Images: Claremont Colleges Digital Library (incomplete); Yale Beinecke Library
Other shelfmark(s): Nag Hammadi Codex III
Physical description: papyrus, 25.8 × 14.4/15.6/16.1 cm, 156 pp. (initial page blank, p. 2 title only, p. 148 blank, and final 3 leaves blank and missing), 1 col. Pages 19/20, 45/46, 47/48, 79/80, 109/110, 115/116 removed before acquisition by the Coptic Museum and now missing but are extant in the Claremont photographs; final three flyleaves missing, but likely blank. A fragment from the middle of pp. 145/146 is at Yale University (Yale inv. 1784).
Language(s): Coptic
Date: 4th century
Provenance: Jabal al-Taref, near Nag Hammadi
Contents:
Apocryphon of John (pp. 1–40)
Gospel of the Egyptians (pp. 40–69)
Eugnostos the Blessed (pp. 70–90)
Wisdom of Jesus Christ (pp. 90–119)
Dialogue of the Savior (pp. 120–147)
Additional Contents: none
Catalogs: codicological analysis in Stephen Emmel, Helmut Koester, and Elaine Pagels, eds. Nag Hammadi Codex III, 5: The Dialogue of the Savior. Nag Hammadi Studies 26. Leiden: Brill, 1984 (pp. 19–27).
Other online databases: LDAB; PAThs
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 10 April 2017.