List of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues

Part of the series on:
The dialogues of Plato
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 Demodocus Epinomis Eryxias Halcyon Hipparchus 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