|Histories|Oldest Manuscripts|Number Surviving| |---|---|---| |Livy 59b.c.–a.d. 17|4th centurya.d.|27| |Tacitus a.d.56–120|9th centurya.d.|3| |Suetoniusa.d. 69–140|9th centurya.d.|200+| |Thucydides 460–400b.c.|1st centurya.d.|20| |Herodotus 484–425b.c.|1st centurya.d.|75| |New Testament|c. 100–150a.d.|c. 5,700 (counting only Greek manuscripts) plus more than 10,000 in Latin, and more than a million quotations from the church fathers, etc.|