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. 802, 803, 805, 848, and 942), only. The vast majority of Septuagint manuscripts are late-antiquity and medieval manuscript versions of the Christian Greek Old Testament tradition.^{[1][2][3][4][5]: 122–170}

There are currently over 2,000 classified manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament.^[6]

The first list of manuscripts was presented by Holmes and Parsons, of which their edition ends with a full list of manuscripts known to them. It enumerates 311 codes (marked with Roman numerals I–XIII and Arab 14–311), which 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 manuscripts according to the classification of Alfred Rahlfs —a list of all known manuscripts proposed by Alfred Rahlfs based on census of Holmes and Parsons.

The table of manuscripts is divided into ten parts:

• Part I: A–Z (specific late antiquity codices in majuscule script).
• Part II: 13–311 (medieval manuscripts, numbering given by Holmes and Parsons)
• Part III: 312–800 (medieval manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament without the Psalms)
• Part IV: 801–1000 (antiquity small fragments of the Torah and late antiquity small fragments of the Greek Old Testament without the Psalms)
• Part V: 1001–1400 (psalms from the twelfth century)
• Part VI: 1401–2000 (medieval fragments psalms uncertain dating younger)
• Part VII: 2001–3000 (medieval small fragments psalter [to the eighth century] BCE)
• Part VIII: 3001–5000 (medieval manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament without the Psalms)
• Part IX: 5001–7000 (medieval small fragments of the Greek Old Testament without the Psalms)
• Part X: 7001–xxxx (medieval psalter fragments )

• 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 in full. They are abbreviated from their Latin names which can be seen in the article Books of the Vulgate. Example: Book of Wisdom or, Wisdom of Solomon, is abbreviated as Sap.

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