The Septuagint (LXX), the ancient (first centuries BC) Alexandrian translation of Jewish scriptures into Koine Greek exists in various manuscript versions.
List of Septuagint manuscripts
There are currently over 2,000 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 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—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 [to 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 (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. 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
List taken from Manuscripts of the Septuagint, published by Logos.