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Research atlas for early Christianity. Claims are tagged attested, traditional, or disputed. Copyrighted full texts, including CCEL editions, are not included.

Texts

surviving

Ptolemy, Letter to Flora

c. 150–180 · Greek

Groups: Valentinians

Complete, but it survives only because Epiphanius copied it into the Panarion (33.3–7) in order to refute it. This is the only intact letter by a 2nd-century 'Gnostic' teacher.

Where the manuscripts are now

  • Manuscripts of Epiphanius' Panarion, various

    e.g. Codex Vaticanus gr. 503 and Marcianus gr. 125 (Panarion tradition)

Sources

No open translation is linked. The status note says how the text is known.

DeChurched Atlas — Early Christianity as history, from every source