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Nag Hammadi Codex XIII (designated by siglum NHC XIII) is a papyrus codex with a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts in Coptic (Sahidic dialect). The manuscript is dated to the 4th century. == Description == The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a codex. It is written in Sahidic dialect.〔Bentley Layton, (''Nag Hammadi codex II, 2-7: together with XIII, 2 *, Brit. Lib. Or.4926(1), and P.OXY. 1, 654, 655 : with contributions by many scholars'' ), BRILL, 1989, p. 2.〕〔John D. Turner, ''Nag Hammadi Codex XIII'', in: Elaine H. Pagels, Charles W. Hedrick, (''Nag Hammadi codices, XI, XII, XIII'' ), BRILL, 1990, p. 363.〕 The codex contains: ''Trimorphic Protennoia'' and ''On the Origin of the World''.〔John D. Turner, ''Nag Hammadi Codex XIII'', in: Elaine H. Pagels, Charles W. Hedrick, ''Nag Hammadi codices, XI, XII, XIII'', BRILL, 1990, p. 359.〕 It is the only surviving copy of the ''Trimorphic Protennoia''.〔John Turner, ''The Nag Hammadi Library in English'', HarperOne, 1990, ISBN 0-06-066935-7, pp. 511-512.〕 The text is written in uncial letters. It is well written in an informal book hand. There is no punctuation, no division between sayings. The nomina sacra are contracted in an unusual way (ΠΝΑ, XΣ, XPΣ, IHΣ), the words at the end of line are abbreviated.〔Gesine Schenke, (''Die dreigestaltige protennoia (Nag-Hammadi-Codex XIII)'' ), Walter de Gruyter (1984), p. 13. ISBN 3-11-017385-9〕 The scribe is identical with the scribe A of Codex II. The scribe employed several styles.〔Bentley Layton, (''Nag Hammadi codex II, 2-7: together with XIII, 2 *, Brit. Lib. Or.4926(1), and P.OXY. 1, 654, 655 : with contributions by many scholars'' ), BRILL, 1989, p. 4.〕 The scribe made several errors of haplography (omitted letter N in 38.7; 48.28; omitted OY 40.18; omitted T in 48.15) and dittography (42.26; 45.31).〔Gesine Schenke, ''Die dreigestaltige protennoia (Nag-Hammadi-Codex XIII)'', Walter de Gruyter (1984), pp. 8-9. ISBN 3-11-017385-9〕 The so-called "Codex XIII" is in fact not a codex, but rather the text of ''Trimorphic Protennoia'', written on "... eight leaves removed from a thirteenth book in late antiquity and tucked inside the front cover of the sixth."〔 Robinson, James M., ''The Nag Hammadi Library'', HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1988, p. 10. 〕〔John D. Turner, ''Nag Hammadi Codex XIII'', in: Elaine H. Pagels, Charles W. Hedrick, (''Nag Hammadi codices, XI, XII, XIII'' ), BRILL, 1990, p. 401.〕 Only a few lines from the beginning of ''Origin of the World'' are discernible on the bottom of the eighth leaf. It was buried with the other Nag Hammadi Codices, where it lay until to the day of its discovery in 1945.〔 On June 8th, 1952 the Coptic Museum received the codex. The text of the codex was edited by Gesine Schenke.〔Gesine Schenke, (''Die dreigestaltige protennoia (Nag-Hammadi-Codex XIII)'' ), Walter de Gruyter (1984), pp. 26-68. ISBN 3-11-017385-9〕 It was examined and described by James J. Robinson in 1979.〔Bentley Layton, ''Nag Hammadi codex II, 2-7: together with XIII, 2 *, Brit. Lib. Or.4926(1), and P.OXY. 1, 654, 655 : with contributions by many scholars'', BRILL, 1989, p. 5.〕 Currently the manuscript is housed at the Department of manuscripts of the Coptic Museum (Inv. 10545) in Cairo.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nag Hammadi Codex XIII」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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