Show earliest earlie st bible mss ass found in rubbish london what was described officially as the oldest manuscript of any part of the bible in any icing tinge was found in an old collection of papyri in tile the ryland library at manchester it consists of part of the greek manuscript of the gospel of st john written years before the codex codes Sin alticus the document was lost tor for centuries in a rubbish heap of egyptian material in the library it probably was written before the ink of the original dried in the early part of the second century sald said dr henry glenry cuppy librarian or even in the last part of tile the first century hitherto scholars thought st johns gospel was one of the last written |