Bruce Codex

A reconstruction of an illustration in the Bruce Codex of a Gnostic cross that may have been intended as a frontispiece.

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. It is currently kept in the Bodleian Library (Bruce 96), where it has been since 1848.


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