Show earliest bible mss ass found in rubbish london what was described officially is as the oldest manuscript of any part of the bible in tny any language was found in an old collection of papyri in the ryland library at manchester it consists of part of the greek manuscript of the gospel of st john written years before the codex SIn altIcus the document was lost for centuries in a rubbish heap of egyptian material in tho the library it probably was written before the ink of the original dried in the early part of the second century said hald dr henry guppy librarian or even een in the last part of the V first arst century hitherto scholars thought st johns gospel was one of the last written |