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Acts
Papyrus of the Acts, found at Oxyrrhynchus, Egypt. 3rd century AD..

Creation
The Seven Tablets of Creation, the story of the world`s origin from Babylon. The copies which have been preserved to us are Assyrian, dating from the 7th century B.C.. They describe (1) the primeval ocean-mass, (2) rebellion of Tiamat, the sea-goddess, (3) the gods` council of war, (4) Marduk - Ashur in Assyria - elected champion of the gods, fights and slays Tiamat, (5) creation of the stars, (6) creation of man, (7) praise of the gods: and conclude with commendation of the poem.

Creation
An account of the Creation story in cuneiform script, about 600 BC..

Dead Sea
Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem, where the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed..

Deluge Tablet
Babylonian deluge tablet. (British Museum). This tells the Sumerian Story of the Flood. The adventures of Gilgamesh, a legendary king of Erech, are related on a series of twelve tablets discovered at Nineveh.. On the eleventh tablet, shown, is inscribed what is generally known as the Babylonian account of the Deluge. This story is told by Uta-napishtim, who, instructed to build an ark, was rescued with his family from the great flood.

Isaiah
Scroll of the Book of Isaiah.(Luke 4.17-18).

St Mark
Papyrus fragment of Gospel of St Mark. 3rd century AD..

Rylands
Dating back to AD 150 this is possibly the earliest known fragment of the New Testament and may have come from the site of the ruined city of Oxyrhynchus. It forms part of the collection at the John Rylands Library, Manchester.. It is believed to be a portion of St John`s Gospel, Chapter xviii, verses 31-33 and 37-38.

Commentary on Habakkuk
Commentary on Habakkuk, written on a scroll at Qumran. One of the Dead Sea Scrolls..

Sinaiticus
The Lord`s Prayer (Luke xi, 2-4) from the Codex Sinaiticus. In the margin, the petition `and deliver us from evil` originally omitted, was inserted by a corrector..

Sinaiticus
The Codex Sinaiticus..

Sinaiticus
The last page of the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the earliest manuscripts of the Greek Bible. 4th century AD..

Syriac
Kept in St. Catherine`s Monastery on Mount Sinai, this Syriac version of the Gospels dates to the 4th century..

Vulgate
This manuscript once handled by Bede is an eighth century single leaf of a sister-codex to the Amiatinus. It contains passages from Kings in the Latin Vulgate version..

Wycliffe
John Wycliffe helped produced the first complete Bible in English. Here we see a portion from The Earlier Version, completed in 1382..

Alexandrian
Alexandrian Manuscript: portion with Jude v25, showing the typical way a book is ended in this MS..

Apocrypha
Title page of the Apocrypha from Cranmer`s Bible, printed in 1540..

Bezae
Codex Bezae Manuscript, with the autograph of Beza. From Luke 6.4.

Claromontanus
Codex Claromontanus Manuscript.

Palimpsest
Palimpsest Manuscript- this example from Codex Ephraemi has new writing on top of John 4.51-53.

Printed
Specimen from Plantin`s celebrated Polyglot Bible, Antwerpt 1555. From right to left, top to bottom: Hebrew, Latin translation of Hebrew, Latin translation of Greek, Greek Septuagint..

Printed
Erasmus` paraphrase of the New Testament printed by Froben at Basle in 1530(?).

Printed
Specimens from the English translation of the Pentateuch printed in 1530, being the first portion of the Old Testament ever printed in English..

Printed
Specimen from the beginning of Tyndale`s first translation of the New Testament, the first portion of the Bible ever printed in English, printed at Cologne, 1525.