Bruce Codex

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The Bruce Codex (also called the Codex Brucianus) is a gnostic manuscript acquired by the British Museum. In 1769, Lord James Bruce purchased the codex in Thebes in Upper Egypt. It was transferred to the museum with a number of other Oriental texts in 1842. It currently resides in the Bodleian Library, where it has been since 1848.

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The 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".

It was translated into English by Carl Schmidt (editor) and Violet Macdermot (translator) in 1892 under the name The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex.

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• The Gnostic Society Library - The Bruce Codex
• The Codex Brucianus
• up to date translation of the Bruce Codex and the Askew Codex, by Christian O'Brien