Septuagint_manuscripts

Septuagint manuscripts

Septuagint manuscripts

Manuscripts of the Septuagint translation


The Septuagint (LXX), the ancient (first centuries BC) Alexandrian translation of Jewish scriptures into Koine Greek exists in various manuscript versions.[1][2][3][4][5]:122–170

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. The arrow points at the tetragrammaton in paleo-Hebrew script.

List of Septuagint manuscripts

There are currently over 2,000 classified manuscripts of the Septuagint.[6]

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.[5]:122

The codes marked with Roman numerals signify given letters from A to Z.[5]:122–123

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
  • gradualesSongs of Ascents (Ps 119-133 by the numbering in the LXX)
  • inter alia – among others
  • lacunae – missing words/lines/pages
  • poenitentialesPenitential Psalms
  • sine – without

List of manuscripts

List taken from Manuscripts of the Septuagint, published by Logos.[7]

Part I: A–Z

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Part II: 13–311

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Part III: 312–800

312–500

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501–600

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601–700

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701–800

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Part IV: 801–1000

801–900

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901–1000

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Part V: 1001–1400

1001–1100

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1101–1200

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1201–1300

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1301–1400

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Part VI: 1401–2000

1401–1500

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1501–1600

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1601–1700

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1701–1800

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1801–1900

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1901–2000

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Part VII: 2001–3000

More information Symbol, Name ...

Part VIII: 3001-5000

More information Symbol, Name ...

Part X: 7001–xxxx

More information Symbol, Name ...

See also


References

  1. Sidney Jellicoe, The Septuagint and modern study, 1968, pp. 175, Ch. VII: "For the manuscripts the familiar threefold classification into (1) Uncials, (2) Cursives, and (3) Papyri and Fragments has been adopted, although (see p. 176, n. 1, infra) it is not entirely"
  2. Wolfgang Kraus, R. Glenn Wooden, Septuagint research: issues and challenges, 2006
  3. Natalio Fernández Marcos, The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Version of the Bible, 2000, Ch. 15
  4. Cécile Dogniez, Bibliography of the Septuagint, 1995 [This volume is a successor to "A Classified Bibliography of the Septuagint (Brill, Leiden 1973), by S.P. Brock, C. T. Fritsch and S. Jellicoe, for the literature on the Septuagint published between 1970 and 1993."
  5. Swete, Henry Barclay; Thackeray, Henry St. John (1900). "Part I chapter V. Manuscripts of the Septuagint". An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek: With an Appendix. Cambridge, University Press.
  6. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. "Herzlich willkommen auf den Seiten des Göttinger Septuaginta-Unternehmens!" (in German). adw-goe.de. Archived from the original on 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
  7. both believed to form an entity as Henry Barclay Swete states in "An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek. Additional Notes": "(...) these two codices originally formed portions of a complete copy of the Greek Old Testament" http://biblehub.com/library/swete/an_introduction_to_the_old_testament_in_greek_additional_notes/chapter_v_manuscripts_of_the.htm]
  8. Paschou, Christine (1999). "Le Codex Atheniensis 2641 et le Patrice Samonas". Byzantion. 69 (2): 366–395. JSTOR 44172498.
  9. Emmel, Stephen (1996). "Greek Biblical Papyri in the Beinecke Library". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 112: 289–294. JSTOR 20189819.
  10. "The Yale Genesis". 3 February 2018.

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