the New Testament
The earliest known manuscript of Beowulf was transcribed by two Anglo-Saxon scribes in the 10th century. The manuscript is known as the Nowell Codex or the Beowulf manuscript and is currently housed in the British Library.
Soccer/football - The earliest reference to this sort of game is Chinese manuscript placing it about 200 BC. Baseball/Rounders -The earliest reference to this sort of game is a French manuscript of 1344 AD.
Moses wrote the books of law.
The earliest known manuscript of Beowulf was transcribed by two scribes around the year 1000 in Old English. It is commonly referred to as the Nowell Codex or Cotton Vitellius A XV.
The earliest sources are a manuscript called "The Gest of Robin Hood," which cobbles together four ballads, and another four manuscript ballads. My novel The Robin Hood Chronicles is based on these eight ballads.
The earliest known manuscript of Beowulf was likely transcribed in the late 10th century or early 11th century by an unknown scribe. The manuscript is known as the Nowell Codex or the Cotton MS Vitellius A XV. It is currently housed in the British Library in London.
It was burned in a library fire. that is not true. there was a fire in the library, though Beowulf was injured, it did survive the fire.
The earliest reference to toothpaste is made in a manuscript from Egypt and the manuscript was believed to have been written in 4th century AD. So in essence, and current evidence the Egyptians were the inventors of toothpaste.
The Luttrell Psalter illuminated manuscript was created in the fourteenth century during the Middle Ages in England. Various scholars have debated the creation of the manuscript to be within the period of 1320 and 1345. The story of the Luttrell Psalter displays the earliest phases of the Gothic Revival in England.The lluminated manuscript was commissioned by and for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, Lord of the Manor of Irnham in Lincolnshire. Sir Geoffrey Luttrell was a rich land owner. The manuscript, initially a private creation, then came into public notice in 1794, when miniatures of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, his wife, and the daughter-in-law were produced along with a summary of the book.
Firstly, it needs to be understood that there are no surviving original manuscripts of the New Testament. The earliest surviving manuscripts of the Old Testament date to the 10th Century AD. There are 5,686 manuscripts of the New Testament in existence. Manuscript fragment p52, also known as the John Rylands fragment which contains John 18:3`1-33, 37-38, is dated around 125 AD, although some scholars date it as early as 110 AD. Many other manuscript fragments date from late in the second century although some scholars date them somewhat earlier. The Codex Vaticanus is the earliest known complete manuscript to have survived being dated to around 325-350 AD.
The Father of Latin prose was Caecus. He was a Roman politician and a copy of one of his speeches is the earliest known political manuscript in Latin in existence.
The earliest sign of tooth paste was in a manuscript from the 4th century A.D. The Greeks and Romans later improved this invention down the road.