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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- PART I THE HISTORY OF THE GREEK OLD TESTAMENT AND OF ITS TRANSMISSION
- CHAPTER I The Alexandrian Greek Version
- CHAPTER II Later Greek Versions
- CHAPTER III The Hexapla, and the Hexaplaric and other Recensions of the Septuagint
- CHAPTER IV Ancient Versions based upon the Septuagint
- CHAPTER V Manuscripts of the Septuagint
- CHAPTER VI Printed Texts of the Septuagint
- PART II THE CONTENTS OF THE ALEXANDRIAN OLD TESTAMENT
- PART III LITERARY USE, VALUE, AND TEXTUAL CONDITION OF THE GREEK OLD TESTAMENT
- APPENDIX: THE LETTER OF PSEUDO-ARISTEAS
- INDICES
CHAPTER V - Manuscripts of the Septuagint
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- PART I THE HISTORY OF THE GREEK OLD TESTAMENT AND OF ITS TRANSMISSION
- CHAPTER I The Alexandrian Greek Version
- CHAPTER II Later Greek Versions
- CHAPTER III The Hexapla, and the Hexaplaric and other Recensions of the Septuagint
- CHAPTER IV Ancient Versions based upon the Septuagint
- CHAPTER V Manuscripts of the Septuagint
- CHAPTER VI Printed Texts of the Septuagint
- PART II THE CONTENTS OF THE ALEXANDRIAN OLD TESTAMENT
- PART III LITERARY USE, VALUE, AND TEXTUAL CONDITION OF THE GREEK OLD TESTAMENT
- APPENDIX: THE LETTER OF PSEUDO-ARISTEAS
- INDICES
Summary
The great edition of the Septuagint published by Holmes and Parsons ends with a complete list of the MSS. employed (vol. v. ad fin., addenda). It enumerates 311 codices (I.—XIII., 14—311), of which I.—XIII., 23, 27, 39, 43, 156, 188, 190, 258, 262, are written in uncial letters, or partly so, while the rest are in minuscule or cursive hands. Since 1827, the date of the publication of the last volume of the Oxford edition, the list of available codices or fragments has been largely increased, owing partly to the researches and publications of Tischendorf, partly to the progress which has recently been made in the examination and cataloguing of Eastern libraries, and the discovery in Egypt of fragments of papyrus bearing Biblical texts. In this chapter an effort has been made to present the student with a complete list of all the MSS. which have been or are being used by editors of the LXX., and of the important fragments so far as they are known to us. It is, however, impossible to guarantee either the exhaustiveness or the correctness in regard to minor details of information which has been brought together from many sources and cannot be verified by enquiry at first hand.
Systems of Notation. Two systems have been used to denote the uncial MSS. Holmes employed Roman numerals; Lagarde, the capitals of the Roman alphabet. […]
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- An Introduction to the Old Testament in GreekWith an Appendix Containing the Letter of Aristeas, pp. 122 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1900