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The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the Chenoboskion Manuscripts and the Gnostic Gospels [a]) is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. Thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman. [1]
Nag Hammadi Codex XIII (designated by siglum NHC XIII) is a papyrus codex with a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts in Coptic (Sahidic dialect). The manuscript is generally dated to the 4th century, though there is some debate regarding the original composition of the texts.
The text was discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi library, a collection of 13 codices. [4] [5] The codices had been buried around 400 AD. [6] The writing is a Coptic translation of a Greek original. [7]
1.2 Complete list of codices found in Nag Hammadi. 1.3 Mandaean texts. 1.4 Other. 1.5 Quoted or alluded. 2 Manuscripts. 3 See also. ... and an epitome of the Act of ...
Nag Hammadi Codex II (designated by siglum CG II) is a papyrus codex with a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts in Coptic (Sahidic dialect). [1] The manuscript has survived in nearly perfect condition. The codex is dated to the 4th century. It is the only complete manuscript from antiquity with the text of the Gospel of Thomas. [2]
The Gospel of the Truth (Coptic: ⲡⲉⲩⲁⲅⲅⲉⲗⲓⲟⲛ ⲛ̄ⲧⲙⲏⲉ, romanized: p-euaggelion n-tmēe [1]) is one of the Gnostic texts from the New Testament apocrypha found in the Nag Hammadi codices ("NHC").
The text was discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945 [8] as one of the 51 total treatises transcribed into the 13 codices that make up the Nag Hammadi library. [9] The codices had been buried around 400 AD. [10]
The Hypostasis of the Archons, also called The Reality of the Rulers or The Nature of the Rulers, [1] is a Gnostic writing. [2] The only known surviving manuscript is in Coptic [3] as the fourth tractate in Codex II of the Nag Hammadi library.