200 biblical manuscripts Click to see full answer. Accordingly, how many manuscripts of the Bible have been found?Parts of the New Testament have been preserved in more manuscripts than any other ancient work. There are over 5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages, such as Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic and Armenian.Beside above, where are the original manuscripts of the Bible located? The Greek manuscripts which we do possess today are kept in various museums and institutions, mostly located in Europe but there are a few in the United States. One of the Chester Beatty Papyri, which is one of the oldest fragments containing parts of the New Testament is kept at the University of Michigan. Secondly, are there original manuscripts of the Old Testament? Before this discovery, the earliest extant manuscripts of the Old Testament were in Greek, in manuscripts such as the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus. Out of the roughly 800 manuscripts found at Qumran, 220 are from the Tanakh.What is considered the oldest book ever written in the world?The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-line Bible, is listed by the Guinness Book of World records as the world’s oldest mechanically printed book – the first copies of which were printed in 1454-1455 AD.