THE NAG HAMMADI
LIBRARY
complete Coptic — 59 tractates, codices I–XIII, 34,623 lines
The stack. Every text says what it is.
MANUSCRIPT WITNESS (NHC I–XIII, Coptic Museum, Cairo) → TRANSCRIPTION (Milan Konvicka, Marcion project, GPL-2.0 — a modern encoded editorial artifact, not ownerless ancient text) → NORMALIZATION (CHA/TLL Unicode layer, 2026, mapping verified by incipit decode, GPL inherited) → THIS PROJECTION. The ASCII layer is the transcription of record; the Unicode layer prints its mapping and its one held ambiguity in every file header. Witness-image control: Claremont Nag Hammadi Archive, open IIIF.
The entire Coptic library had been digitized openly; it was hiding inside a 2010 SourceForge database dump. It is on the shelf now.
| tractate | extent | the bytes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHC I | |||
| The Prayer of the Apostle Paul | 46 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Apocryphon of James | 612 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Gospel of Truth | 998 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Treatise on the Resurrection | 264 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Tripartite Tractate | 3243 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC II | |||
| The Apocryphon of John | 1108 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Gospel of Thomas | 670 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Gospel of Philip | 1236 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Hypostasis of the Archons | 384 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| On the Origin of the World | 1033 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Exegesis on the Soul | 359 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Book of Thomas the Contender | 346 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC III | |||
| The Apocryphon of John | 840 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Gospel of the Egyptians | 643 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| Eugnostos the Blessed | 438 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Sophia of Jesus Christ | 603 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Dialogue of the Saviour | 659 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC IV | |||
| The Apocryphon of John | 1204 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Gospel of the Egyptians | 800 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC IX | |||
| Melchizedek | 516 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Thought of Norea | 52 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Testimony of Truth | 1112 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC V | |||
| Eugnostos the Blessed | 500 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Apocalypse of Paul | 189 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The (First) Apocalypse of James | 560 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The (Second) Apocalypse of James | 557 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Apocalypse of Adam | 626 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC VI | |||
| The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles | 393 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Thunder, Perfect Mind | 309 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| Authoritative Teaching | 450 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Concept of Our Great Power | 419 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| Plato, Republic 588A-589B | 109 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth | 390 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Prayer of Thanksgiving | 52 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| Asclepius 21-29 | 506 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC VII | |||
| The Paraphrase of Shem | 1697 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Second Treatise of the Great Seth | 746 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Apocalypse of Peter | 466 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Teachings of Silvanus | 1163 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Three Steles of Seth | 326 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC VIII | |||
| Zostrianos | 3241 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Letter of Peter to Philip | 238 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC X | |||
| Marsanes | 1186 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| fragments | 65 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC XI | |||
| The Interpretation of Knowledge | 612 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| A Valentinian Exposition | 495 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| 2a. On the Anointing | 23 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| 2b. On the Baptism A | 39 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| 2c. On the Baptism B | 38 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| 2d. On the Eucharist A | 19 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| 2e. On the Eucharist B | 25 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| Allogenes | 817 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| Hypsiphrone | 75 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| fragments | 114 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC XII | |||
| The Sentences of Sextus | 282 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| The Gospel of Truth | 109 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| fragments | 60 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| NHC XIII | |||
| Trimorphic Protennoia | 551 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |
| On the Origin of the World | 10 ll. | COPTIC | ASCII |