Memory of the World; 2012 - unesdoc - Unesco

Contents
Foreword .........................................................................9
The emotional power of documents .............................11
World map and Memory of the World Register ............12
The book is ordered by the date the documents were
recorded. Each entry has a timeline at the top of the page.
The Hittite cuneiform tablets from Bogazköy ............... 24
Rigveda .......................................................................... 26
Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer ............................................. 28
Commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb,
Mount Lebanon .............................................................30
The Phoenician alphabet ............................................... 32
Huang Di Nei Jing ���� (Yellow Emperor’s
Inner Canon)...................................................................35
Ancient Naxi Dongba literature manuscripts ................ 36
Mashtots Matenadaran ancient
manuscripts collection .................................................. 38
Saiva manuscripts in Pondicherry .................................40
Codex Argenteus – the ‘Silver Bible’ .............................. 42
Codex Purpureus Beratinus .......................................... 44
Vienna Dioscurides ....................................................... 46
Earliest Islamic (Kufic) inscription ................................. 48
Holy Koran Mushaf of Othman ..................................... 50
Lucca’s historical diocesan archives ............................... 52
The Book of Kells ........................................................... 54
Laghukālacakratantrarājatikā (Vimalaprabhā)...............59
The collection of the Al-Biruni Institute
of Oriental Studies ........................................................60
Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Buid,
Tagbanua and Pala’wan)................................................. 61
Georgian Byzantine manuscripts .................................. 62
Deeds of sultans and princes ........................................ 65
Illuminated manuscripts from the Ottonian
period produced in the monastery of Reichenau
(Lake Constance) ............................................................ 66
Enina Apostolos, Old Bulgarian Cyrillic manuscript
(fragment) of the 11th century ....................................... 68
Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research
Institute manuscripts .................................................... 70
Codex Suprasliensis ........................................................71
The works of Ibn Sina in the Süleymaniye
Manuscript Library .........................................................72
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Al-Tafhim li Awa’il Sana’at al-Tanjim ............................. 76
Ostromir Gospel (1056–1057) ......................................... 78
Bayeux Tapestry .............................................................80
Archangel Gospel of 1092 .............................................. 83
Illuminated codices from the library of the Bratislava
Chapter House .............................................................. 84
Medieval manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy ...... 86
The Arnamagnæan manuscript collection ..................... 87
Miroslav Gospel – manuscript from 1180......................90
Tabula Peutingeriana ..................................................... 92
Song of the Nibelungs, a heroic poem from
medieval Europe ............................................................ 94
Magna Carta, issued in 1215 .......................................... 96
Printing woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana .............. 98
MS. GKS 4 2°, vol. I–III, Biblia Latina. Commonly
called ‘The Hamburg Bible’ .........................................100
Hereford Mappa Mundi .............................................. 102
The King Ram Khamhaeng inscription ....................... 104
Library Ets Haim–Livraria Montezinos ........................ 108
The manuscript of Ubayd Zakoni’s Kulliyat and
Hafez Sherozi’s Gazalliyt ...............................................110
Collection of medieval manuscripts of the
Czech Reformation .......................................................112
The Deed For Endowment: Rab’ i-Rashidi
(Rab i-Rashidi Endowment) ..........................................114
Batu Bersurat, Terengganu (Inscribed Stone
of Terengganu) .............................................................116
La Galigo....................................................................... 117
Persian illustrated and illuminated manuscripts .........118
Collection of Nezami’s Panj Ganj ................................ 120
Baegun hwasang chorok buljo jikji simche
yojeol (vol. II) ................................................................122
Khitrovo Gospel ............................................................123
The Annals of the Joseon dynasty ................................124
Kitab al-ibar, wa diwan al-mobtadae wa al-khabar .......125
Slavonic publications in Cyrillic script of the
15th century ..................................................................126
Treasures from National Archives and Library
organizations ................................................................127
Corpo Cronológico (collection of manuscripts on
the Portuguese discoveries) ..........................................128
Radziwills’ Archives and Niasvizh (Nieśwież)
Library collection ......................................................... 130
Collection of Gothic architectural drawings ................134