The earliest written copy survives and is part of the collections of the National Library of Wales.

Bogart's earliest film role is with Helen Hayes in the 1928 two-reeler The Dancing Town, of which a complete copy has never been found.

The earliest parchment copy of the work is referred to as Kringla.

In 1902 Georg Andresen commented on the appearance of the first ' i ' and subsequent gap in the earliest extant, 11th century, copy of the Annals in Florence, suggesting that the text had been altered, and an ' e ' had originally been in the text, rather than this ' i '.

* c. 640s BC: Assyrian king Ashurbanipal founds library, which included our earliest complete copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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

The first literary connection of Joseph of Arimathea with Britain had to wait for the ninth-century Life of Mary Magdalene attributed to Rabanus Maurus ( AD 766 – 856 ), Archbishop of Mainz ; however, the earliest authentic copy of the Maurus text is one housed in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.

* Assyrian king Ashurbanipal founds library, which includes our earliest complete copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

* 2nd millennium BC – earliest possible date for the composition of the Babylonian Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, a 7th century BC copy of a list of observations of the motions of the planet Venus, and the oldest planetary table currently known.

Though Bermondsey's earliest written appearance is in the Domesday Book of 1086, it also appears in a source which, though surviving only in a copy written at Peterborough Abbey in the 12th century, reliably describes earlier events.

Probably one of the earliest devices to use parallel were dongles used as a hardware key form of software copy protection.

The earliest known copy of volume 5 of the Canon of Medicine dated 1052 is held in the collection of the Aga Khan and is to be housed in the Aga Khan Museum planned for Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

It is the only known nearly complete copy of the earliest edition of a missal according to the Sarum Rite still in existence.

In reality, the video was available, but priced for rental shops and film enthusiasts who wanted to own a copy of the film at the earliest opportunity.

Another document referring to the earliest piano is a marginal note made by one of the Medici court musicians, Federigo Meccoli, in a copy of the book Le Istitutioni harmoniche by Gioseffo Zarlino.

* 1377 – Production of the earliest known copy of the Laurentian Codex.

* September 24-The earliest known copy of the Corante, generally regarded as " the first English newspaper ", is published.

* A copy of the Gutenberg Bible from 1455, the earliest European example of a book produced using moveable type.

* Production of the earliest known copy of the Laurentian Codex.

The earliest surviving copy of the actual alphabet was found is an incunabulum from 1483, found at the library of the castle of Nikolsburg, now Mikulov in Moravia, hand-written onto the endpaper of the printed book.

About 1858 he began to purchase rare books, one of the earliest of such purchases being a copy of the Mazarin Bible, and within a period of forty years he possessed six separate copies of this rare and valuable edition.

The earliest surviving copy, ( P = codex Parisinus gr.

They include some of the earliest attested manuscripts of existing texts such as the I Ching, two copies of the Tao Te Ching, one similar copy of Strategies of the Warring States, and a similar school of works of Gan De and Shi Shen, as well as previously unknown medical texts like Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments.

A copy of the Chinese version of Diamond Sūtra, found among the Dunhuang manuscripts in the early 20th century and dated back to May 11, 868, is, in the words of the British Library, " the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book.

One tablet from this period reads, "( From the earliest days ) no-one had made a statue of lead, ( but ) Rimush king of Kish, had a statue of himself made of lead.

The earliest written reference to a flute is from a Sumerian-language cuneiform tablet dated to c. 2600-2700 BCE.

The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 24th century BC.

Iraq holds a special distinction in the history of geography: a clay tablet generally accepted as " the earliest known map " was unearthed in 1930 during the excavation of Ga-Sur at Nuzi Yorghan Tepe, near the towns of Harran and Kirkuk, north of the site of Babylon.

The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, Iraq in about 2000 B. C.

One of the earliest mathematical writings is a Babylonian tablet from the Yale Babylonian Collection ( YBC 7289 ), which gives a sexagesimal numerical approximation of, the length of the diagonal in a unit square.

The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad ( 2334-2279 BC ), dating back to the 23rd century BC.

The oldest significant astronomical text that we possess is Tablet 63 of ' Enūma Anu Enlil ', the Venus tablet of Ammi-saduqa, which lists the first and last visible risings of Venus over a period of about 21 years and is the earliest evidence that the phenomena of a planet were recognized as periodic.

The earliest Etruscan abecedarium, the Marsiliana d ' Albegna ( near Grosseto ) tablet which dates to c. 700 BC, lists 26 letters corresponding to contemporary forms of the Greek alphabet which retained san and qoppa but which had not yet developed omega.

The earliest known recipes date from approximately 1600 BC and come from an Akkadian tablet from southern Babylonia.

Part of the last tablets, namely of tablet VI and VII appear to be written in an accentual metre, similar to the Saturnian metre that is encountered in the earliest Latin poetry.

In old-Croatian, this earliest geographical term appeared at least from 10th century within the Glagolitic inscriptions in Chakavian dialect, e. g. in Baška tablet about 1105, and also in some subsequent Glagolitic texts as krayna ( pronouncing ' kraüna ') in the original medieval meaning of inlands or mainlands.

The earliest known record of a contract of suretyship is a Mesopotamian tablet written around 2750 BC.

* Stele, earliest stone tablet inscriptions

* Clay tablet, one of the earliest known writing mediums

Cicero states that from the earliest period down to the pontificate of Publius Mucius Scaevola ( c. 132 BCE ), it was usual for the pontifex maximus to record on a white tablet ( album ), which was exhibited in an open place at his house, so that the people might read it, first, the name of the consuls and other magistrates, and then the noteworthy events that had occurred during the year ( per singulos dies, as Servius says ).

The earliest surviving exemplar of a boxwood writing tablet with an ivory hinge was among the finds recovered from the 14th c. BCE Uluburun Shipwreck near Kaş in Turkey in 1986.