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The Askew Codex (a.k.a. ''Codex Askewianus'') is a parchment manuscript in quarto size of 21 x 16,5 cm now held by the British Library (BL Additional MS 5114) which contains Coptic translations of the Gnostic ''Pistis Sophia'' and parts of what G. R. S. Mead referred to as "extracts from ''The Books of the Savior''." It was purchased from the heirs of Dr. Anthony Askew by the British Museum (now British Library) in 1785. The origin is most probably from Egypt but it is not known where it was found and how this Manuscript came to England. The codex contains 178 leaves or 356 pages. The manuscript is in excellent condition but two leaves (pp. 337-344) are missing. The complete manuscript was written by two different hands. Both hands used different inks and different page numberings and a different way to mark corrections. Both writers seem to be of the same period. Until the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945, the Askew Codex was one of three surviving codices containing all of the gnostic writings that had survived until recent times; the other two being the Bruce Codex and the Berlin Codex. ==Editions== *Moritz Gotthilf Schwartze; (Pistis Sophia, opus gnosticum Valentino adiudicatum e codice manuscripto Coptico Londinensi, descripsit et latine vertit M. G. Schwartze, edidit J. H. Petermann, Berolini, 1851. ) First edition of the Coptic Text with a translation into Latin. The work of Schwartze was published postum by Petermann. *(Carl Schmidt; Koptisch-gnostische Schriften. Bd. I. Die Pistis Sophia. Die beiden Bücher des Jeû. Unbekanntes altgnostisches Werk (Leipzig), 1905. ). First German translation, with nummerous corrections of the edition of Schwartze. *(Pistis Sophia; A Gnostic Miscellany ): Being for the most part extracts from the Books of the saviour, to which are added excerpts from a cognate literature; Englished by G. R. S. Mead. London: J. M. Watkins (). English translation with an introduction and description of the manuscript. 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「Askew Codex」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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