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List of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues

The following is a partial list of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues.

Contents

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

Following these tetralogies is an appendix of works whose genuineness was disputed in antiquity: Definitions, Epigrams, On Justice, On Virtue, Demodocus, Sisyphus, Halcyon, Eryxias, Axiochus

Other works frequently transmitted in manuscripts with the works of Plato include the Platonic handbooks of Albinus and Alcinous, Diogenes Laertius's Life of Plato, Theon of Smyrna's Mathematics Useful For Understanding Plato, the Pythagorean Golden Verses, a pseudigraphic speech attributed to Timaeus of Locri that purports to be the "original" version of the Timaeus, Plutarch's On the Creation of the Soul in the Timaeus, and commentaries on dialogues by the Neoplatonist philosophers Hermias, Proclus, Damascius, and Olympiodorus.

Minuscules

Some 250 known minuscule manuscripts of Plato survive.

Medieval

This is a list of pre-16th century manuscripts in Greek minuscule that constitute the main basis for the text of Plato's works.

16th and 17th centuries

Papyri

Oxyrhynchus Papyri

Additional fragments

Others

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