Sentence: The first is the most ancient and curious it is copied from the Durham Book, or book of St. Cuthbert, now preserved among the Cottonian manuscripts in the British museum, and is believed to have been executed as early as the seventh century, by the hands of Eadfreid, afterward bishop of Lindisfarne, who died in 721.
Combination: the seventh century (root: century, modifier: seventh)
Property: ancient
Property type: emergent