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The Bruce Codex (Latin: Codex Brucianus) is a codex that contains Coptic, Arabic, and Ethiopic manuscripts. It contains rare Gnostic works; the Bruce Codex is the only known surviving copy of the Books of Jeu and another work simply called Untitled Text or the Untitled Apocalypse. In 1769, James Bruce purchased the codex in Upper Egypt.
Among the texts in the Bruce Codex were the Untitled Text and the Books of Jeu. The manuscript in the Bruce Codex is a Coptic [11] translation of an older Greek original. [4] The existing Coptic manuscript of the Untitled Text probably dates to around 350 CE, and an original Greek manuscript may date to the late third century. [12]
Bruce Codex contains the first and second Books of Jeu and three fragments – an untitled text, an untitled hymn, and the text "On the Passage of the Soul Through the Archons of the Midst". Codex Tchacos , 4th century, contains the Gospel of Judas , the First Apocalypse of James , the Letter of Peter to Philip , and a fragment of Allogenes .
It is believed that the Sahidic Coptic of the Codex version is a translation, however, and the original was written in Koine Greek in the early 3rd century. This estimate is because the Pistis Sophia mentions the two books of Jeu twice (158.18 and 228.35), suggesting that the Books of Jeu were written before it, and the Pistis Sophia is dated ...
The ancient Gnostic text known as the Bruce Codex was discovered near Alexandria, Egypt in 1769 and translated into German in 1892 by Carl Schmidt. [1] An English translation of the text with Schmidt's commentary was published in 1978, with translation and notes by Violet Macdermot. [1]
For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology, a "codex" is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages. (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.)
The codex was sold in London by Christie's on 11 June 2024. Preserved in plexiglass and two lockable wooden boxes, the estimated selling price was between 2–3 million GBP (2.6–3.8 million USD), [3] [7] and the codex was finally sold for 3.065 million GBP (US$3.93 million). [8]
Minuscule 1739 or Codex Athous Laurae 184 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament made of parchment.It is designated as 1739 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and as α 78 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts.