Septuagint manuscripts


The Septuagint, the ancient Alexandrian translation of Jewish scriptures into Koine Greek exists in various manuscript versions.

List of Septuagint manuscripts

The list of Septuagint manuscripts according to the classification of Alfred Rahlfs - a list of all known Septuagint manuscripts proposed by Alfred Rahlfs based on census of Holmes and Parsons.
The first list of Septuagint manuscripts was presented by Holmes and Parsons. Their edition ends with a full list of manuscripts known to them set out in the Annexes. It enumerates 311 codes, of which the codes are designated by their siglum I-XIII, 23, 27, 39, 43, 156, 188, 190, 258, 262.
The codes marked with Roman numerals signify given letters from A to Z.
There are currently over 2000 classified manuscripts of the Septuagint.

Division in classification by Rahlfs

The table of Septuagint manuscripts is divided into ten parts:
State according to a document dated December 2012.

Part I: A-Z

Part II: 13-311

Part III: 312-800

312-500

501-600

601-700

701-800

Part IV: 801-1000

801-900

901-1000

Part V: 1001-1400

1001-1100

1101-1200

1201-1300

1301-1400

Part VI: 1401-2000

1401-1500

1501-1600

1601-1700

1701-1800

1801-1900

1901-2000

Part VII: 2001-3000

Part VIII: 3001-5000

Part X: 7001-xxxx