The earliest and largest collection of prehistoric musical instruments was found in China and dates back to between 7000 and 6600 BC.

When the text of a treaty is later reprinted, such as in a collection of treaties currently in effect, an editor will often append the dates on which the respective parties ratified the treaty and on which it came into effect for each party.

The elder Jaggard has seemed an odd choice to many commentators, given his problematical relationship with the Shakespeare canon: Jaggard issued the suspect collection The Passionate Pilgrim in 1599 and 1612, and in 1619 printed the so-called False Folio, ten pirated or spurious Shakespearean plays, some with false dates and title pages.

The Highlanes Gallery houses Drogheda's important municipal art collection which dates from the 17th century as well as visiting exhibitions in a venue which meets key international museum and gallery standards.

Bellows ( 1936 ) identifies as the core of the poem a " collection of proverbs and wise counsels " which dates to " a very early time ", but which, by the nature of oral tradition, never had a fixed form or extent.

The oldest known copy of the Qur ' an so far belongs to this collection: it dates to the end of the 7th – 8th centuries.

The other genealogies in the Anglian collection close with historic personages whose dates are known, such as Edwin of Deira ( 616-33 ), Ethelred of Mercia ( 675-704 ) and Ethelbert II of Kent ( 725-62 ), but this wide range offers little help in dating Aldfrið.

* Like Ath, Nivelles boasts a collection of giant puppets, one of which, Goliath, dates from 1365.

The oldest episode on the collection dates from September 29, 1979, while the latest episode is from April 10, 2010.

Ptolemy, the Alexandrian astronomer ( 2nd century ) wrote a treatise, Phaseis —" phases of fixed stars and collection of weather-changes " is the translation of its full title — the core of which is a parapegma, a list of dates of seasonally regular weather changes, first appearances and last appearances of stars or constellations at sunrise or sunset, and solar events such as solstices, all organized according to the solar year.

In addition to the basic four-week cycle of praying nearly the entire set of Psalms with each of the canonical hours, the Church also provides an alternate collection of hymns, readings, psalms, canticles and antiphons, for use in marking specific dates on the Roman Calendar, which sets out the order of celebrations for the liturgical year.

The collection dates from the 1890s and is an important resource for researchers, writers, artists, and communities.

The library still contains most of its original collection, the oldest volume of which dates to 1687.

" The art collection at Vassar dates to the founding of the College, when Vassar provided an extensive collection of Hudson River School paintings to be displayed in the Main Building.

The monumental Palm House dates from 1912 and is renowned for its collection of cycads.

The Chuci collection consists primarily of poems ascribed to Qu Yuan ( 329-299 BCE ) and his follower Song Yu, although in its present form the anthology dates to Wang I's 158 CE compilation and notes, which are the only historically reliable source of both the text and information regarding its composition.

The earliest cataloging of fingerprints dates back to 1881 when Juan Vucetich started a collection of fingerprints of criminals in Argentina.

The collection of the Museum of Natural Sciences dates back from 1720.

The shield collection which dates to ca.

Its finished form dates to c. 920, though according to several historical accounts the last poem was added to the collection in 914.

He had planted the artifacts from his own collection in strata that would have indicated earlier dates.

The Palace Museum's bronze collection dates from the early Shang Dynasty.

The use of the term " flight " to describe a collection of aircraft ( typically four in the early days of aviation ) dates back to around 1912.

The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).

Along with the Pontificale, Ealdred may have brought back from Cologne the first manuscript of the Cambridge Songs to enter England, a collection of Latin Goliardic songs which became famous in the Middle Ages.

The Cottonian Library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton, dated back to Elizabethan times and the Harleian library, the collection of the Earls of Oxford.

* A collection of historical articles on the Borzoi breed, some dating as far back as 1891

The texts of these citations are quoted on the back of the comic strip collection Welcome to Club Scud!

A fresh collection vessel can then be added to the system, evacuated and linked back into the distillation system via the taps to collect a second fraction, and so on, until all fractions have been collected.

This simple " re-linking " of related data back into a single collection is something that traditional computer languages are not designed for.

His attitude toward madrigals was somewhat enigmatic: whereas in the preface to his collection of Canticum canticorum ( Song of Songs ) motets ( 1584 ) he renounced the setting of profane texts, only two years later he was back in print with Book II of his secular madrigals ( some of these being among the finest compositions in the medium ).

The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.

This midrash collection was redacted into its final form around the 3rd or 4th century ; its contents indicate that its sources are some of the oldest midrashim, dating back possibly to the time of Rabbi Akiva.

There is a small collection of transparencies at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris which shows a two-piece slide he used with one glass showing the face of a phantom and the other which had the image of the eyes, which when used meant the eyes could roll back and forth.

Satisfied that his Japanese collaborators would continue his work, he journeyed back on the frigate Java to his former residence, Batavia, in possession of his enormous collection of thousands of animals and plants, his books and his maps.

Perhaps the most definitive usage of the pseudonym for his hometown, in Summer Morning, Summer Night, a collection of short stories and vignettes exclusively about Green Town, Bradbury returns to the signature locale as a look back at the rapidly disappearing small-town world of the American heartland, which was the foundation of his roots.

This was followed by the collection The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems ( 1889 ), which arranged a series of verse that dated as far back as the mid-1880s.

Ono released the album Yes, I'm a Witch in 2007, a collection of remixes and covers from her back catalog by various artists including The Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Antony, DJ Spooky, Porcupine Tree and Peaches, released in February 2007, along with a special edition of Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band.

The Digesta or Pandectae, completed in 533, is a collection of juristic writings, mostly dating back to the second and third centuries.

Museums include the Turkmen Fine Arts Museum and Turkmen Carpet Museum, noted for their impressive collection of woven carpets as well as a Turkmen history museum and the Ashgabat National Museum of History, which displays artifacts dating back to the Parthian and Persian civilizations.

The Grandmaster's Palace Armoury Museum exhibits a collection of full suits of armour, arms and guns dating back to the 15th century.

The keeper of the collection, John Elphinstone ( or his assistant, David Casley ), had transcribed the 325 lines of the poem in 1724, but the front and back pages were already missing from the manuscript ( possibly around 50 lines each ): an earlier catalog described it as fragmentum capite et calce mutilatum (" mutilated at head and heel ").

Bayer and Mehle instigated a unique program for the collection in that large paintings and sculptures were often " circulated " within the company and transported from one Arco building to another, often making the journey from LA to New York and back again.

Vonnegut later joked in a speech, published in the collection Fates Worse Than Death, that " Ever since that word was published, way back in 1969, children have been attempting to have intercourse with their mothers.