Table of Pentateuch Manuscripts
| MS | Century | Uncials With Pentateuch |
Gen | Exod | Lev |
Num |
Deut |
| A | 5th | ALEXANDRINUS | + | + | + | + | + |
| B | 4th | VATICANUS | + | + | + | + | + |
| D | 5-6th | COTTONIANUS | + | - | - | - | - |
| F | 5th | AMBROSIANUS | + | + | + | + | - |
| G | 4-5th | SARRAVIANUS | + | + | + | + | + |
| K | 7-8th | Leipzig Palimpsest | - | - | - | + | + |
| L | 5-6th | VINDOBONENSIS | + | - | - | - | - |
| M | 7th | COISLINIANUS | + | + | + | + | + |
| S | 4-5th | SINAITICUS | + | - | - | + | - |
| V | 8th | VENETUS | + | - | - | + | + |
| WI | 5th | FREER I | - | - | - | - | + |
Omitted is the 10th c. Bodleian Genesis at Oxford, with one side in UNCIALS and one in minuscule; http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#E
Other UNCIALS in the Rahls/Hanhart Note Card that do not witness to the Pentateuch
are:
- C, 5th c., Codex Ephraemi Rescrip http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C, a Wisdom & Scrolls texts, palimpsest
- I, 9th c., Bodleian MS of the Psalms http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C with many Aquila, Sym, Theod, Quinta, & Septa readings
- O, 6th c., Codex Dublinensis Rescrip http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C
Palimpsest, Isaiah. - P, uncertain date, Psalms fragment http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C
- Q, 6th c., Codex Marchalianus http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C Prophets, Hexaplaric notes
- R, 6th c., Codex Veronensis Psalter, http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C
- T, 7th c., Codex Turicensis, http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C
- “W”, 9th c., Fragments of Psalms http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C
PENTATEUCH WITNESSES
- Alexandrinus on the web: http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#A
- Vaticanus on the web: http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#B
- D, The Cotton Genesis http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C
- F, Ambrosianus http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C
- G, Sarravianus http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C - Hexaplaric, Pentateuch plus Joshua and Judges
- H, 6th c., Petropolitanus, Contains portions of Numbers, apparently not used by Wevers, http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C
- K, 7th-8th c., Leipzig palimpsest, 22 leaves, Num, Dt, Josh, Judges; http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C
- L, 5th-6th, Vienna Genesis, http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C
- M, 7th c., Codex Coislinianus, http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C Genesis to 3 Kingdoms, though mutilated.
- N, 8th c., Codex Basiliano-Vaticanus, http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm#C
- S, Codex Sinaiticus, http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch5-LXX.htm# (aleph), IV century, fragmentary, but intended to be complete OG/OT
Descriptions and computer references (July 10, 2007) are from the Katapi site, www.katapi.org.uk, a rendering of Chapter V (Part
2) of
OUR BIBLE & THE ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS
by SIR FREDERIC KENYON
formerly Director of the British
Museum
Copyright Sir F Kenyon 1895. First published Eyre & Spottiswoode
1895.
fourth edition 1939.
Prepared for katapi by Paul Ingram
2003.
Table and Index of Codices prepared by Sigrid Peterson, Ph.D.
for the CCAT/CATSS OG Variants Project at the University of Pennsylvania
(Directed by Robert A. Kraft, Ph.D.)




