The earliest Mesopotamian objects to enter the collection were purchased by the British Museum in 1772 from Sir William Hamilton.

To, the Toledo codex now kept in the National Library in Madrid, is the earliest collection and contains 129 songs.

The earliest known Wiccan version is found in a document dating from the late 1940s, Gereald Gardner's ritual notebook titled Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical ( fomerly in the collection of Ripley's International, Toronto ).

The museum houses an impressive collection associated with ancient Delphi, including the earliest known notation of a melody, the famous Charioteer, golden treasures discovered beneath the Sacred Way, and fragments of reliefs from the Siphnian Treasury.

The Beginnings of Electric Sound Generation – an exhibit at the Museum of Making Music, National Association of Music Merchants, Carlsbad, CA – some of the earliest electric guitars and their history, from the collection of Lynn Wheelwright and others

In the earliest surviving gospel collection, Papyrus 45 of the 3rd century, it is placed second in the order Matthew, John, Luke and Mark, an order which is also found in other very early New Testament manuscripts.

The earliest known example of galvanizing of iron was found on 17th century Indian armor in the Royal Armouries Museum collection.

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

The " Philipp Franz von Siebold collection ", containing many type specimens, was the earliest botanical collection from Japan.

For a long time, scholars believed him to be identical with the 12th-century canon lawyer and theologian Master Roland of Bologna, who composed the " Stroma " or " Summa Rolandi "— one of the earliest commentaries on the Decretum of Gratian — and the " Sententiae Rolandi ", a sentence collection displaying the influence of Pierre Abélard.

KTH's earliest Swedish predecessor was the Laboratorium mechanicum, a collection of mechanical models for teaching created in 1697 by Christopher Polhem, who is considered to be the father of mechanics in Sweden.

The earliest spring-driven timepiece with a second hand which marked seconds is an unsigned clock depicting Orpheus in the Fremersdorf collection, dated between 1560 and During the 3rd quarter of the 16th century, Taqi al-Din built a clock with marks every 1 / 5 minute.

The Residents ' earliest videos are in the New York Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection and were eventually released together in 2001 on the Icky Flix DVD, which includes an optional audio track of remixes.

* 1278 – The earliest known written copy of the Avesta, a collection of ancient sacred Persian Zoroastrian texts previously passed down orally, is produced.

* The earliest known manuscript of The Proverbs of Alfred, a collection of sayings of England's Alfred the Great, is written.

* The earliest known written copy of the Avesta, a collection of ancient sacred Persian Zoroastrian texts previously passed down orally, is produced.

The earliest approaches to modern bird study involved the collection of eggs, a practice known as oology.

The Nights is almost certainly the earliest surviving literature that mentions ghouls, and many of the stories in that collection involve or reference ghouls.

The earliest collection was limited and kept secret, though according to Pliny the function of fertility was represented by the image of a male sex organ.

The earliest biography of Muhammad, Ibn Ishaq ( 761-767 ) is lost but his collection of traditions survives mainly in two sources: Ibn Hisham ( 833 ) and al-Tabari ( 915 ).

Probably the earliest reference to coca in English literature is Abraham Cowley's poem " The Legend of Coca " in his 1662 collection of poems " Six Books of Plants ".

The earliest attestation of Hatshepsut as pharaoh occurs in the tomb of Ramose and Hatnofer where a collection of grave goods contained a single pottery jar or amphora from the tomb's chamber — which was stamped with the date Year 7.

The chief architect of Poplog, responsible for many innovations related to making an incrementally compiled system portable, and providing support for a collection of languages was John Gibson, at Sussex University, though the earliest work was done by Steve Hardy.

His earliest stories, written in 1957-58, when Campbell was but eleven years of age, comprised a collection called Ghostly Tales.

* Stations of the Elevated ( 1980 ), the earliest documentary about subway graffiti in New York City, with music by Charles Mingus

The priests of Lupercus later celebrated certain ceremonies of the Lupercalia there, from the earliest days of the City until AD 494, when the practice was ended by Pope Gelasius I.

It was one of the earliest Italian operas to be performed in America, premiering in New Orleans on 4 March 1823 at the Orleans Theatre, and subsequently at the Park Theatre in New York City on 29 November 1825.

Laid out by Pierre ( Peter ) Charles L ' Enfant, Pennsylvania Avenue was one of the earliest streets constructed in the Federal City.

One of her very earliest public performances was at a retreat in Saratoga, California, for a youth group from Temple Beth Jacob, a Redwood City, California, congregation.

The earliest documentation of its existence is an advertisement for " Gem Paper Clips " published by Cushman & Denison, 172 9th Avenue, New York City, in The Book-Keeper, August 1894, p. 6.

The earliest towns were Anclote, Blanton, Dade City, Earnestville, Fort Dade, Macon ( Trilby ), Lacoochee and San Antonio.

One of the earliest Videos of a Top 40 hit, was Jan & Dean's " Surf City ", produced in Summer 1963, contemporaneous with the single release reaching Number One nationally in July 1963 ( ref: Wikipedia ).

The residences of Sumter Cogswell and Green Evans ( Pell City ’ s first mayor ) are two of the earliest structures, dating from the late nineteenth century.

A remnant of the city's earliest years can be found in North Little Rock City Hall ( constructed in 1914 ), which still contains plaques referring to " Argenta ", and contains " C of A " ( City of Argenta ) ornamental designs.

Named after a Seminole chief, the territorial town of Micanopy was built under the auspices of the Florida Association of New York ( the earliest Florida development corporation, headquartered in New York City ).

The earliest recorded minutes of the City of Reynolds found in the City Hall are dated January 10, 1913.

Some of the earliest visitors to the area that became Cottage City and later Oak Bluffs were Methodists, who gathered in the oak grove each summer for for multi-day religious " camp meetings " held under large tents and in the open air.

Several descendants of the earliest residents of Stotts City still live in the area.

The earliest organized religious services in Stephens City began in 1790s when a Methodist Episcopal church was created in the town.

Drawing on the earliest description of the house, from 1380, the Salford City Council describes how it comprised " a hall, five chambers, a kitchen and a chapel.

In the late 20's, Hawkins also participated in some of the earliest interracial recording sessions with the Mound City Blue Blowers.

The streets of major cities in present day Pakistan such as Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, the world's earliest planned cities, were laid out in a perfect grid pattern comparable to that of present day New York City.

In New York City, Columbia Records had some of the most highly respected sound recording studios, including the Columbia 30th Street Studio at 207 East 30th Street, the CBS Studio Building at 49 East 52nd Street, Liederkranz Hall at 111 East 58th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues ( a building built by and formerly belonging to a German cultural and musical society, The Liederkranz Club and Society ), and one of their earliest recording studios, " Studio A " at 799 Seventh Avenue.

The thirteenth century carving " Nine Good Heroes " ( known as " Neun Gute Helden " in the original German ) at Cologne City Hall | City Hall in Cologne, Germany is the earliest known representation of the Nine Worthies.

Remsen, a New York City merchant and owner of Henry Remsen Jr. & Co., was the descendant of some of the earliest Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam.

One of his earliest jobs was at The Second City, Chicago, where he shared the stage with Robert Klein, and David Steinberg.