Like most biblical books, there are differences between the earliest surviving manuscripts of Acts.

Salieri's earliest surviving work is a Mass in C major.

The oldest part of the present semi-ruin constitutes one of the earliest surviving stone castles in mainland Scotland.

The earliest surviving temple of Hariharalaya is Preah Ko ; the others are Bakong and Lolei.

The earliest surviving fragments from codices come from Egypt and are variously dated ( always tentatively ) towards the end of the 1st century or in the first half of the 2nd.

The Sumerians produced the earliest surviving written codes.

The earliest surviving recordings of this are in the Ma Wang Dui texts and Huang Di Nei Jing.

One of his earliest surviving works, under the guidance of his anatomy teacher, Dimitrie Gerota, is a masterfully rendered écorché ( statue of a man with skin removed to reveal the muscles underneath ) which was exhibited at the Romanian Athenaeum in 1903.

The Spring and Autumn Annals, the official chronicle of the State of Lu covering the period from 722 BCE to 481 BCE, is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical texts to be arranged on annalistic principles.

* Optics is the earliest surviving Greek treatise on perspective.

The earliest surviving European examples are the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil's Aeneid, which follow both the style and subject matter of Homer.

The earliest surviving home in which Poe lived is in Baltimore, preserved as the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum.

This is the earliest surviving source to mention any Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

The earliest surviving description of the Euclidean algorithm is in Euclid's Elements ( c. 300 BC ), making it one of the oldest numerical algorithms still in common use.

The second experimental film, Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince on October 14, 1888 in Roundhay, Leeds, England, is now known as the earliest surviving motion picture.

The earliest surviving example of this technique is Smith's The House That Jack Built, made before September 1901.

His pleograph film camera has been patented already before the Lumière brothers ' invention and he is credited as the author of the earliest surviving Polish documentary titled Ślizgawka w Łazienkach ( Skating-rink in the Royal Baths ), as well as the first short narrative films Powrót birbanta ( Rake's return home ) and Przygoda dorożkarza ( Cabman's Adventure ), both created in 1902.

The earliest surviving feature film, the Antoś pierwszy raz w Warszawie ( Antoś for the First Time in Warsaw ) was made in 1908 by Antoni Fertner.

His principal book, the Kitab al-Muwatta, is one of the earliest surviving books on hadith and fiqh.

This led to the publication of his earliest surviving tract, which criticised the English church's suppression of the Puritan clergy.

Probably the earliest surviving New Testament manuscript, Rylands Library Papyrus P52 is a Greek papyrus fragment discovered in Egypt in 1920 ( now at the John Rylands Library, Manchester ).

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 surviving documentary evidence for the use of the hand cannon, considered the oldest type of portable firearm and a forerunner of the handgun, are from several Arabic manuscripts dated to the 14th century.

At Mrs. Wallington's school, she was taught by the evangelical Maria Lewis — to whom her earliest surviving letters are addressed.

The earliest surviving Stoic work, the Hymn to Zeus of Cleanthes, though not explicitly referencing Heraclitus, adopts what appears to be the Heraclitean logos modified.

The earliest known record of argot was in a 1628 document.

The earliest known member of the house, Esiko, Count of Ballenstedt, first appears in a document of 1036, and is assumed to have been a grandson ( through his mother ) of Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark.

The earliest mention of the term balalaika dates back to an AD 1688 Russian document.

Perhaps the earliest prototype for a law of government, this document itself has not yet been discovered ; however it is known that it allowed some rights to his citizens.

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 earliest Chinese document mentioning a crossbow is in scripts from the 4th – 3rd century BC attributed to the followers of Mozi.

The earliest document mentioning a Barnabas gospel which is generally agreed to correspond with the one found in the two known manuscripts is reported to be contained in Morisco manuscript BNM MS 9653 in Madrid, written about 1634 by Ibrahim al-Taybili in Tunisia.

*: 1951: Philip Bagley conducted the earliest experiment in computerized document retrieval in a master thesis at MIT.

The earliest Laos legal document ( and the earliest sociological evidence about the existence of the Lao people ) is known as " the laws of Khun Borom " ( also spelled " Khun Bulom "), still preserved in manuscript form .< ref >

The next earliest account of Luke is in the Anti-Marcionite Prologue to the Gospel of Luke, a document once thought to date to the 2nd century, but which has more recently been dated to the later 4th century.

The year 1158 is assumed to be the foundation date, which is only the earliest date the city is mentioned in a document.

1780 BC ), which is one of the earliest sets of laws found and one of the best preserved examples of this type of document from ancient Mesopotamia.

Nazara ( Ναζαρά ) might be the earliest form of the name in Greek, going back to the putative Q document.

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 ).".

An almost independent commune was created around 1140 ; a treaty between Parma and Piacenza of 1149 is the earliest document of a comune headed by consuls.

The short document known as the Teaching of the Apostles or Didache, which may be the earliest Christian document outside of the New Testament to speak of the Eucharist, says, " Let no one eat or drink of the Eucharist with you except those who have been baptized in the Name of the Lord ," for it was in reference to this that the Lord said, " Do not give that which is holy to dogs.

However, the earliest written document mentioning a tarot-like card set occurs as early as 1227, and it says that " Italian children are instructed in the knowledge of the virtues via sheets ( cards ) denominated carticellas ".

* An incomplete marriage contract, dated to October 6 of this year, is the earliest dated document in the Cairo Geniza.

600, the earliest document which survives in sustained Old English prose ; however, the witan was certainly in existence long before this time.

He also investigated the use of lenses as projectors and should be credited as the earliest inventor, developer and designer of the Magic Lantern rather than German scholar Athanasius Kircher who merely used much of Huygens research ( often quite inaccurately ) to document and publish on the subject.

It is considered the earliest authentic Christian document outside of the New Testament.

Imhotep is also believed to have founded Egyptian medicine, being the author of the world's earliest known medical document, the Edwin Smith Papyrus.

The earliest known document in the Gujarātī script is a handwritten manuscript dating from 1592, and the script first appeared in print in a 1797 advertisement.