In I 995 different institutions started the publication of the CD-ROM series connected with the handwritten heritage.
The “Memory of the World” program of UNESCO was presented as the realization of the new approach to
safeguarding documentary materials and as the first step in creating the decentralized interactive world library. The
first issues of the series will contain the manuscripts and early printed hooks of the Prague National Library, those
of Sofia, the Radzivil Chronicle stored in the Library of the Academy of Sciences (St. Peters burg, Russia), Memoria
de Iberoamerica, the San‘a‘ manuscripts, and the manuscripts preserved in the Kandilli Observatory in Istanbul. Some of the above-mentioned CD-ROMs are already published...