Texts
108 writings tied to these groups. The badge says whether a book survives, survives in pieces, or is known only from its opponents. No full text is stored here.
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Gospel of Truth
c. 140–180 · Coptic (from Greek) · Valentinians
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Gospel of Philip
c. 180–300 · Coptic (from Greek, possibly Syriac milieu) · Valentinians
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Tripartite Tractate
3rd c. · Coptic · Valentinians
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Treatise on the Resurrection (Letter to Rheginos)
late 2nd c. · Coptic · Valentinians
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Interpretation of Knowledge
2nd–3rd c. · Coptic · Valentinians
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A Valentinian Exposition (with liturgical fragments on anointing, baptism, eucharist)
2nd–3rd c. · Coptic · Valentinians
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Prayer of the Apostle Paul
2nd–3rd c. · Coptic · Valentinians
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Ptolemy, Letter to Flora
c. 150–180 · Greek · Valentinians
- fragment
Heracleon, Commentary on John (fragments)
c. 170 · Greek · Valentinians
- fragment
Valentinus, fragments of letters, homilies and a psalm ("Harvest")
c. 140–160 · Greek · Valentinians
- fragment
Excerpts from Theodotus
c. 200 (Clement's notes on a 2nd-c. teacher) · Greek · Valentinians
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Apocryphon (Secret Book) of John
2nd c. (Irenaeus summarizes a related myth c. 180) · Coptic (from Greek) · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
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Hypostasis (Reality) of the Archons
3rd c. · Coptic · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
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Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit ("Gospel of the Egyptians")
3rd c. · Coptic · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
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Apocalypse of Adam
1st–3rd c. (date debated) · Coptic · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
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Three Steles of Seth
3rd c. · Coptic · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
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Zostrianos
early 3rd c. · Coptic · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
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Marsanes
3rd c. · Coptic · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
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Allogenes (the Stranger)
3rd c. · Coptic · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
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Trimorphic Protennoia
2nd–3rd c. · Coptic · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
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Melchizedek
3rd c. · Coptic · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
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Thought of Norea
3rd c. · Coptic · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
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Gospel of Judas
2nd c. (Greek original); Coptic copy c. 280 (radiocarbon) · Coptic (from Greek) · Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")
- fragment
Gospel of Mary (Magdalene)
2nd c. · Coptic; Greek fragments ·
- surviving
Gospel of Thomas
1st–2nd c. (date strongly debated) · Coptic; Greek fragments ·
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Pistis Sophia
3rd c. · Coptic ·
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Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text (Bruce Codex)
3rd c. · Coptic ·
- fragment
Basilides, Exegetica (24 books)
c. 130 · Greek · Basilideans
- fragment
Isidore, Ethics and other works (fragments)
2nd c. · Greek · Basilideans
- fragment
Epiphanes, On Righteousness
2nd c. · Greek · Carpocratians
- surviving
Letter to Theodore ("Secret Gospel of Mark")
Attributed to Clement (c. 200); handwriting 18th c. · Greek · Carpocratians
- known only from opponents
Marcion's Gospel (Evangelion)
c. 140s · Greek · Marcionites
- known only from opponents
Marcion's Apostolikon (ten letters of Paul)
c. 140s · Greek · Marcionites
- known only from opponents
Marcion, Antitheses
c. 140s · Greek · Marcionites
- surviving
Lebaba Marcionite synagogue inscription
318/319 · Greek · Marcionites
- fragment
Oracles of Montanus, Priscilla and Maximilla
2nd c. · Greek (Latin in Tertullian) · Montanists (the New Prophecy)
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Tertullian's New Prophecy period works (On Fasting, On Monogamy, On Modesty, On the Soul, Against Praxeas)
c. 207–220 · Latin · Montanists (the New Prophecy)
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Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
c. 203 · Latin (Greek version) · Montanists (the New Prophecy)
- fragment
Gospel of the Ebionites
2nd c. · Greek · Ebionites
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Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions and Homilies
4th c. (redaction); earlier sources · Latin (Rufinus), Greek, Syriac · Ebionites
- fragment
Symmachus, Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible
late 2nd c. · Greek · Ebionites
- fragment
Book of Elchasai
c. 116 · Aramaic (Greek version) · Elkasaites (Elchasaites)
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Cologne Mani Codex ("On the Origin of his Body")
4th–5th c. copy of an earlier Greek translation from Aramaic · Greek · Manichaeans, Elkasaites (Elchasaites)
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Kephalaia (Kephalaia of the Teacher; Kephalaia of the Wisdom of my Lord Mani)
Coptic copies c. 400; contents 3rd–4th c. · Coptic (Lycopolitan) · Manichaeans
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Manichaean Psalm-Book
c. 4th c. · Coptic · Manichaeans
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Manichaean Homilies
c. 4th c. · Coptic · Manichaeans
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Synaxeis codex (on the Living Gospel)
c. 4th c. · Coptic · Manichaeans
- fragment
Medinet Madi codices lost after 1945 (Letters of Mani; Acts codex)
c. 4th c. · Coptic · Manichaeans
- fragment
Shabuhragan (dedicated to Shapur I)
c. 240s · Middle Persian · Manichaeans
- fragment
Manichaean Book of Giants
3rd c. · Middle Persian, Sogdian, Uyghur, Parthian (fragments) · Manichaeans
- fragment
Living (Great) Gospel of Mani
3rd c. · Aramaic (orig.); fragments in Greek, Middle Persian, Sogdian · Manichaeans
- fragment
Tebessa Codex (Latin Manichaean treatise)
4th–5th c. · Latin · Manichaeans
- surviving
Kellis Manichaean texts (letters, psalms, accounts)
mid-4th c. · Coptic, Greek, Syriac · Manichaeans
- surviving
Chinese Manichaean Hymnscroll (Xiabuzan)
8th–9th c. (copy) · Chinese · Manichaeans
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Compendium of the Doctrines and Styles of the Teaching of Mani, the Buddha of Light
731 · Chinese · Manichaeans
- surviving
Chinese Manichaean Traité (Sermon on the Light-Nous, Chinese version)
8th c. · Chinese · Manichaeans
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Xwāstwānīft (Manichaean confession for Hearers)
c. 8th–10th c. · Old Uyghur (Turkic) · Manichaeans
- fragment
Arius, Thalia ("Banquet")
c. 320s · Greek · Arians / Homoians
- surviving
Arius, Letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia
c. 318 · Greek · Arians / Homoians
- fragment
Philostorgius, Church History
c. 425–433 · Greek · Arians / Homoians
- fragment
Gothic Bible (Codex Argenteus, "Silver Bible")
Translation c. 350s–380 (Ulfilas); codex c. 520 (Ravenna) · Gothic · Arians / Homoians
- fragment
Skeireins (Gothic commentary on John)
5th–6th c. · Gothic · Arians / Homoians
- surviving
Scholia Arriana / Letter of Auxentius on Ulfilas
late 4th c. · Latin · Arians / Homoians
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Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum
5th c. · Latin · Arians / Homoians
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Eunomius, Apology
c. 360 · Greek · Arians / Homoians
- surviving
Tyconius, Book of Rules (Liber regularum)
c. 380 · Latin · Donatists
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Donatist martyr acts (Passions of Donatus, Maximian and Isaac, Marculus; Abitinian martyrs, Donatist recension)
4th c. · Latin · Donatists
- fragment
Petilian of Cirta, Letter to his clergy
c. 400 · Latin · Donatists
- fragment
Minutes of the Conference of Carthage (Gesta collationis Carthaginiensis)
411 · Latin · Donatists
- surviving
Novatian, On the Trinity
c. 240–250 · Latin · Novatianists
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Novatian, On Jewish Foods
c. 250s · Latin · Novatianists
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Melitian monastic papyri (Paieous and Nepheros archives)
c. 330s–350s · Greek, Coptic · Melitians (Meletians) of Egypt
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Nestorius, Book (Bazaar) of Heracleides
c. 450 · Syriac (from Greek) · Church of the East (so-called "Nestorians")
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Narsai, Liturgical (metrical) Homilies
5th c. · Syriac · Church of the East (so-called "Nestorians")
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Synodicon Orientale (East Syriac synodal acts 410–775)
compiled 8th c. · Syriac · Church of the East (so-called "Nestorians")
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Babai the Great, Book of the Union
c. 600–620 · Syriac · Church of the East (so-called "Nestorians")
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Xi'an Stele ("Stele of the Diffusion of the Luminous Religion of Daqin in the Middle Kingdom")
781 · Chinese and Syriac · Church of the East (so-called "Nestorians")
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Chinese Jingjiao (Church of the East) documents from Dunhuang
8th–10th c. · Chinese · Church of the East (so-called "Nestorians")
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Theodore of Mopsuestia, Catechetical Homilies
c. 388–392 · Syriac (Greek original lost) · Church of the East (so-called "Nestorians")
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Severus of Antioch, Cathedral Homilies (Homiliae cathedrales)
512–518 · Syriac (Greek original lost) · Miaphysites (non-Chalcedonian / Oriental Orthodox), Syriac Orthodox Church (Miaphysite branch)
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Henotikon of Zeno
482 · Greek · Miaphysites (non-Chalcedonian / Oriental Orthodox)
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Rabbula Gospels
586 · Syriac · Syriac Orthodox Church (Miaphysite branch), Miaphysites (non-Chalcedonian / Oriental Orthodox)
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Etchmiadzin Gospels
989 (with older miniatures and ivory covers) · Armenian · Armenian Apostolic Church (Miaphysite branch), Miaphysites (non-Chalcedonian / Oriental Orthodox)
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Garima Gospels
c. 4th–7th c. (radiocarbon); dating debated · Ge'ez · Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (Miaphysite branch), Miaphysites (non-Chalcedonian / Oriental Orthodox)
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History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria
compiled 11th c. from earlier Coptic sources · Arabic · Coptic Orthodox Church (Miaphysite branch), Miaphysites (non-Chalcedonian / Oriental Orthodox)
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Würzburg Tractates (11 tractates attributed to Priscillian)
c. 380s · Latin · Priscillianists
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Priscillian, Canons on the Letters of Paul (revised by Peregrinus)
c. 380s · Latin · Priscillianists
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Pelagius, Expositions of the Thirteen Letters of Paul
c. 406–409 · Latin · Pelagians
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Pelagius, Letter to Demetrias
413 · Latin · Pelagians
- fragment
Pelagius, On Nature
c. 414 · Latin · Pelagians
- fragment
Julian of Eclanum, To Florus
c. 421–427 · Latin · Pelagians
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The Key of Truth
Manuscript copied 1782; contents possibly older · Armenian · Paulicians
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Interrogatio Iohannis (Secret Supper; Liber Sancti Iohannis)
12th c. (Latin version) · Latin (from Slavonic/Greek) · Bogomils, Cathars (Albigensians)
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Vision of Isaiah (Ascension of Isaiah 6–11)
1st–2nd c. (original); used 11th–13th c. · Ge'ez (complete); Latin and Old Slavonic versions of the Vision · Bogomils, Cathars (Albigensians)
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Book of the Two Principles (Liber de duobus principiis)
c. 1230–1250 · Latin · Cathars (Albigensians)
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Occitan Cathar Ritual (Lyon), with Occitan New Testament
c. 1250–1280 · Occitan · Cathars (Albigensians)
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Latin Cathar Ritual (Florence)
13th c. · Latin · Cathars (Albigensians)
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Dublin Occitan Cathar ritual and treatise
14th c. (copy) · Occitan · Cathars (Albigensians)
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Inquisition Register of Jacques Fournier (Montaillou depositions)
1318–1325 · Latin · Cathars (Albigensians)
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Melito of Sardis, Peri Pascha (On the Passover)
c. 160–170 · Greek (Latin, Syriac, Coptic versions) · Quartodecimans
- fragment
Tatian, Diatessaron (gospel harmony)
c. 170 · Syriac and/or Greek (original language debated) · Encratites
- surviving
Tatian, Oration (Address) to the Greeks
c. 165–175 · Greek · Encratites
- surviving
Book of the Laws of Countries (Dialogue on Fate)
early 3rd c. · Syriac · Bardaisanites
- known only from opponents
Apophasis Megale (Great Declaration), attributed to Simon
2nd c.? · Greek · Simonians
- surviving
Apollinarian works under orthodox names (e.g. "Kata meros pistis"; letters as Julius of Rome)
4th c. · Greek · Apollinarians
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Macarian Homilies (Pseudo-Macarius)
late 4th c. · Greek · Messalians (Euchites)
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Evagrius Ponticus, Kephalaia Gnostika
late 4th c. · Syriac (two versions; Greek lost) · Origenists
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Origen, On First Principles
c. 220–230 · Latin (Rufinus' translation); Greek fragments · Origenists