Written down by a single monk/scribe in 970 -- more than a millennium ago

 The Exeter Book (circa

970 ) contains old English

poems and riddles ;

it was given in the 11th Century to the

Exeter Cathedral, U.K. 

by its first Bishop Leofric

(who died 1072).

local website celebrating it =

theexeterbook.exeter.ac.uk

University of Exeter,

U.K.

[ parchment was made

from different animal skins ]