Over forty manuscripts are known to exist, not all of equal weight in reconstructing the text and not all are of independent value. The following table summarises the manuscripts in which the Historia appears, even if only in part.
|
Manuscript name |
Manuscript date |
Mommsen |
| British Library Additional 11702 | Early 14th century | |
| British Library Burney 310 | 1381 | G |
| British Library Cotton Caligula A VIII | Mid 12th century | P |
| British Library Cotton Julius D V | Late 14th century | 3 |
| British Library Cotton Nero D VIII | Early 13th century | Q |
| British Library Cotton Vespasianus B XXV | Early 12th century | 2 |
| British Library Cotton Vespasianus D XXI | Early 12th century | K |
| British Library Cotton Vitellius A XIII | Early 13th century | 1 |
| British Library Cotton Vitellius E I | 13th century | |
| British Library Cotton Vitellius F IX | 16th century | |
| British Library Harley 3859 | Late 11th/early 12th century | H |
| British Library Harley 624 | 17th century | |
| British Library Royal 13 B VII | 16th century | |
| British Library Royal 13 B XV | 16th century | |
| British Library Royal B D V | 13th century | 6 |
| Cambridge Corpus Christi College 101 | 17th century | |
| Cambridge Corpus Christi College 139 | 1164×1166 | C |
| Cambridge Corpus Christi College 363 | early 16th century | |
| Cambridge Trinity College O.5.37 | 1681 | |
| Cambridge University Library Ff I.27 (folios 21-36) | 1160 | 7 |
| Cambridge University Library Ff.I.27 (f 41-72) | Fourteenth century | |
| Cambridge University Library Ff.I.27 (f 7-20) | Early 13th century | L |
| Cambridge University Library Ii.VI.11 | 13th century | 5 |
| Cambridge University Library Mm.V.29 | 12th century | 4 |
| Chartres Bibliothèque Municipale 98 | 9th/10th century | Z |
| Conybeare | 14th century | |
| Douai Bibliothèque Municipale 795 | 11th/12th century | |
| Durham Cathedral B II 35 | Mid 12th century | D¹ |
| Évreux 41 | 13th century | |
| Glasgow University Library Hunter 318 | 17th century | |
| Leiden Universitaeitsbibliotheek BPL 20 | 1139 | |
| London College of Arms Norfolk 30 | Early 14th century | 10 |
| Oxford Bodleian Library Bodley 163 | 12th century | 11 |
| Oxford Bodleian Library Carte 113 | 18th century | |
| Oxford College of St John the Baptist 99.3 | Early 13th century | |
| Paris Bibliothèque National Latin 9768 | 11th century | |
| Paris Bibliothèque Nationale Latin 11108 | Later 12th century | N |
| Paris Bibliothèque Nationale Latin 15009 | 1166 | 9 |
| Paris Bibliothèque Nationale Latin 5232 | 12th century | |
| Paris Bibliothèque Nationale Latin 6274 | Early 13th century | 8 |
| Paris Bibliothèque Nationale Latin 8048 | 13th century | |
| Paris Bibliothèque Nationale MS Latin 8501A | Later 12th century | |
| Rennes Bibliothèque I.F.1005 | Late 15th century | |
| Rouen Bibliothèque Municipale U74 | 12th/13th century | |
| Vatican Biblioteca Apostolica Reginensis Latini 1964 | Late 11th century | M |
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