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[16] [17] The oldest extant printed book is a work of the Diamond Sutra and dates back to 868 CE, during the Tang Dynasty. [16] The Diamond Sutra was printed by method of woodblock printing , a strenuous method in which the text to be printed would be carved into a woodblock's surface, essentially to be used to stamp the words onto the writing ...
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
A New Account of the Tales of the World (世說新語, Shì Shuō Xīn Yǔ) The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (文心雕龍, Wén Xīn Diāo Lóng) Bao Zhao: Fu on the Ruined City (蕪城賦, Wú Chéng Fù) Fan Ye: Book of the Later Han (後漢書, Hòuhàn Shū) You Ming Lu (幽明錄, Collection of Supernatural Tales)
A book from Egypt that was written at the dawn of Christianity and is considered one of the oldest books in existence will go up for auction in June in London. The Crosby-Schoyen Codex - written ...
List of books by Barbara Cartland; List of books by G. K. Chesterton; List of books by Agatha Christie; List of books by Jacques Derrida; List of works by Neil Gaiman; List of books by William Gibson; List of books by Graham Greene; List of books by Clive Hamilton; List of books by Friedrich Hayek; List of works by Søren Kierkegaard; List of ...
Nine Books of Disciplines by Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC-27 BC) Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder (AD 77-79); highly influential through the Middle Ages, the oldest encyclopedia for which there is an extant copy; De verborum significatione by Sextus Pompeius Festus (2nd century AD) Onomasticon by Julius Pollux (2nd century AD)
An extreme case is the Vedic Sanskrit of the Rigveda: the earliest parts of this text date to c. 1500 BC, [1] while the oldest known manuscripts date to c. 1040 AD. [2] Similarly the oldest Avestan texts, the Gathas, are believed to have been composed before 1000 BC, but the oldest Avestan manuscripts date from the 13th century AD. [3]
Egyptian papyrus was exported across the world, and ultimately became the subject of great demand. As a result, it became costly and was replaced by other materials including leather and parchment. [72] With the invention of wood-pulp paper, the cost of writing material began to steadily decline. While advancements in the mass production of ...