Comparison of Extant Historical Documents

HistoriesOldest ManuscriptsNumber Surviving
Livy 59 b.c.a.d. 174th century a.d.27
Tacitus a.d. 56–1209th century a.d.3
Suetonius a.d. 69–1409th century a.d.200+
Thucydides 460–400 b.c.1st century a.d.20
Herodotus 484–425 b.c.1st century a.d.75
New Testamentc. 100–150 a.d.c. 5,700 (counting only Greek manuscripts) plus more than 10,000 in Latin, more than a million quotations from the church fathers, etc.

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