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. This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The main entrance to the British Museum. ... 1769 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... See also James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin. ... Two important places in antiquity were called Thebes: Thebes, Greece – Thebes of the Seven Gates; one-time capital of Boeotia. ... Map of Upper and Lower Egypt Ancient Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as Upper and Lower Egypt. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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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". The Books of Jeu are two gnostic texts considered part of the New Testament apocrypha. ...
It was translated in 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". 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
The translation of the Bruce Codex together with the Askew Codex has been brought up to date by Christian O'Brien and further information can be found on www.goldenageproject.org.uk
This "Askew Codex" was purchased by the British Museum in 1795 from a Dr. Askew.
Until the discovery of the papyri at Nag Hammadi in 1945, the Askew Codex was one of three codices that contained almost all of the gnostic writings that had survived the suppression of such literature both in East and West, the other two codices being the BruceCodex and the Berlin Codex.
Aside from these sources, everything written about Gnosticism before World War II is based on quotes, references and inferences in the Patristic writings of the enemies of Gnosticism, a less-than-neutral source, where Gnostic beliefs were selected to present their absurdities, bizarre and inethical behavior, and heresy from the othodox Pauline Christian standpoint.
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