The writings in these codices are mostly Gnostic treatises, but they also include three works belonging to the Corpus Hermeticum and a partial translation of Plato's Republic. The codices are believed to be a library, hidden by monks from a monastery in the area when these writings were banned by the Orthodox Church.

The contents of the codices were written in subakhmimic or in a form of Sahidic Coptic, though the works were mostly (all?) translations from Greek. Most famous of these works must be the Gospel of Thomas, of which the Nag Hammadi codices contain the only complete copy. After the discovery it was recognized that fragments of these sayings of Jesus appeared in manuscripts that had been discovered at Oxyrhynchus in 1898, and quotations were recognized in other early Christian sources. The 1st or 2nd century date of the lost Greek originals behind the Coptic translations is controverted, but the manuscripts themselves are from the 3rd and 4th centuries.

In Valis, Horselover Fat believes that the Nag Hammadi Library contained the homeoplasmate. >> Zebra

In The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Bishof Archer dies in Egypt on route to the discovery site of a similiar - though fictious - scripture.

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html << The Nag Hammadi Library

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi << Wikpedia Nag Hammadi

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