Sunday, July 19, 2015

The Earliest Complete Survival of a Dated Printed Book


The Mogao Caves in the Dunhuang Oasis

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

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