Dr. Elisabetta Magnanti and Dr. Mark Faulkner with the Trinity copy of Bede's Ecclesiastical History in the Library of Trinity College Dublin. Credit: Trinity College Dublin Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have uncovered an early 9th century manuscript in Rome containing one of the oldest surviving versions of the earliest known poem written in English. The manuscript, now housed in the National Central Library of Rome, includes Caedmon's Hymn , a short Old English poem believed to have