Memory of the World Register – Asia and the Pacific
The first inscriptions on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register were made in 1997.[1] By creating a compendium of the world’s documentary heritage—manuscripts, oral traditions, audio-visual materials, library and archive holdings[2]—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.[3] As of 2015, 238 documentary heritages have been included in the Register, among them 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.
List by country/territory
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Country/Territory | Documentary heritage[A] | Year inscribed |
Custodian(s), Location(s) | Reference |
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Australia | The Endeavour Journal of James Cook | 2001 | National Library of Australia, Canberra | [10] |
Australia | The Mabo Case Manuscripts | 2001 | National Library of Australia, Canberra | [11] |
Australia | The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) | 2007 | National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra | [4] |
Australia | The Convict Records of Australia | 2007 | Various locations | [12] |
Australia | Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party to the people of Queensland | 2009 | State Library of Queensland, Brisbane | [13] |
Australia | Goldfields Diaries | 2011 | National Library of Australia, Canberra | [14][15] |
Australia | Holtermann Collection of glass plate negatives | 2013 | State Library of New South Wales, Sydney | [16] |
Cambodia | Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archives | 2009 | Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh | [5] |
China | Traditional Music Sound Archives | 1997 | Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing | [17] |
China | Records of the Qing's Grand Secretariat - 'Infiltration of Western Culture in China' | 1999 | Palace Museum, Beijing | [18] |
China | Ancient Naxi Dongba Literature Manuscripts | 2003 | Lijiang Prefecture Dongba Research Institute, Dayan | [19] |
China | Golden Lists of the Qing Dynasty Imperial Examination | 2005 | State Archives, Beijing | [20] |
China | Qing Dynasty Yangshi Lei Archives | 2007 | Various locations | [21] |
China | Ben Cao Gang Mu | 2011 | Library of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences | [22] |
China | Huang Di Nei Jing | 2011 | National Library of China | [23] |
China | Official Records of Tibet from the Yuan Dynasty China, 1304-1367 | 2013 | [24] | |
China | Qiaopi and Yinxin Correspondence and Remittance Documents from Overseas Chinese | 2013 | [25] | |
China | Documents of Nanjing Massacre | 2015 | [26] | |
India | The I.A.S. Tamil Medical Manuscript Collection | 1997 | Institute of Asian Studies, Tamil Nadu | [27] |
India | Saiva Manuscript in Puducherry | 2005 | French Institute of Pondicherry, Pondicherry | [28] |
India | Rigveda | 2007 | Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune | [6] |
Indonesia | Archives of the Dutch East India Company | 2003 | Various Places | [29] |
Indonesia | La Galigo | 2011 | Fort Rotterdam, Makassar; Leiden University Library, Leiden | [30] |
Indonesia | Nagarakretagama | 2013 | National Library of Indonesia, Jakarta | [31] |
Indonesia | Babad Diponegoro | 2013 | National Library of Indonesia, Jakarta | [32] |
Iran | “Bayasanghori Shâhnâmeh” (Prince Bayasanghor’s Book of the Kings) | 2007 | Golestan Palace, Tehran | [7] |
Iran | The Deed For Endowment: Rab’ I-Rashidi (Rab I-Rashidi Endowment) 13th Century manuscript | 2007 | Tabriz Central Library, Tabriz | [33] |
Iran | Administrative Documents of Astan-e Quds Razavi in the Safavid Era | 2009 | Astan-e Quds Razavi Library, Mashhad | [34] |
Japan | Sakubei Yamamoto Collection | 2011 | Tagawa, Fukuoka | [35] |
Japan | Materials Related to the Keicho-era Mission to Europe Japan and Spain | 2013 | Sendai City Museum, Sendai | [36] |
Japan | Midokanpakuki: the original handwritten diary of Fujiwara no Michinaga | 2013 | Yōmei Bunko, Kyoto | [37] |
Japan | Archives of Tōji temple contained in one-hundred boxes | 2015 | Kyoto Prefectural Library, Kyoto | [38] |
Japan | Return to Maizuru Port—Documents Related to the Internment and Repatriation Experiences of Japanese (1945-1956) | 2015 | Maizuru | [39] |
Kazakhstan | Collection of manuscripts of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi | 2003 | National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty | [40] |
Kazakhstan | Audiovisual documents of the International antinuclear movement “Nevada-Semipalatinsk” | 2005 | State Archive & State Archive of Film, Almaty | [41] |
Malaysia | Correspondence of the late Sultan of Kedah (1882–1943) | 2001 | National Archives of Malaysia, Alor Setar | [42] |
Malaysia | Hikayat Hang Tuah | 2001 | National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur | [43] |
Malaysia | Sejarah Melayu (the Malay Annals) | 2001 | Institute of Language and Literature, Kuala Lumpur | [44] |
Malaysia | Batu Bersurat, Terengganu (Inscribed Stone of Terengganu) | 2009 | Terengganu State Museum, Kuala Terengganu | [45] |
Myanmar | Kuthodaw Inscription Shrines | 2013 | Kuthodaw Pagoda, Mandalay | [46] |
Myanmar | Myazedi Quadrilingual Stone Inscription | 2015 | Myinkaba village, Bagan, Mandalay Region | [47] |
Nepal | Niśvāsattatvasaṃhitā manuscript | 2013 | National Archive of Nepal, Kathmandu | [48] |
Nepal | Susrutamhita (Sahottartantra) manuscript | 2013 | Kaiser Library, Kathmandu | [49] |
New Zealand | Treaty of Waitangi | 1997 | National Archives, Wellington | [50] |
New Zealand | The 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition | 1997 | National Archives, Wellington | [51] |
New Zealand | Sir Edmund Hillary Archive | 2013 | Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland | [52] |
New Zealand | A korao no New Zealand | 2014 | Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland | [53] |
Pakistan | Jinnah Papers (Quaid-I-Azam) | 1999 | National Archives, Islamabad | [54] |
Philippines | Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Build, Tagbanua and Pala'wan) | 1999 | National Museum, Manila | [55] |
Philippines | Radio Broadcast of the Philippine People Power Revolution | 2003 | Radio Veritas Asia, Quezon City; Raja Broadcasting Network, Makati City; Personal Archives of Mr. Orly Punzalan, Dasmariñas | [56] |
Philippines | José Maceda Collection | 2007 | U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology, Quezon City | [57] |
Philippines | Presidential Papers of Manuel L. Quezon | 2011 | The Manuel L. Quezon Papers, University of Michigan Library | [58] |
Republic of Korea | The Dongui Bogam | 2009 | National Library of Korea, Seoul | [59] |
Republic of Korea | The The Archives of the KBS Special Live Broadcast "Finding Dispersed Families" | 2015 | KBS, Seoul | [60] |
Republic of Korea | The Hunmin Chongum Manuscript | 1997 | Gansong Art Museum, Seoul | [61] |
Republic of Korea | The Annals of the Choson Dynasty | 1997 | Cheongoksan Sagobon, Seoul | [62] |
Republic of Korea | Seungjeongwon ilgi, the Diaries of the Royal Secretariat | 2001 | Kyujanggak Library and Seoul National University, Seoul | [63] |
Republic of Korea | Baegun hwasang chorok buljo jikji simche yojeol (vol. II), the second volume of "Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests’ Zen Teachings" | 2001 | National Library of France, Paris | [64] |
Republic of Korea | Printing woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana and miscellaneous Buddhist scriptures | 2007 | Haeinsa Monastery, Gyeongsangnam-do | [65] |
Republic of Korea | Uigwe: The Royal Protocols of the Joseon Dynasty | 2007 | Seoul National University, Seoul | [66] |
Republic of Korea | Human Rights Documentary Heritage 1980 Archives for the May 18th Democratic Uprising against Military Regime, in Gwangju, Republic of Korea | 2011 | Gwangju City Hall; May 18 Memorial Foundation, Gwangju; Chonnam National University, Gwangju | [67] |
Republic of Korea | Ilseongnok: Records of Daily Reflections | 2011 | Seoul National University, Seoul | [68] |
Republic of Korea | Nanjung Ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin | 2013 | Hyeonchungsa Shrine, Asan | [69] |
Republic of Korea | Archives of Saemaul Undong (New Community Movement) | 2013 | Korea Saemaul Undong Center, Seoul | [70] |
Tajikistan | The manuscript of Ubayd Zakoni's Kulliyat and Hafez Sherozi's Gazalliyt (14th century) | 2003 | Institute of the Written Heritage of the Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe | [71] |
Thailand | The King Ram Khamhaeng Inscription | 2003 | National Museum, Bangkok | [72] |
Thailand | Archival Documents of King Chulalongkorn's Transformation of Siam (1868–1910) | 2009 | National Library of Thailand, Bangkok; National Archives of Thailand, Bangkok | [73] |
Thailand | Epigraphic Archives of Wat Pho | 2011 | Wat Pho, Bangkok | [74] |
Thailand | 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 | 2013 | Bangkok | [75] |
Uzbekistan | Holy Koran Mushaf of Othman | 1997 | The Muslim Board of Uzbekistan, Tashkent | [9] |
Uzbekistan | The Collection of the Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies | 1997 | Academy of Sciences, Tashkent | [76] |
Vietnam | Woodblocks of the Nguyễn Dynasty | 2009 | State Records and Archives Department of Vietnam, Hanoi | [77] |
Vietnam | Stone stele records of imperial examinations of the Lê and Mạc dynasties | 2010 | Temple of Literature | [78] |
Notes
^ A. Names and spellings provided are based on the official list released by the Memory of the World Programme.
References
- ↑ "Third Meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Programme". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ↑ "UNESCO MEMORY OF THE WORLD PROGRAMME: The Asia-Pacific Strategy". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. 1999-04-17. Archived from the original on 2005-02-28. Retrieved 2004-10-21.
- ↑ "Twenty-three new inscriptions on Memory of the World Register of Documentary Collections". UNESCO Press. 2003-09-01. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- 1 2 "The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- 1 2 "Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archives". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- 1 2 "Rigveda". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- 1 2 ""Bayasanghori Shâhnâmeh" (Prince Bayasanghor's Book of the Kings)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon, the Depositories for the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks". World Heritage Center. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- 1 2 "Holy Koran Mushaf of Othman". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "The Endeavour Journal of James Cook". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "The Mabo Case Manuscripts". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "The Convict Records of Australia". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party to the people of Queensland". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ UNESCO, Australian Register of the Memory of the World
- ↑ [State Library Victorian blog http://news.blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/2013/05/15/unesco-adds-gold-rush-diaries-to-australian-memory-of-the-world-register/#.UyuukdLxvVs]
- ↑ The Holtermann Collection. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ↑ "Traditional Music Sound Archives". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Records of the Qing's Grand Secretariat - 'Infiltration of Western Culture in China'". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Ancient Naxi Dongba Literature Manuscripts". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Golden Lists of the Qing Dynasty Imperial Examination". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Qing Dynasty Yangshi Lei Archives". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Ben Cao Gang Mu (《本草纲目》 Compendium of Materia Medica)". Memory of the World.
- ↑ "Huang Di Nei Jing 《黄帝内经》 (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon)". Memory of the World.
- ↑ "Official Records of Tibet from the Yuan Dynasty China, 1304-1367". Memory of the World.
- ↑ "Qiaopi and Yinxin Correspondence and Remittance Documents from Overseas Chinese". Memory of the World.
- ↑ "Documents of Nanjing Massacre". Memory of the World.
- ↑ "The I.A.S. Tamil Medical Manuscript Collection". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Saiva Manuscript in Pondicherry". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Archives of the Dutch East India Company". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2013-12-26.
- ↑ "La Galigo". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2013-12-26.
- ↑ "Nagarakretagama". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2013-12-26.
- ↑ "Babad Diponegoro". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2013-12-26.
- ↑ "The Deed For Endowment: Rab' I-Rashidi (Rab I-Rashidi Endowment) 13th Century manuscript". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Administrative Documents of Astan-e Quds Razavi in the Safavid Era". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Sakubei Yamamoto Collection". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
- ↑ "Materials Related to the Keichoera Mission to Europe Japan and Spain". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
- ↑ "Midokanpakuki: the original handwritten diary of Fujiwara no Michinaga". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
- ↑ "Archives of Tōji temple contained in one-hundred boxes". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
- ↑ "Return to Maizuru Port—Documents Related to the Internment and Repatriation Experiences of Japanese (1945-1956)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
- ↑ "Collection of manuscripts of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Audiovisual documents of the International antinuclear movement "Nevada-Semipalatinsk"". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Correspondence of the late Sultan of Kedah (1882-1943)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Hikayat Hang Tuah". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Sejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Batu Bersurat, Terengganu (Inscribed Stone of Terengganu)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Maha Lawkamarazein or Kuthodaw Inscription Shrines". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
- ↑ "Myazedi Quadrilingual Stone Inscription". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
- ↑ "Niśvāsattatvasaṃhitā manuscript". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
- ↑ "Susrutamhita (Sahottartantra) manuscript". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
- ↑ "The Treaty of Waitangi". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "The 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Sir Edmund Hillary Archive". www.unescomow.org.nz. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
- ↑ "A korao no New Zealand". www.unescomow.org.nz. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
- ↑ "Jinnah Papers". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala'wan)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Radio Broadcast of the Philippine People Power Revolution". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "José Maceda Collection". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Presidential Papers". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
- ↑ "Donguibogam".
- ↑ "KBS".
- ↑ "The Hunmin Chongum Manuscript". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "The Annals of the Choson Dynasty". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Seungjeongwon Ilgi, the Diaries of the Royal Secretariat". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Baegun hwasang chorok buljo jikji simche yojeol (vol.II), the second volume of "Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests' Zen Teachings"". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Printing woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana and miscellaneous Buddhist scriptures". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Uigwe: The Royal Protocols of the Joseon Dynasty". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Human Rights Documentary Heritage 1980 Archives for the May 18th Democratic Uprising against Military Regime, in Gwangju, Republic of Korea". Retrieved 2013-06-18.
- ↑ "Ilseongnok: Records of Daily Reflections". Retrieved 2013-06-18.
- ↑ "Nanjung Ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin". Retrieved 2013-06-18.
- ↑ "Archives of Saemaul Undong (New Community Movement)". Retrieved 2013-06-18.
- ↑ "The manuscript of Ubayd Zakoni's Kulliyat and Hafez Sherozi's Gazalliyt (XIV century)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "The King Ram Khamhaeng Inscription". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Archival Documents of King Chulalongkorn's Transformation of Siam (1868-1910)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Epigraphic Archives of Wat Pho". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
- ↑ "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". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2014-06-26.
- ↑ "The Collection of the Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "Woodblocks of Nguyen Dynasty". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ↑ "First inscription from Macao on Memory of the World Register at MOWCAP 4". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2010-04-07.