Reply to: Oldest Book you own!

[Bagpuss]

I have a Haines Manual for a Mk2 Cortina does that count?

[Board Game Geek]

We've got a 400 million year old plate.

As in something scultped from 400 million year old rock.

It's a black stone with lots of little white bits of fossils in it.

[Lockhouse]

I just had a look on eBay, you can join the club for not too much cash.

I shall look later, so I too can look educated and intellectual!

[Scary]

I'm amazed so many people have 400 year old books. Dead impressed.

I just had a look on eBay, you can join the club for not too much cash.

[Advocate]

I'm amazed so many people have 400 year old books. Dead impressed.

I've got hundreds of books, most of 'em over a year old!

[xoggoth]

I also have a 2000 year old coin. That's not worth a lot either! Doh!

[Lockhouse]

I'm amazed so many people have 400 year old books. Dead impressed.

[MarillionFan]

To be fair, I do have one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Cost me an absolute arm and a leg. In ancient Hebrew.

When I had it translated, the title was 'When Noah met Sally'.

No idea what it's about?

[SantaClaus]

I got the original bible, you know the one handed to Moses on tablets of stone.

[xoggoth]

This thread got me in a bit of a panic. Thought I might have thrown them away by accident in last big clearout. Anyway, found em.

1 The whole booke of psalmes 1625 (or 1635, unclear)

2 Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae. The workes of that great monarch and glorious martyr King Charles the 1st - About 1650

3 Cary's new itinerary or an accurate delineation of the great roads, both direct and cross throughout England and Wales 1819

[HairyArsedBloke]

I have a copy of Euclid's Elements. 2300 years old, with the additional advantage that the content is true.

[expat]

I own a copy of the Bible. That's quite old, 2000 yrs at least I think.

I have a copy of Euclid's Elements. 2300 years old, with the additional advantage that the content is true.

[OwlHoot]

Got a small book of Psalms 1624, some bit later thing in praise of Charles II and an early Victorian travel book. Can't give any details as up in attic somewhere.

I have a copy of Eikon Basilike somewhere too. Written by Charles 1, It was a best-seller in its day (the 1640s), but I imagine is fairly boring by modern standards.

As I had it rebound in vellum, it should last a good few hundred years more.

[NickFitz]

Got to be a bible. I mean it was written 2000 years ago.

Echo...

I own a copy of the Bible. That's quite old, 2000 yrs at least I think.

Also, it wasn't written in English.

And it wasn't written 2000 years ago.

[BolshieBastard]

Got to be a bible. I mean it was written 2000 years ago.