What is the oldest original document or book in its original form today, and please give a source.?

Question

I had heard it is the recently found Book of Judas, circa AD 30. I don't mean wall painting or stone tablet or sarcphagus etching etc. I mean a written document, like a paper book or papyrus leaf writing.

Answer 1

It may be an Etruscan manuscript, 6 pages of 24 karat gold, supposedly more than 2,500 years old.

Answer 2

Hi, I think I understand your question. The oldest printed book in the world is the Diamond Sutra in the British Museum
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/landmarks/diamondsutra.html
This book was printed by a wood-block method in 868 (it has a publication date on it.)
One of the oldest written manuscript is the Herculaneum papyri, a series of scroll books buried in the famous eruption of Vesuvius in 79 (so all the scrolls must be older than that date.
The oldest biblical manuscripts are the Dead Sea Scrolls. The one scroll that has been dated goes back to the very beginning of the common era (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls
There was a very interesting program on Nova (the PBS science show) that examined the early books of the world. Here is there list. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/manuscripts.html
Have fun.

Answer 3

The Guttenberg bible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttenberg