Gnostic

The Carl Gustav Jung Institute purchased it in 1951. When Carl Jung died ten years later, there was a kerfuffle about who owned the codex, and it took another decade for the book to make it back to Cairo.

Library contains several texts, which were likely written in Greek (possibly as early as the first century) and later translated into Coptic—an Egyptian language related to Greek and ancient Egyptian.

A farmer named Muhammad Ali al-Samman and his brother found the jar full of books while digging for fertilizer near some caves.

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