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The Founding Codex ISO Archive

The complete founding digital archive of Codex ISO: all eighteen currently published editions, supplied as separate source-aware PDFs with provenance, manuscript context and uncertainty kept visible.

Before you begin

One question.
Multiple witnesses.

The records in this collection do not all say the same thing, and they do not all come from the same community or period. The value is in reading them beside one another while keeping those differences visible.

01Read each source on its own terms02Separate manuscript evidence from later claims03Treat disagreement as part of the history
Reading path

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Read in sequence for the clearest introduction, or open any record independently.

01
Gnostic Gospels

The Gospel of Thomas

Read the complete text with provenance, manuscript context and the major scholarly uncertainties stated clearly.

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02
Gnostic Foundations

The Gospel of Philip

Read the text alongside a source dossier that separates the surviving Coptic witness from later claims about what Philip does - and does not - tell us about early Christianity.

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03
Early Christian Apocrypha

The Gospel of Mary

Read the surviving text with every major lacuna marked, plus manuscript context and the key scholarly uncertainties stated clearly.

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04
Gnostic Foundations

The Gospel of Truth

Read the substantially complete text with both surviving witnesses identified and disputed authorship kept separate from the manuscript evidence.

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05
Gnostic Gospels

Thunder, Perfect Mind

Read the complete surviving witness with its paradoxes, lacunae and manuscript context kept visible.

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06
Gnostic Gospels

The Hypostasis of the Archons

Read the complete surviving text with its alternate title, manuscript witness and damaged readings kept clear.

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07
Gnostic Gospels

On the Origin of the World

Read the complete Codex II witness without silently combining it with the separate Codex XIII fragments.

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08
Gnostic Gospels

The Dialogue of the Savior

Read the complete surviving witness with its manuscript damage and editorial signs kept visible.

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09
Gnostic Gospels

The Sophia of Jesus Christ

Read both surviving versions in full, with the manuscript gaps and witness boundaries kept clear.

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10
Gnostic Gospels

The Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter

Read the complete surviving Coptic text with its witness identity and editorial apparatus kept clear.

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11
Gnostic Gospels

The Gospel of the Egyptians

Read both complete surviving witnesses without silently filling one manuscript from the other.

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12
Gnostic Gospels

Allogenes the Stranger

Read the complete surviving witness with its damaged opening and manuscript identity kept clear.

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13
Gnostic Gospels

Three Forms of Primal Thought

Read the complete surviving witness with its source title, damaged passages and three-part structure kept clear.

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14
Gnostic Gospels

The Paraphrase of Shem

Read the full surviving witness with manuscript evidence and later interpretation kept separate.

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15
Lost Scripture

The Didache

Read the complete surviving Hoole translation with the manuscript record and later interpretation kept separate.

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16
Lost Scripture

The Epistle of Barnabas

Codex placement is kept distinct from claims about canonical status: this edition does not claim that a council removed the work from the Bible.

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17
Mystery Schools

The Odes of Solomon

This is Harris's complete surviving English Ode body: no missing passage is silently supplied.

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18
Lost Scripture

The Acts of Paul and Thecla

Tertullian's objection records a real controversy over Thecla, teaching and baptism; it does not establish the old catalogue claim of a single fourth-century suppression.

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