The earliest surviving manuscripts of the Septuagint (abbreviated as LXX meaning 70), an ancient (first centuries BCE) translation of the ancient Hebrew Torah into Koine Greek, include three 2nd century BCE fragments from the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy (Rahlfs nos. 801, 819, and 957) and five 1st century BCE fragments of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy (Rahlfs nos. 802, 803, 805, 848, and 942), only. The vast majority of Septuagint manuscripts are late-antiquity and medieval manuscript versions of the Christian Greek Old Testament tradition.

Classification

There are currently over 2,000 classified manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament. The first list of manuscripts was presented by Holmes and Parsons, of which their edition ends with a full list of manuscripts known to them. It enumerates 311 codes (marked with Roman numerals I–XIII and Arab 14–311), which 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. The list of manuscripts according to the classification of Alfred Rahlfs —a list of all known manuscripts proposed by Alfred Rahlfs based on census of Holmes and Parsons.

Division in classification by Rahlfs

The table of manuscripts is divided into ten parts:

Abbreviations

Acronyms

EBE - National Library of Greece

Latin terms

List of manuscripts

List taken from Manuscripts of the Septuagint, published by Logos.

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