Editing Gnostic texts (section)

===Gnostic texts preserved before 1945===
Prior to the discovery at [[Nag Hammadi]], only the following texts were available to students of Gnosticism. Reconstructions were attempted from the records of the heresiologists, but these were necessarily coloured by the motivation behind the source accounts.
* Works preserved by the Church:
** ''[[Acts of Thomas]]'' (Especially ''[[The Hymn of the Pearl]]'' or ''The Hymn of the Robe of Glory'')
** ''The [[Acts of John]]'' (Especially ''[[The Hymn of Jesus]]'')
* The [[Bruce Codex]] (purchased in 1769 by [[James Bruce]]):
** ''[[Books of Jeu|The Gnosis of the Invisible God]]'' or ''The [[Books of Jeu]]''
** ''[[The Gnosis of the Light]]'' or ''The Untitled Apocalypse''
* The [[Askew Codex]] ([[British Museum]], bought in 1784):
** ''[[Pistis Sophia]]: Books of the Savior''
* The [[Berlin Codex]] or The Akhmim Codex (found in [[Akhmim]], [[Egypt]]; bought in 1896 by Carl Reinhardt):
** ''[[The Gospel]]''
** ''[[Apocryphon of John]]''
** an [[epitome]] of the ''[[Acts of Peter]]''
** ''[[The Sophia of Jesus Christ|The Wisdom of Jesus Christ]]''
* Unknown origin:
** ''[[Secret Gospel of Mark|The Secret Gospel of Mark]]''
** ''The [[Hermetica]]''