worked at St. George's Hospital, now the hub of The Leprosy Archives of Bergen.
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is the seminal work on heliocentric theory and the masterpiece of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543).
This Khitrovo Gospel gives a salient idea of the stage of the development of ancient Russian literature, of its book-writing schools and workshops and of the dissemination of the church Slavonic language.[4]
Serbia's Miroslav Gospel , a manuscript dating from around 1180 with miniatures of outstanding beauty, reflects the fusion of elements of the West (Italy) and the East (Byzantium).[5]
The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the "newly discovered" lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal during the dawn of the Age of Discovery.
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 cinema classic. Here Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) arrives in Munchkinland.[6]
The Cabinet of Folksongs, a collection of almost 218,000 Latvian folksong texts

The first inscriptions on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register were made in 1997.[9] By creating a compendium of the world's documentary heritage – such as manuscripts, oral traditions, audio-visual materials, and library and archive holdings[10] – 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.[11] 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.

Number of inscriptions by country

As of December 2018, the region has 274 (or 52%) inscriptions of the 432 total inscriptions included in the Register.[8]

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Inscriptions by country/territory

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See also

Notes

^ A. Names and spellings provided are based on the official list released by the Memory of the World Programme.


References

  1. "Vienna Dioscurides". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  2. "42-line Gutenberg Bible, printed on vellum, and its contemporary documentary background". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 25 August 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  3. "Family of Man". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  4. "Khitrovo Gospel". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 10 April 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  5. "Miroslav Gospel – Manuscript from 1180". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  6. "The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming 1939), produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  7. "Memory of the World Register". UNESCO. 29 March 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  8. "Statistics of Memory of the World" (PDF). UNESCO. December 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  9. "Third Meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Programme". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. 17 April 1999. Archived from the original on 3 May 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
  10. "UNESCO MEMORY OF THE WORLD PROGRAMME: The Asia-Pacific Strategy". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 28 February 2005. Retrieved 21 October 2004.
  11. "The Vienna City Library Schubert Collection". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  12. "Mainz Psalter at the Austrian National Library". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  13. "Collection of medieval manuscripts of the Czech Reformation". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  14. "The moving picture shows of Émile Reynaud". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.
  15. "Antônio Carlos Gomes". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.
  16. "Warsaw Ghetto Archives (Emanuel Ringelblum Archives)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  17. "The Masterpieces of Fryderyk Chopin". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  18. "The Confederation of Warsaw of 28th of January 1573: Religious tolerance guaranteed". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  19. "Twenty-One Demands, Gdañsk, August 1980: The birth of the SOLIDARITY trades union – a massive social movement". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  20. "Archives of the Literary Institute in Paris (1946-2000)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 15 December 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  21. "Maps of the Russian empire and its collection of the 18th century". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2009.

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