[3] Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi (1742–1831) published a list of 731 manuscripts.
[4] The main manuscript discoveries in modern times are those of the Cairo Geniza (c. 1890) and the Dead Sea/Qumran Caves Scrolls (1947).
[5][6] There are more than 200 biblical manuscripts among the Dead Sea/Qumran Caves Scrolls, some of them were written in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
The Leningrad/Petrograd codex is the manuscript upon which the Old Testament of most modern English translations of the Bible are based.
The oldest complete Torah scroll still in use has been carbon-dated to around 1250 and is owned by the Jewish community of the northern Italian town of Biella.