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The first inscriptions on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register were made in 1997.[1][2] By creating a compendium of the world’s documentary heritage, including manuscripts, oral traditions, audio-visual materials, library and archive holdings,[3] the program aims to promote the exchange of information among experts and raise resources for the preservation, digitization, and dissemination of documentary materials.[4] As of December 2018, 429 main documentary heritages had been inscribed in the Register, with 116 of these from Asia and the Pacific.[5]
The Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific, known as MOWCAP, is a regional committee of UNESCO's global programme.[6]
Items listed below are part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Registry, but not a regional list created by MOWCAP, nor made up of national lists, although such lists have been envisioned.[7]
Documentary heritage[A] | Country/Territory | Custodian(s), Location(s) | Year inscribed |
Reference |
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The Endeavour Journal of James Cook | Australia | National Library of Australia, Canberra | 2001 | [14] |
The Mabo Case Manuscripts | Australia | National Library of Australia, Canberra | 2001 | [15] |
The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) | Australia | National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra | 2007 | [8] |
The Convict Records of Australia | Australia |
|
2007 | [16] |
Mountford-Sheard Collection | Australia | State Library of South Australia, Adelaide | 2008 | [17][18] |
Margaret Lawrie Collection of Torres Strait Islands, 1964-1998 | Australia | State Library of Queensland, Brisbane | 2008 | [19][20] |
Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party, 1892 | Australia | State Library of Queensland, Brisbane | 2008 | [21][22][23] |
The Convict Records of Queensland 1825-1842 | Australia | State Library of Queensland, Brisbane | 2009 | [24] |
James Tyson Papers, 1834-1965 | Australia | State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
Queensland State Archives, Brisbane National Library of Australia, Canberra Deniliquin and District Historical Society |
2017 | [25][26][27] |
Anzac Day Commemoration Committee, 1916-1922 | Australia | State Library of Queensland, Brisbane | 2019 | [28][29][30][31] |
The Johnstone Gallery Archive, 1948-1992 | Australia | State Library of Queensland, Brisbane | 2021 | [32][33][34][35] |
Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM Children's Art Archive 1986-2016; 2020 | Australia | State Library of Queensland, Brisbane | 2023 | [36] |
Giant Glass Plate Negatives of Sydney Harbour | Australia | State Library of New South Wales, Sydney | 2021 | [37] |
7 March Speech of Bangabandhu | Bangladesh | Liberation War Museum, Dhaka | 2017 | [38][39] |
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archives | Cambodia | Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh | 2009 | [9] |
Traditional Music Sound Archives | China | Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing | 1997 | [40] |
Records of the Qing's Grand Secretariat - 'Infiltration of Western Culture in China' | China | Palace Museum, Beijing | 1999 | [41] |
Ancient Naxi Dongba Literature Manuscripts | China | Lijiang Prefecture Dongba Research Institute, Dayan | 2003 | [42] |
Golden Lists of the Qing Dynasty Imperial Examination | China | State Archives, Beijing | 2005 | [43] |
Qing Dynasty Yangshi Lei Archives | China |
|
2007 | [44] |
Ben Cao Gang Mu: Compendium of Materia Medica | China | Library of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences | 2011 | [45] |
Huang Di Nei Jing: Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic | China | National Library of China | 2011 | [46] |
Official Records of Tibet from the Yuan Dynasty China, 1304-1367 | China | Tibet Autonomous Region Archives, Lhasa | 2013 | [47] |
Qiaopi and Yinxin Correspondence and Remittance Documents from Overseas Chinese | China |
|
2013 | [48] |
Documents of Nanjing Massacre | China |
|
2015 | [49][7] |
The Archives of Suzhou Silk from Modern and Contemporary Times | China | Suzhou Industrial and Commercial Archives Administration | 2017 | [50] |
Chinese Oracle-Bone Inscriptions | China |
|
2017 | [51] |
Official Records of Macao During the Qing Dynasty (1693-1886) | China, Portugal |
Torre do Tombo National Archive, Alvalade, Lisbon | 2017 | [52] |
Records of the Indian Indentured Labourers | Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago |
2011 | [53] | |
The I.A.S. Tamil Medical Manuscript Collection | India | Institute of Asian Studies, Chennai | 1997 | [54][55] |
Archives of the Dutch East India Company | India, Indonesia, Netherlands, South Africa, Sri Lanka |
|
2003 | [56] |
Shaiva Manuscript in Pondicherry | India | French Institute of Pondicherry, Pondicherry | 2005 | [57][58] |
Rigveda | India | Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune | 2007 | [10][59] |
Tarikh-e-Khandan-e-Timuriyah | India | Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library, Patna 25°37′18″N 85°08′08″E | 2011 | [60][61] |
Laghukālachakratantrarājatīka Vimalaprabhā | India | The Asiatic Society, Kolkata | 2011 | [62] |
Shāntinātha Charitra | India | Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum, Ahmedabad | 2013 | [63] |
Gilgit Manuscript | India | National Archives of India, New Delhi | 2017 | [64] |
Maitreyayvarakarana | India | Maitreyayvarakarana Asiatic Society, Kolkata | 2017 | [65] |
Ramcharitmanas | India | 2024 | ||
Panchatantra | India | 2024 | ||
Sahṛdayaloka-Locana | India | 2024 | ||
Sultana's Dream | India | 2024 | ||
La Galigo | Indonesia, Netherlands |
2011 | [66] | |
Nagarakretagama: Description of the Country (1365 AD) | Indonesia | National Library of Indonesia, Jakarta | 2013 | [67] |
Babad Diponegoro | Indonesia, Netherlands |
|
2013 | [68] |
Asian-African Conference Archives | Indonesia | National Archives of Indonesia, South Jakarta | 2015 | [69] |
Borobudur Conservation Archives | Indonesia | National Archives of Indonesia | 2017 | [70] |
The Indian Ocean Tsunami Archives | Indonesia, Sri Lanka |
|
2017 | [71] |
Panji Tales Manuscripts | Indonesia, Cambodia, Netherlands, Malaysia, United Kingdom |
|
2017 | [72] |
"Bayasanghori Shâhnâmeh" (Prince Bayasanghor's Book of the Kings) | Iran | Golestan Palace, Tehran | 2007 | [11] |
The Deed For Endowment: Rab’ I-Rashidi (Rab I-Rashidi Endowment) 13th Century manuscript | Iran | Tabriz Central Library, Tabriz | 2007 | [73][74] |
Administrative Documents of Astan-e Quds Razavi in the Safavid Era | Iran | Astan-e Quds Razavi Library, Mashhad | 2009 | [75] |
Al-Tafhim li Awa'il Sana'at al-Tanjim: The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology | Iran | Library, Museum and Documentation Centre of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Tehran | 2011 | [76] |
Collection of Nezami’s Panj Ganj | Iran |
|
2011 | [77] |
A Collection of selected maps of Iran in the Qajar Era (1193 - 1344 Lunar Calendar / 1779-1926 Gregorian Calendar) | Iran | Library of Political and International Studies of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs | 2013 | [78] |
Dhakhīra-yi Khārazmshāhī | Iran | Library of the Sepahsalar Mosque, Tehran | 2013 | [79] |
Al-Masaalik Wa Al-Mamaalik: The Book of Itineraries and Kingdoms | Germany, Iran |
|
2015 | [80] |
Kulliyyāt-i Saʽdi: Kulliyat of Saadi | Iran | The National Library and Archives of Iran, Tehran | 2015 | [81] |
Jāme’ al-Tavarikh: Compendium of Chronicles | Iran | Golestan Palace, Tehran | 2017 | [82] |
Sakubei Yamamoto Collection | Japan |
|
2011 | [83] |
Materials Related to the Keicho-era Mission to Europe Japan and Spain | Japan, Spain |
Sendai City Museum, Sendai | 2013 | [84] |
Midokanpakuki: the original handwritten diary of Fujiwara no Michinaga | Japan | Yōmei Bunko, Kyoto | 2013 | [85] |
Archives of Tōji temple contained in one-hundred boxes | Japan | Kyoto Prefectural Library, Kyoto | 2015 | [86] |
Return to Maizuru Port—Documents Related to the Internment and Repatriation Experiences of Japanese (1945-1956) | Japan | Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum, Kyoto | 2015 | [87] |
Three Cherished Stelae of Ancient Kozuke | Japan | Takasaki, Gunma | 2017 | [88] |
Collection of manuscripts of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi | Kazakhstan | National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty | 2003 | [89] |
Audiovisual documents of the International antinuclear movement "Nevada-Semipalatinsk" | Kazakhstan | State Archive & State Archive of Film, Almaty | 2005 | [90] |
Aral Sea Archival Fonds | Kazakhstan | State Archive & State Archive of Film, Almaty | 2011 | [91] |
Correspondence of the late Sultan of Kedah (1882–1943) | Malaysia | National Archives of Malaysia, Alor Setar | 2001 | [92] |
Hikayat Hang Tuah: The story of Hang Tuah | Malaysia | National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur | 2001 | [93] |
Sejarah Melayu (the Malay Annals) | Malaysia | Institute of Language and Literature, Kuala Lumpur | 2001 | [94] |
Batu Bersurat, Terengganu (Inscribed Stone of Terengganu) | Malaysia | Terengganu State Museum, Kuala Terengganu | 2009 | [95] |
Lu."Altan Tobchi" : Golden History written in 1651 | Mongolia | National Library of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar | 2011 | [96] |
Mongolian Tanjur & Stone Stele Monument for Mongolian Tanjur | Mongolia | National Library of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar | 2011 & 2017 | [97] |
Kanjur written with 9 precious stones | Mongolia | National Library of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar | 2013 | [98] |
Kuthodaw Inscription Shrines | Myanmar | Kuthodaw Pagoda, Mandalay | 2013 | [99] |
Myazedi Quadrilingual Stone Inscription | Myanmar | Department of Archaeology and National Museum, Naypyidaw | 2015 | [100] |
The Golden Letter of the Burmese King Alaungphaya to King George II of Great Britain | Myanmar, Germany, United Kingdom |
|
2015 | [101] |
King Bayinnaung Bell Inscription | Myanmar | Shwezigon Pagoda, Bagan | 2017 | [102] |
Nishvāsattatvasamhitā Manuscript | Nepal | National Archives of Nepal, Kathmandu | 2013 | [103] |
Sushrutasamhitā (Sahottārtantra) Manuscript | Nepal | Kaiser Library, Kathmandu | 2013 | [104] |
Treaty of Waitangi | New Zealand | National Archives, Wellington | 1997 | [105] |
The 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition | New Zealand | National Archives, Wellington | 1997 | [106] |
Sir Edmund Hillary Archive | New Zealand | Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland | 2015 | [107] |
Comprehensive Illustrated Manual of Martial arts | North Korea | Grand People's Study House, Pyongyang; Various locations in South Korea | 2017 | [108] |
Jinnah Papers (Quaid-i-Azam) | Pakistan | National Archives of Pakistan, Islamabad | 1999 | [109] |
Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala'wan) | Philippines | National Museum, Manila | 1999 | [110] |
Radio Broadcast of the Philippine People Power Revolution | Philippines |
|
2003 | [111] |
José Maceda Collection | Philippines | U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology, Quezon City | 2007 | [112] |
Presidential Papers of Manuel L. Quezon | Philippines | U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology, Quezon City | 2011 | [112] |
Hunminjeongum Manuscript: Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People | South Korea | Gansong Art Museum, Seoul | 1997 | [113] |
The Annals of the Choson Dynasty | South Korea |
|
1997 | [114] |
Seungjeongwon ilgi, the Diaries of the Royal Secretariat | South Korea | Kyujanggak Library and Seoul National University, Seoul | 2001 | [115] |
Baegun hwasang chorok buljo jikji simche yojeol (vol. II), the second volume of "Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests’ Zen Teachings" | South Korea | National Library of France, Paris | 2001 | [116] |
Printing woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana and miscellaneous Buddhist scriptures | South Korea | Haeinsa Monastery, Gyeongsangnam-do | 2007 | [117] |
Uigwe: The Royal Protocols of the Joseon Dynasty | South Korea | Seoul National University, Seoul | 2007 | [118] |
Dongui Bogam: Principles and Practice of Eastern Medicine | South Korea | National Library of Korea, Seoul | 2009 | [119] |
Human Rights Documentary Heritage 1980 Archives for the May 18th Democratic Uprising against Military Regime, in Gwangju, Republic of Korea | South Korea |
|
2011 | [120] |
Ilseongnok: Records of Daily Reflections | South Korea | Seoul National University, Seoul | 2011 | [121] |
Nanjung ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin | South Korea | Hyeonchungsa Shrine, Asan | 2013 | [122] |
Archives of Saemaul Undong (New Community Movement) | South Korea |
|
2013 | [123] |
Confucian Printing Woodblocks | South Korea | The Advanced Center for Korean Studies, Andong | 2015 | [124] |
The Archives of the KBS Special Live Broadcast "Finding Dispersed Families" | South Korea |
|
2015 | [125] |
Royal Seal and Investiture Book Collection of the Joseon Dynasty | South Korea | National Palace Museum of Korea, Seoul | 2017 | [126] |
Archives of the National Debt Redemption Movement | South Korea | National Debt Redemption Movement Memorial Park | 2017 | [127] |
Documents on Joseon Tongsinsa/Chosen Tsushinshi: The History of Peace Building and Cultural Exchanges between Korea and Japan from the 17th to 19th Century | South Korea, Japan |
|
2017 | [128] |
Mahavamsa (6th century BCE to 1815 CE) | Sri Lanka | Palm Leaf Manuscripts Collection, University of Peradeniya | 2023 | [129] |
The manuscript of Ubayd Zakoni's Kulliyat and Hafez Sherozi's Gazalliyt (14th century) | Tajikistan | Institute of the Written Heritage of the Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe | 2003 | [130] |
The King Ram Khamhaeng Inscription | Thailand | Bangkok National Museum, Bangkok | 2003 | [131] |
Archival Documents of King Chulalongkorn's Transformation of Siam (1868–1910) | Thailand | National Library of Thailand, Bangkok; National Archives of Thailand, Bangkok | 2009 | [132] |
Epigraphic Archives of Wat Pho | Thailand | Wat Pho, Bangkok | 2011 | [133] |
"The Minute Books of the Council of the Siam Society", 100 years of recording international cooperation in research and the dissemination of knowledge in the arts and sciences | Thailand | National Archives of Thailand, Bangkok | 2013 | [134] |
The Royal Photographic Glass Plate Negatives and Original Prints Collection | Thailand | National Archives of Thailand, Bangkok | 2017 | [135] |
On the Birth of a Nation: Turning points (Max Stahl collection of audiovisual documents) | East Timor | Archives & Museum of East Timorese Resistance | 2013 | [136] |
Holy Koran Mushaf of Othman | Uzbekistan | The Muslim Board of Uzbekistan, Tashkent | 1997 | [13] |
The Collection of the Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies | Uzbekistan | Academy of Sciences, Tashkent | 1997 | [137] |
Archives of the Chancellery of Khiva Khans | Uzbekistan | Central State Archive of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent | 2017 | [138] |
Arthur Bernard Deacon (1903–27) collection MS 90-98 | Vanuatu, United Kingdom |
Royal Anthropological Institute, London | 2013 | [139] |
Woodblocks of the Nguyễn Dynasty | Vietnam | State Records and Archives Department of Vietnam, Hanoi | 2009 | [140] |
Stone stele records of imperial examinations of the Lê and Mạc dynasties | Vietnam | Temple of Literature | 2010 | [141][142] |
Imperial Archives of Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) | Vietnam | National Archives Centre No.1, Hanoi | 2017 | [143] |
Culion Leprosy Archives | Philippines | Culion Museum and Archives, Culion, Palawan | 2018 |
[144] |
^ A. Names and spellings provided are based on the official list released by the Memory of the World Programme.
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