Foreword                                           9  (2)
    The emotional power of documents               11 (1)
    World map and Memory of the World Register     12 (12)
    The Hittite cuneiform tablets from Bogazkoy    24 (2)
    Rigveda                                        26 (2)
    Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer                       28 (2)
    Commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb, Mount    30 (2)
    Lebanon
    The Phoenician alphabet                        32 (3)
    Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor's Inner      35 (1)
    Canon)
    Ancient Naxi Dongba literature manuscripts     36 (2)
    Mashtots Matenadaran ancient manuscripts       38 (2)
    collection
    Saiva manuscripts in Pondicherry               40 (2)
    Codex Argenteus - the `Silver Bible'           42 (2)
    Codex Purpureus Beratinus                      44 (2)
    Vienna Dioscurides                             46 (2)
    Earliest Islamic (Kufic) inscription           48 (2)
    Holy Koran Mushaf of Othman                    50 (2)
    Lucca's historical diocesan archives           52 (2)
    The Book of Kells                              54 (5)
    Laghukalacakratantrarajatika (Vimalaprabha)    59 (1)
    The collection of the Al-Biruni Institute      60 (1)
    of Oriental Studies
    Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Buid,         61 (1)
    Tagbanua and Pala'wan)
    Georgian Byzantine manuscripts                 62 (3)
    Deeds of sultans and princes                   65 (1)
    Illuminated manuscripts from the Ottonian      66 (2)
    period produced in the monastery of
    Reichenau (Lake Constance)
    Enina Apostolos, Old Bulgarian Cyrillic        68 (2)
    manuscript (fragment) of the 11th century
    Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake            70 (1)
    Research Institute manuscripts
    Codex Suprasliensis                            71 (1)
    The works of Ibn Sina in the Suleymaniye       72 (4)
    Manuscript Library
    Al-Tafhim li Awa'il Sana'at al-Tanjim          76 (2)
    Ostromir Gospel (1056-1057)                    78 (2)
    Bayeux Tapestry                                80 (3)
    Archangel Gospel of 1092                       83 (1)
    Illuminated codices from the library of the    84 (2)
    Bratislava Chapter House
    Medieval manuscripts on medicine and           86 (1)
    pharmacy
    The Arnamagnaean manuscript collection         87 (3)
    Miroslav Gospel - manuscript from 1180         90 (2)
    Tabula Peutingeriana                           92 (2)
    Song of the Nibelungs, a heroic poem from      94 (2)
    medieval Europe
    Magna Carta, issued in 1215                    96 (2)
    Printing woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana   98 (2)
    MS. GKS 4 2°, vol. I-III, Biblia           100(2)
    Latina. Commonly called `The Hamburg Bible'
    Hereford Mappa Mundi                           102(2)
    The King Ram Khamhaeng inscription             104(4)
    Library Ets Haim-Livraria Montezinos           108(2)
    The manuscript of Ubayd Zakoni's Kulliyat      110(2)
    and Hafez Sherozi's Gazalliyt
    Collection of medieval manuscripts of the      112(2)
    Czech Reformation
    The Deed For Endowment: Rab' i-Rashidi (Rab    114(2)
    i-Rashidi Endowment)
    Batu Bersurat, Terengganu (Inscribed Stone     116(1)
    of Terengganu)
    La Galigo                                      117(1)
    Persian illustrated and illuminated            118(2)
    manuscripts
    Collection of Nezami's Panj Ganj               120(2)
    Baegun hwasang chorok buljo jikji simche
    yojeol(vol. II)                                122(1)
    Khitrovo Gospel                                123(1)
    The Annals of the Joseon dynasty               124(1)
    Kitab al-ibar, wa diwan al-mobtadae wa         125(1)
    al-khabar
    Slavonic publications in Cyrillic script of    126(1)
    the 15th century
    Treasures from National Archives and           127(1)
    Library organizations
    Corpo Cronologico (collection of               128(2)
    manuscripts on the Portuguese discoveries)
    Radziwiills' Archives and Niasvizh             130(4)
    (Nieswiez) Library collection
    Collection of Gothic architectural drawings    134(3)
    `Bayasanghori Shahnameh'(Prince                137(1)
    Bayasanghor's `Book of the Kings')
    Stone stele records of royal examinations      138(3)
    of the Le and Mac dynasties (1442-1779)
    The Hunminjeongum manuscript                   141(1)
    The Malatesta Novello Library                  142(4)
    The 42-line Gutenberg Bible, printed on        146(3)
    vellum
    Bibliotheca Corviniana                         149(1)
    Library of the Cistercian Abbey of             150(3)
    Clairvaux at the time of Pierre de Virey
    (1472)
    Mainz Psalter at the Austrian National         153(1)
    Library
    Santa Fe Capitulations                         154(2)
    Treaty of Tordesillas                          156(2)
    Sound Toll Registers                           158(1)
    Letter from Pero Vaz de Caminha                159(1)
    Archives Insolvente Boedelskamer Antwerpen     160(2)
    Universalis cosmographia secundum              162(2)
    Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii
    aliorumque Lustrationes
    Tabula Hungariae                               164(1)
    Beatus Rhenanus Library                        165(3)
    Sixteenth to eighteenth century pictographs    168(1)
    from `Maps, drawings and illustrations'
    Archives of Mexico
    Negros y Esclavos archives                     169(3)
    Collection of Mexican codices                  172(2)
    Coleccion de lenguas indigenas                 174(2)
    Basagic collection of Islamic manuscripts      176(3)
    Collection of the Center of Documentation      179(1)
    and Investigation of the Ashkenazi
    community in Mexico
    Nicolaus Copernicus' masterpiece `De           180(3)
    revolutionibus libri sex'
    Codices from the Oaxaca Valley                 183(1)
    Chatelet de Paris banner register from the     184(2)
    reign of Francis I (National Archives Y9,
    France)
    Collection of the manuscripts of Khoja         186(2)
    Ahmed Yasawi
    American colonial music: a sample of its       188(2)
    documentary richness
    Business archives of the Officina              190(1)
    Plantiniana
    Documentary fonds of Royal Audiencia Court     191(3)
    of La Plata (RALP)
    The Confederation of Warsaw of 28th of         194(2)
    January 1573
    Tarikh-e-Khandan-e-Timuriyah                   196(2)
    Administrative documents of Astan-e Quds       198(2)
    Razavi in the Safavid era
    Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia         200(2)
    Medica)
    Tolstoy's personal library and manuscripts,    202(4)
    photo and film collection
    Jesuits of America                             206(2)
    Codex Techaloyan de Cuajimalpaz                208(1)
    Documentary heritage of enslaved peoples of    209(3)
    the Caribbean
    El Primer Nueva Coronica y Buen Gobierno       212(1)
    Uigwe: The royal protocols of the court of     213(1)
    Joseon dynasty
    Archives of the Dutch East India Company       214(4)
    Donguibogam: `Principles and Practice of       218(1)
    Eastern Medicine'
    Sejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals)              219(1)
    Dutch West India Company (Westindische         220(2)
    Compagnie) archives
    The IAS Tamil medical manuscript collection    222(2)
    Quebec Seminary collection, 1623-1800          224(3)
    (17th-19th centuries)
    Seungjeongwon Ilgi, the diaries of the         227(1)
    royal secretariat
    Book for the Baptism of Slaves (1636-1670)     228(2)
    Mining maps and plans of the Main              230(2)
    Chamber-Count Office in Banska Stiavnica
    Collection of 526 prints of university         232(1)
    theses from 1637 to 1754
    Biblioteca Palafoxiana                         233(3)
    Hikayat Hahg Tuah                              236(3)
    Records of the Qing's Grand Secretariat        239(1)
    Lu. `Altan Tobchi': Golden History written     240(2)
    in 1651
    The Atlas Blaeu Van der Hem                    242(2)
    Golden Lists of the Qing dynasty imperial      244(2)
    examination
    Letters from and to Gottfried Wilhelm          246(2)
    Leibniz
    Archives of the Danish overseas trading        248(2)
    companies
    Hudson's Bay Company archival records          250(3)
    Arquivos dos Dembos / Ndembu archives          253(1)
    Woodblocks of the Nguyen dynasty               254(2)
    Records of the French occupation of            256(2)
    Mauritius
    Privateering and the international             258(2)
    relations of the Regency of Tunis in the
    18th and 19th centuries
    Collection of 18th-century maps of the         260(4)
    Russian empire
    Newspaper collections, Russian Federation      264(2)
    Collection of Arabic manuscripts and books     266(3)
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Geneva and Neuchatel    269(1)
    collections
    Stockholm City Planning Committee archives     270(2)
    Emanuel Swedenborg collection                  272(2)
    Archives of the Middelburgsche Commercie       274(2)
    Compagnie
    Linne collection                               276(3)
    Mongolian Tanjur                               279(1)
    Qing dynasty Yangshi Lei archives              280(5)
    The literary estate of Goethe in the Goethe    285(1)
    and Schiller Archives
    Ilseongnok: Records of Daily Reflections       286(2)
    The Endeavour journal of James Cook            288(2)
    National Education Commission archives         290(2)
    Documentary heritage of the Viceroyalty of     292(2)
    the Rio de la Plata
    Colombeia: Generalissimo Francisco de          294(4)
    Miranda's archives
    The Convict Records of Australia               298(4)
    Original Declaration of the Rights of Man      302(4)
    and of the Citizen (1789-1791)
    Introduction of the decimal metric system,     306(2)
    1790-1837
    The Leprosy Archives of Bergen                 308(3)
    The Vienna City Library Schubert collection    311(3)
    The masterpieces of Fryderyk Chopin            314(3)
    Kinder- und Hausmarchen (Children's and        317(3)
    Household Tales)
    General Archive of the Nation: Writings of     320(3)
    The Liberator Simon Bolivar
    The Søren Kierkegaard archives          323(1)
    Final document of the Congress of Vienna       324(2)
    Registry of Slaves of the British Caribbean    326(2)
    1817-1834
    Csoma archive of the Library of the            328(1)
    Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    The Bleek collection                           329(3)
    Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9, D        332(2)
    minor, op. 125
    Royal archives (1824-1897)                     334(2)
    Catecismo corticu pa uso di catolicanan di     336(4)
    Curacao (first catechism written in
    Papiamentu language)
    Manuscripts and correspondence of Hans         340(4)
    Christian Andersen
    Records of the Indian indentured labourers     344(1)
    Farquharson's Journal                          345(1)
    Epigraphic archives of Wat Pho                 346(2)
    Janos Bolyai: Appendix, Scientiam Spatii       348(2)
    absolute veram exhibens
    Brahms collection                              350(2)
    Memory of the Suez Canal                       352(4)
    The Treaty of Waitangi                         356(2)
    The Emperor's collection                       358(2)
    Alfred Nobel family archives                   360(2)
    Colonial archives, Benin                       362(2)
    The A.E. Nordenskiold Collection               364(2)
    `Jose Marti Perez' fonds                       366(3)
    Archival documents of King Chulalongkorn's     369(1)
    transformation of Siam (1868-1910)
    Arnold Schonberg estate                        370(2)
    Jinnah papers (Quaid-i-Azam)                   372(2)
    Dainu Skapis - Cabinet of folksongs            374(2)
    Silver men: West Indian labourers at the       376(3)
    Panama Canal
    Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House                   379(1)
    Nikola Tesla's Archive                         380(2)
    Benz patent of 1886                            382(3)
    Correspondence of the late Sultan of Kedah     385(1)
    (1882-1943)
    The Historical Collections (1889-1955) of      386(2)
    St Petersburg Phonogram Archives
    German records of the National Archives        388(3)
    Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party to    391(3)
    the people of Queensland
    The 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition             394(3)
    Early cylinder recordings of the world's       397(1)
    musical traditions (1893-1952)
    Lumiere films                                  398(4)
    Fonds of the Afrique occidentale francaise     402(2)
    (AOF)
    Historic ethnographic recordings (1898-1951)
    at the British Library                         404(2)
    The historical collections (1899-1950) of      406(2)
    the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv
    Letter journals of Hendrik Witbooi             408(4)
    Russian posters of the end of the 19th and     412(3)
    early 20th centuries
    Collection of Latin American photographs of    415(1)
    the 19th century
    Presidential papers of Manuel L. Quezon        416(2)
    Sakubei Yamamoto collection                    418(4)
    The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)             422(3)
    Desmet collection                              425(3)
    Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition         428(2)
    (1910-1912)
    Collection of Jewish musical folklore          430(2)
    (1912-1947)
    Original records of Carlos Gardel - Horacio    432(2)
    Loriente collection (1913-1935)
    Archives of the International Prisoners of     434(4)
    War Agency, 1914-1923
    The Battle of the Somme                        438(4)
    Collection of Russian, Ukrainian and           442(1)
    Belarusian emigre periodicals 1918-1945
    League of Nations archives 1919-1946           443(3)
    Constantine collection                         446(3)
    First flight across the South Atlantic         449(3)
    Ocean in 1922
    Kalman Tihanyi's 1926 patent application       452(2)
    `Radioskop'
    Metropolis - Sicherungsstuck Nr. 1:            454(2)
    Negative of the restored and reconstructed
    version (2001)
    C.L.R. James collection                        456(1)
    Documentary heritage on the resistance and     457(1)
    struggle for human rights in the Dominican
    Republic, 1930-1961
    Sir William Arthur Lewis papers                458(3)
    Thor Heyerdahl archives                        461(3)
    Ingmar Bergman archives                        464(2)
    The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939),       466(4)
    produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Warsaw Ghetto archives (Emanuel Ringelblum     470(4)
    archives)
    Astrid Lindgren archives                       474(2)
    The Appeal of 18 June 1940                     476(2)
    Diaries of Anne Frank                          478(4)
    Archive of Warsaw Reconstruction Office        482(4)
    Archives of the Literary Institute in Paris    486(2)
    (1946-2000)
    Federal Archives fonds                         488(2)
    Audiovisual documents of the international     490(2)
    antinuclear movement `Nevada-Semipalatinsk'
    UNRWA photo and film archives of               492(2)
    Palestinian refugees
    Los Olvidados                                  494(2)
    Nita Barrow collection                         496(2)
    The Archives of Terror                         498(2)
    John Marshall Ju/'hoan bushman film and        500(2)
    video collection, 1950-2000
    Traditional music sound archives               502(2)
    Neighbours, animated, directed and produced    504(1)
    by Norman McLaren in 1952
    Jose Maceda collection                         505(3)
    Derek Walcott collection                       508(2)
    The Family of Man                              510(2)
    Christopher Okigbo collection                  512(2)
    Eric Williams collection                       514(2)
    The Mabo case manuscripts                      516(3)
    Original negative of the Noticiero ICAIC       519(1)
    Latinoamericano
    Construction and fall of the Berlin Wall       520(5)
    and the Two-Plus-Four-Treaty of 1990
    Criminal Court Case No. 253/1963 (The State    525(2)
    versus N. Mandela and Others)
    Network of information and counter             527(1)
    information on the military regime in
    Brazil (1964-1985)
    First Byurakan Survey (FBS or Markarian        528(2)
    survey)
    Aral Sea archival fonds                        530(2)
    Landsat Program records: Multispectral         532(6)
    Scanner (MSS) sensors
    Human Rights Archive of Chile                  538(2)
    Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum archives            540(3)
    Human rights documentary heritage, 1976-1983   543(1)
    Liberation Struggle Living Archive             544(2)
    Collection
    Human rights documentary heritage, 1980        546(3)
    Twenty-One demands, Gdansk, August 1980        549(3)
    National Literacy Crusade                      552(2)
    Radio broadcast of the Philippine People       554(2)
    Power Revolution
    The Baltic Way - Human chain linking three     556(6)
    states in their drive for freedom
Country by country index                           562(8)
Index of inscriptions                              570(13)
Contact information                                583(23)
Acknowledgements and photo credits                 606