The

Septuagint The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond th ...

(LXX), the ancient (first centuries BC) Alexandrian translation of Jewish scriptures into

Koine Greek Koine Greek (; Koine el, ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, hē koinè diálektos, the common dialect; ), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-reg ...

exists in various manuscript versions.

List of Septuagint manuscripts

There are currently over 2000 classified manuscripts of the Septuagint. 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 (marked with Roman numerals I-XIII and Arab 14-311), of which the codes are designated by their

siglum Scribal abbreviations or sigla ( singular: siglum) are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse. In modern manuscript editing (substantive and mechani ...

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 Septuagint manuscripts according to the classification of

Alfred Rahlfs Alfred Rahlfs (; ; 29 May 1865 – 8 April 1935) was a German Biblical scholar. He was a member of the history of religions school. He is known for his edition of the Septuagint published in 1935. Biography He was born in Linden near Hanover, an ...

- a list of all known Septuagint manuscripts proposed by Alfred Rahlfs based on census of Holmes and Parsons.

Division in classification by Rahlfs

The table of Septuagint manuscripts is divided into ten parts: * Part I: A-Z (selected codes in majuscule). * Part II: 13-311 (numbering given by Holmes and Parsons) * Part III: 312-800 (manuscripts of the Old Testament, with the exception of the Psalms) * Part IV: 801-1000 (small fragments of the Old Testament, with the exception of the Psalms) * Part V: 1001-1400 (psalms from the twelfth century) * Part VI: 1401-2000 (psalms uncertain dating younger) * Part VII: 2001-3000 (small fragments psalter o the eighth century * Part VIII: 3001-5000 (manuscripts of the Old Testament, with the exception of the Psalms) * Part IX: 5001-7000 (small fragments of the Old Testament, with the exception of the Psalms) * Part X: 7001-xxxx (psalms)

Abbreviations

* Pent. –

Pentateuch The Torah (; hbo, ''Tōrā'', "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. In that sense, Torah means the sa ...

(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 as full words. They have been abbreviated from their Latin names and can be consulted at the article

Books of the Vulgate These are the books of the Vulgate along with the names and numbers given them in the Douay–Rheims Bible and King James Bible. There are 76 books in the Clementine edition of the Latin Vulgate, 46 in the Old Testament, 27 in the New Testament, ...

. Example:

Book of Wisdom The Book of Wisdom, or the Wisdom of Solomon, is a Jewish work written in Greek and most likely composed in Alexandria, Egypt. Generally dated to the mid-first century BCE, the central theme of the work is "wisdom" itself, appearing under two p ...

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 (biblical commentary) A catena (from Latin ''catena'', a chain) is a form of biblical commentary, verse by verse, made up entirely of excerpts from earlier Biblical commentators, each introduced with the name of the author, and with such minor adjustments of words to al ...

. * ''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 The Penitential Psalms or Psalms of Confession, so named in Cassiodorus's commentary of the 6th century AD, are the Psalms 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142 (6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, and 143 in the Hebrew numbering). *Psalm 6 – Domine, ne ...

* ''sine'' – without

List of manuscripts

List taken from ''Manuscripts of the Septuagint'', published b
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Manuscripts of the Septuagint
Lexham Press, 2020

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

References

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