Berlin Codex Texts Not Already Filed

The Berlin Codex

A note on its contents and where each is filed

The Berlin Codex (Papyrus Berolinensis 8502) is a Coptic manuscript, akin to the Nag Hammadi books, which preserves four works. Because three of them are also found among the Nag Hammadi library or are filed elsewhere in this project, this note sets out the contents of the codex and where each text is restored, so that nothing is lost and nothing is duplicated.

Contents of the Berlin Codex

The Gospel of Mary — restored under its own name among the early gospel and wisdom witnesses.

The Apocryphon of John — filed among the Coptic Books of Light (a longer text, on the separate queue).

The Sophia of Jesus Christ — filed among the Coptic Books of Light (on the separate queue).

The Act of Peter — the short account of Peter and his daughter, found only here; it is restored as a witness in its own right where the apocryphal Acts of Peter are gathered.

Thus the Berlin Codex adds no text that is left unaccounted for: each of its four works is filed at its strongest home, and this note holds them together as the witness of a single ancient book.