List of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues

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The dialogues of Plato

Part of the series on:
Early dialogues:
Apology Charmides Crito Euthyphro First Alcibiades Hippias Major Hippias Minor Ion Laches Lysis
Transitional and middle dialogues:
Cratylus Euthydemus Gorgias Menexenus Meno Phaedo Protagoras Symposium
Later middle dialogues:
Republic Parmenides Theaetetus Phaedrus
Late dialogues:
Clitophon Timaeus Critias Sophist Statesman Philebus Laws
Of doubtful authenticity:
Axiochus Definitions Demodocus Epinomis Epistles Eryxias Halcyon Hipparchus Horoi Minos On Justice On Virtue Rival Lovers Second Alcibiades Sisyphus Theages

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

Medieval minuscules

Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39 — 895 AD; first six tetralogies, designated B.^[2]
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^[3]
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3679 — Republic, fragment

Versions

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

Notes

↑ JSTOR 40858970
↑ Complete photographic facsimile in Allen, T. W., Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39 Phototypice editus, 2 vols. Leiden 1898–9.
↑ Slings, S. R., Platonis Rempublicam (Oxford University Press, 2003), xxii.

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