There are currently over 2,000 classified manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament. The first list of manuscripts was presented by theologians Arthur Holmes and Jacob Parsons, of which their edition (five volumes between 1798 and 1827) ends with a full list of manuscripts known to them. It enumerates 311 codes (marked with Roman numerals I–XIII and Arabic numerals 14–311), which are designated by their
siglum I–XIII, 23, 27, 39, 43, 156, 188, 190, 258, 262. The codices marked with Roman numerals signify given letters from A to Z. The current list of Septuagint manuscripts is according to the classification of biblical scholar
Alfred Rahlfs, this being a list of all known manuscripts proposed by Alfred Rahlfs based on the census of Holmes and Parsons.
Division in classification by Rahlfs The table of manuscripts is divided into ten parts: • Part I: A–Z (specific late antiquity codices in majuscule script). • Part II: 13–311 (medieval manuscripts, numbering given by Holmes and Parsons) • Part III: 312–800 (medieval manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament without the Psalms) • Part IV: 801–1000 (antiquity small fragments of the Torah and late antiquity small fragments of the Greek Old Testament without the Psalms) • Part V: 1001–1400 (psalms from the twelfth century) • Part VI: 1401–2000 (medieval fragments psalms uncertain dating younger) • Part VII: 2001–3000 (medieval small fragments psalter [to the eighth century]) • Part VIII: 3001–5000 (medieval manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament without the Psalms) • Part IX: 5001–7000 (medieval small fragments of the Greek Old Testament without the Psalms) • Part X: 7001–xxxx (medieval psalter fragments )
Abbreviations • Pent. –
Pentateuch (Genesis – Deuteronomy) • Hept. – Heptateuch (Genesis – Judges) • Oct. – Octateuch (ἡ ὀκτάτευχος = Genesis – Ruth) • IV Proph. – Four Major Prophets books. • XII Proph. – Twelve Minor Prophets books. • Most book names are not written in full. They are abbreviated from their Latin names which can be seen in the article
Books of the Vulgate. Example:
Book of Wisdom or, Wisdom of Solomon, is abbreviated as Sap.
Acronyms EBE - National Library of Greece
Latin terms •
aliquot – some •
catenae,
catenarum – chain, chains (abbreviated as "cat.").
Catena. •
ecloge – safeguard page •
excerpta – items •
graduales –
Songs of Ascents (Ps 119-133 by the numbering in the LXX) •
inter alia – among others •
lacunae – missing words/lines/pages •
poenitentiales –
Penitential Psalms •
sine – without == List of manuscripts ==