Nag Hammadi – Codex II

Apocrypha & Gnostic · 1 edition served openly

A folder of the repository. Its texts are witnesses of the compositions On the Origin of the World, The Apocryphon of John, The Book of Thomas the Contender, The Expository Treatise on the Soul, The Gospel of Philip, The Gospel of Thomas, The Hypostasis of the Archons — every witness served, the standard one first (ruling WORK-1).

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7 texts · layers: L0 witness (OCR) · L1 Cairene · L2 Kemetic

Licence: public domain — the ancient Coptic text of the Nag Hammadi codices (4th century), which no modern edition can bring back into copyright. The EDITION IS IN COPYRIGHT: *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, general editor J. M. Robinson, Brill 2000 (paperback reprint of Nag Hammadi Studies / Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 1975-1995), © Koninklijke Brill NV — its apparatus, notes, introductions and English translation are NOT reproduced in this repository and stay internal. RULED by Yousef 2026-09-12: "the ancient Coptic text is PD; the edition's apparatus, translation and notes are not" (outputs/TERMS_NOTES.md §B; LICENCES.md §12.7)

Attribution (first text; each text prints its own): Coptic text of On the Origin of the World as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2000; reprint of the Nag Hammadi Studies edition), read by OCR. The ancient Coptic text is public domain; the edition's apparatus, notes and English translation are Brill's and are not reproduced. OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.