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Summary

Frontispiece, Diamond Sutra from Cave 17, Dunhuang, ink on paper.

A page from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Sutra" class="extiw" title="en:Diamond Sutra">Diamond Sutra</a>, printed in the 9th year of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Yizong_of_Tang" class="extiw" title="en:Emperor Yizong of Tang">Xiantong Era</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="extiw" title="en:Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a>, i.e. 868 CE. Currently located in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" class="extiw" title="en:British Library">British Library</a>, London.

According to the British Library, it is “the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book”.

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current	00:24, 22 December 2016		4,917 × 3,438 (10.38 MB)	127.0.0.1 (talk)	Frontispiece, Diamond Sutra from Cave 17, Dunhuang, ink on paper. <p>A page from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Sutra" class="extiw" title="en:Diamond Sutra">Diamond Sutra</a>, printed in the 9th year of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Yizong_of_Tang" class="extiw" title="en:Emperor Yizong of Tang">Xiantong Era</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="extiw" title="en:Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a>, i.e. 868 CE. Currently located in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" class="extiw" title="en:British Library">British Library</a>, London. </p> According to the British Library, it is “the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book”.