The Eid Codex = the Jung Codex = Codex I

Abstract

A decade after the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices, Gilles Quispel published in 1955, in the first book to appear in English on Nag Hammadi, or, more exactly, only on the Eid Codex = the Jung Codex = Codex I, what has become the standard 'History of the Discovery'. It is hence reproduced in this chapter, as the point of departure for the much more detailed documentation from the Nag Hammadi Archives that follows in the chapter. Nag Hammadi Archives was on 10 May 1952, that one acquired at Brussels a Coptic codex of a hundred pages which contained four unknown writings from the second century AD, one of them a heretical Gospel. Albert Eid's codex was 'baptized' as, on 15 November 1953, the 'Jung Codex', to become Codex I in the numeration of the Coptic Museum in Cairo, where the last leaves were returned from Zurich in 1975.Keywords: Brussels; Codex I; Gilles Quispel; heretical Gospel; Jung Codex; Nag Hammadi Codices