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List of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues

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Some 250 known manuscripts of Plato survive. The following is a partial list of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues:

Contents

Medieval minuscules

  • Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39 — 895 AD; first six tetralogies, designated B.
  • Codex Parisinus graecus 1807 — circa 900 AD; last two tetralogies and the apocrypha, designated A
  • Codex Venetus Marcianus graecus appendix classis 4, I, designated T
  • Codex Vindobonensis 54, supplementum phil. Gr. 7, designated W

    • Papyri

  • Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 228 — Laches, fragment
  • Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 229 — Phaedo, fragment
  • Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3509 — Republic, fragment containing 330a2–b4
  • Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3679 — Republic, fragment

    • Versions

  • Nag Hammadi library – Republic 588A–589B, Coptic version

    • References

    List of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues Wikipedia
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