Septuagint manuscripts

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.

[5]: 122 The codices marked with Roman numerals signify given letters from A to Z.

[5]: 122-123  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.

The table of manuscripts is divided into ten parts: EBE - National Library of Greece List taken from Manuscripts of the Septuagint, published by Logos.

Lower part of col. 18 (according to the reconstruction by E. Tov) of the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever containing verses from Habakkuk (c. 50 BCE - 50 CE). The arrow points at the tetragrammaton in paleo-Hebrew script.