The earliest extant reference to the first foliation of the Nowell Codex was made sometime between 1628 and 1650 by Franciscus Junius ( the younger ).

The earlier date, first proposed in modern times by John Robinson in a closely argued chapter of " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ), relies on the book's internal evidence, given that no external testimony exists earlier than that of Irenaeus, noted above, and the earliest extant manuscript evidence of Revelation ( P98 ) is likewise dated no earlier than the late 2nd century.

Urukagina ( reigned c. 2380 BC – 2360 BC, short chronology ) had an early code that has not survived ; a later king, Ur-Nammu, left the earliest extant written law-system, the Code of Ur-Nammu ( c. 2100-2050 BC ), which prescribed a formal system of penalties for specific cases in 57 articles.

The first known reference to one was by Johann Speth in 1693 and the earliest such extant signed and dated clavichord was built in 1716 by Johann Michael Heinitz.

Perhaps the earliest extant primary source referencing Easter is a mid-2nd century Paschal homily attributed to Melito of Sardis, which characterizes the celebration as a well-established one.

The author identifies himself as " James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ ", with " the earliest extant manuscripts of James usually dated to mid-to-late third century.

One of his earliest extant plays, Medea, includes a speech that he seems to have written in defence of himself as an intellectual ahead of his time, though he has put it in the mouth of the play's heroine:

He seems not to have used it in his early plays at all, The Trojan Women being the earliest appearance of it in an extant play-it's symptomatic of a curious archaizing tendency evident in his later works.

The earliest extant version of this trilemma appears in the writings of the skeptic Sextus Empiricus.

The earliest extant samples of connected ( north ) Estonian are the so-called Kullamaa prayers dating from 1524 and 1528.

He figures in the earliest extant cuneiform inscriptions throughout the region and was prominent from the third millennium down to Hellenistic times.

The earliest extant Chinese transverse flute is a chi ( 篪 ) flute discovered in the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng at the Suizhou site, Hubei province, China.

Derived from Greek oikoumenikos (), " ecumenical " means " worldwide " but generally is assumed to be limited to the Roman Empire in this context as in Augustus ' claim to be ruler of the oikoumene / world ; the earliest extant uses of the term for a council are Eusebius ' Life of Constantine 3. 6 around 338, which states "" ( he convoked an Ecumenical Council ); Athanasius ' Ad Afros Epistola Synodica in 369 ;< ref >

According to, the Śulba Sūtras contain " the earliest extant verbal expression of the Pythagorean Theorem in the world, although it had already been known to the Old Babylonians.

The earliest extant use of gospel to denote a particular genre of writing dates to the 2nd century.

For this reason, Gardnerian Wicca is usually considered to be the earliest extant tradition of Wicca, from which most subsequent Wiccan traditions are derived.

Some of his earliest extant writings, such as The Ox ( 1510 ) and The Labyrinth ( 1516 ), attacked the mercenary system using allegory and satire.

However, the earliest extant arguments that the world of experience is grounded in the mental derive from India and Greece.

Thus, for example, around 60 manuscripts are extant containing Welsh-language versions of the Historia, the earliest of which were created in the 13th century ; the old notion that some of these Welsh versions actually underlie Geoffrey's Historia, advanced by antiquarians such as the 18th-century Lewis Morris, has long since been discounted in academic circles.

In the earliest extant manuscripts it is referred to as Liber episcopalis in quo continentur acta beatorum pontificum Urbis Romae, and later the Gesta or Chronica pontificum.

The earliest extant mandolin was built in 1744 by Gaetano Vinaccia.

Together with the Peshitta and Codex Alexandrinus, these are the earliest extant Christian Bibles.

In 1676 Huang Zongxi's son, Huang Baijia, who learned martial arts from Wang Zhengnan, compiled the earliest extant manual of internal martial arts, the Nèijiā quánfǎ.

Dactylic hexameter was the traditional meter of Greek epic poetry, the earliest extant examples of which are the works of Homer and Hesiod.

David Diringer noted that " the first mention of Egyptian documents written on leather goes back to the Fourth Dynasty ( c. 2550-2450 BCE ), but the earliest of such documents extant are: a fragmentary roll of leather of the Sixth Dynasty ( c. twenty-fourth century BCE ), unrolled by Dr. H. Ibscher, and preserved in the Cairo Museum ; a roll of the Twelfth Dynasty ( c. 1990-1777 BCE ) now in Berlin ; the mathematical text now in the British Museum ( MS. 10250 ); and a document of the reign of Ramses II ( early thirtheenth century BCE ).".

Modern usage uses a ' ten-foot ' pole, but the earliest instances in print involve a forty-foot pole, which is improbably long for operating a barge.

( In Hubbard's earliest publications on the subject, engrams were variously referred to as " Norns ", " Impediments ," and " comanomes " before " engram " was adapted from its existing usage at the suggestion of Joseph Winter.

The earliest known usage in print of the English term deist is 1621,

The earliest known usage of huanghou was in the Han Dynasty.

The grammatical description in the earliest books was somewhat vague, so a consensus on usage ( influenced by Zamenhof's answers to some questions ) developed over time within boundaries set by the initial outline ( Auld 1988 ).

The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.

The earliest cited English usage in connection with marital status is from a manuscript of c. 1200, when Mary ( mother of Jesus ) is described as “ handfast ( to ) a good man called Joseph ”.

The earliest known usage of nixtamalization was in what is present-day southern Mexico and Guatemala around 1500 – 1200 BC.

The coining of the term " joystick " may actually be credited to Loraine, as his is the earliest known usage of the term, although he most certainly did not invent the device.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed., 1989 ) kludge entry cites one source for this word's earliest recorded usage, definition, and etymology: Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 " How to Design a Kludge " article, which appeared in the American computer magazine Datamation.

The Oxford English Dictionary records its earliest known English-language usage of brainwashing in an article by Edward Hunter in New Leader published on 7 October 1950.

The earliest recorded usage of the phrase is dated 1660.

Along with McCartney's usage, some of the earliest Rickenbacker bass players were Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, John Entwistle of The Who, and Peter Quaife of The Kinks.

Modern usage derives primarily from one of the earliest computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms, collecting the treasures found there.

A variety of injection systems have existed since the earliest usage of the internal combustion engine.

Seth Wheeler of Albany, New York, obtained the earliest United States patents for toilet paper and dispensers, the types of which eventually were in common usage in that country, in 1883.

In fact, the name " Al-Urdun " ( Jordan ) was used on Umayyad post-reform copper coins beginning in the early 8th century and represent the earliest official usage of the name for the modern state.

Deep-fried chips ( slices or pieces of potato ) as a dish may have first appeared in Britain in about the same period: the Oxford English Dictionary notes as its earliest usage of " chips " in this sense the mention in Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( published in 1859 ): " Husky chips of potatoes, fried with some reluctant drops of oil ".

The earliest citation of this usage in the 1972 Oxford English Dictionary, c 1230, refers to the London street known as Gropecunt Lane.

The earliest recorded usage in English of the word edamame is in 1951 in the journal Folklore Studies.

An early example of the usage of hydraulic wheel, probably the earliest in Europe, is the Perachora wheel ( 3rd c. BC ).

The earliest known such usage in English was John Gower's in Confessio amantis ( 1390 ):

The earliest known recorded usage of the term dates to an 1808 short story describing a spread of " fire-cakes and dough-nuts.

Its earliest known usage on the Internet may have been on the Usenet newsgroup talk. bizarre.