Nag Hammadi Library

Nag Hammadi Library: the recovered codices of Egypt, 1945.

Use the codex map below to choose an entry point by theme, then follow each codex into full text pages, source notes, and linked study routes.

This is a live reading room: primary texts first, structured access second. Published texts are updated in waves as codices are completed.

Nag Hammadi Commentary

Currently live: 52 of 52 text entries (100%) across 13 codices. 13 codices live.

The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of Coptic manuscripts discovered near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt in 1945. Comprising thirteen codices and more than fifty individual treatises, it represents one of the most significant recoveries of early Christian and Gnostic literature.

As part of Codex Reborn within The Vault, this collection presents digital editions of the Nag Hammadi texts for study and reference. The manuscripts preserve a wide range of theological, cosmological, and philosophical perspectives that developed alongside, and often in tension with, traditions that later became orthodox.

The writings include texts such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of the Egyptians, and many others. Themes explored within the manuscripts include revelation, the nature of creation, the role of intermediary powers, and the liberation of the soul through knowledge.

These texts are preserved here without doctrinal endorsement. They are presented to make visible the diversity of early Christian thought and to support careful reading, comparison, and historical inquiry into traditions long excluded from official canons.