List of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues

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Some 250 known manuscripts of Plato survive.[1] The following is a partial list of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues.

Medieval minuscules

There are 51 Byzantine manuscripts in Greek minuscule that constitute the main basis for the text of Plato's works.[2]

  • Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39 — 895 AD; first six tetralogies, designated B.[3]
  • Codex Parisinus graecus 1807 — circa 900 AD; last two tetralogies and the apocrypha, designated A
  • Codex Venetus Marcianus graecus IV, 1, designated T[4]
  • Codex Vindobonensis 54, supplementum phil. Gr. 7, designated W[5]

Papyri

Name Date Content Institution
Papyrus 2993 [1] 300 BC-200 BC Sophist 223-224 Digitised Manuscripts, British Library
P.Oxy.XXXIII 2662 [2] 100 BC-100 AD Meno 92E-93B Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
Papyrus 3051 [3] 1-200 AD Politicus 257B, 261D-262C Digitised Manuscripts, British Library
Papyrus 187 [4] 1-250 AD Laches 181a8-182a4 Digitised Manuscripts, British Library
Papyrus 2048 [5] 100-300 AD Phaedrus Digitised Manuscripts, British Library
P.Oxy.LII 3667 [6] 200-300 AD Alcibiades II 142 B-143 C Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.XV 1808 [7] 100-200 AD Republic viii Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3678 [8] 200-300 AD Philebus18 E-19 A Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5087 [9] 200-300 AD Laches 180 E, 182 B-C Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3682 [10] 100-200 AD Theaetetus 209 A-C Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5078 [11] 200-400 AD Alcibiades I 105 C-D Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5086 [12] 200-300 AD Laches 179 C-D, 180 A-B Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.XXXIII 2663 [13] 100-200 AD Cratylus 405C Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3677 [14] 100-200 AD Phaedrus 267 C Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.XV 1809 [15] 100-200 AD Phaedo Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3676 [16] 100-200 AD Phaedo 107 D-110 A Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5079 [17] 150-200 AD Alcibiades I 109 A-B, 109 B Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.XLIV 3157 [18] 100-200 AD Republic x Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3668 [19] 100-200 AD Epistle 2. 310 E-311 A Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5090 [20] 100-200 AD Politicus 270 D-E Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3672 [21] 200-300 AD Laws 6. 751 A-C Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3681 [22] 100-300 AD Theaetetus 198 D-E Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3666 [23] 100-200 AD Alcibiades I 113 B and 132 A-B Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5088 [24] 100-200 AD Meno 72 E, 73 A-B Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5089 [25] 100-200 AD Politicus 257 B-C, 257 D-258 A Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.XLVII 3326 [26] 100-200 AD Republic 8. 545C-546A Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.XLIX 3509 [27] 200-300 AD Republic i 330 a2 - b4 Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5084 [28] 100-200 AD Crito 43 B, 45 B-E, 45 E-46 A, 46 C-D Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3671 [29] 150-200 AD Laches 179 B-C Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3670 [30] 100-300 AD Hippias Major 291 D-E Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.XXXVI 2751 [31] 150-250 AD Republic III Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3680 [32] 100-200 AD Theaetetus 190 E-191 A Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.XVII 2102 [33] 150-200 AD Phaedrus Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.XV 1809 [34] 100-200 AD Phaedo Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5091 [35] 100-300 AD Politicus 299 E, 300 A-B, 300 C Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5092 [36] 100-200 AD Politicus 305 D-306 B Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3674 [37] 100-200 AD Laws 9. 854 C-D Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3673 [38] 150-250 AD Laws 6. 771 A-D Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3675 [39] 100-200 AD Laws 9. 865 A-C Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3669 [40] 100-200 AD Gorgias 491 B, 495 C-E Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5081 [41] 100-300 AD Charmides 166C, 167A Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5085 [42] 200-300 AD Euthedemus 286 D, 286 E Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LII 3679 [43] 200-300 AD Republic 5. 472 E-473 D Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5082 [44] 200-300 AD Charmides 172 C-D, 173 A-B Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
P.Oxy.LXXVI 5083 [45] 200-350 AD Cratylus 423 E Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford

Additional fragments with possibly outdated references

Versions

Tetralogies

The traditional division of the works of Plato into tetralogies was done by Thrasyllus of Mendes.[6] The list includes works of doubtful authenticity (in italic), as well as the Letters.

Notes

  1. ^ Brumbaugh, Robert S.; Wells, Rulon S. (1989). "Completing Yale's Plato Microfilm Project". The Yale University Library Gazette. 64 (1/2): 73–75. JSTOR 40858970.
  2. ^ Irwin, T. H. (2019). "The Platonic Corpus". In Gail Fine (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Plato (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 68–91.
  3. ^ Complete photographic facsimile in Allen, T. W., Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39 Phototypice editus, 2 vols. Leiden 1898–9. Digitized version available online.
  4. ^ Available online on the library website.
  5. ^ Available online
  6. ^ "Thrasyllus and the division of the Platonic dialogues into tetralogies". Encyclopedia of Plato. Archived from the original on 2020-08-19. Retrieved 2019-08-22.

Further reading

  • R. S. Brumbaugh and R. Wells, The Plato Manuscripts (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1968).
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