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Acts of Pilate / Gospel of Nicodemus (Coptic recension)

unknown (the surviving Coptic leaves carry no title; editor's title 'Acta Pilati' from Lacau 1904) · Anonymous (Coptic recension; no author named) · manuscripts: Turin cod. II (7th/8th c.), Newark fragment (6th c.), Paris BnF Copte 129.17… · apocryphon · CMCL cc0035; ECCA 309; CANT 62

Coptic · domain: biblical-apocryphal · researched 2026-11-13

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

The NASSCAL e-Clavis entry (ECCA 309, CANT 62) lists for the Coptic version only French translations (Lacau 1904, pp. 9-14; Revillout, Patrologia Orientalis 9, 1913), Italian translations (Rossi 1887; Vandoni-Orlandi 1966) and one English article: Michael Zellman-Rohrer, 'A New Coptic Witness to the Acts of Pilate (Gospel of Nicodemus)', JTS 69 (2018): 611-27, with text and translation at pp. 626-27 of the newly identified witness only (https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/acts-of-pilate-gospel-of-nicodemus/). No complete English translation of the Coptic Acts of Pilate is listed. HOLLIS 'Acts of Pilate Coptic' returns Italian editions, Elliott's Apocryphal New Testament (Greek Acts of Pilate, pp. 165-204) and the 2025 Mohr Siebeck study volume whose Dubois chapter is a study (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Acts%20of%20Pilate%20Coptic&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The two Coptic Scriptorium TEI files declare translation 'none'.

The Coptic version is not the Greek A/B text printed in Elliott or in the standard Nicodemus editions; it survives in several independent witnesses (Turin papyrus, Newark fragment, Paris leaves) and none of them has a complete English translation. Coptic Scriptorium's two leaves (721 Coptic words) are the Paris CM 1643 fragments.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Fragments d'apocryphes coptes · Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 9 · Pierre Lacau (edition with French translation) · 1904
A New Coptic Witness to the Acts of Pilate (Gospel of Nicodemus) · Journal of Theological Studies 69 · Michael Zellman-Rohrer (text and English translation of the new witness) · 2018

Electronic text

Source and licence
Coptic Scriptorium · TEI XML · CC-BY 4.0
urn:cts:copticLit:misc.acts_pilate.lacau_ed:9

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: "Acts of Pilate Gospel of Nicodemus" — 57 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
Das Evangelium Nicodemi : in der Abendländischen literatur : Inauguraldissertation welche mit genehmigung der philosophischen facultät zu Marburg zur erlangung der doctorwürde am 29. Oktober 1872, 10 uhr öffentlich verteidigen wird
Wülker, Richard Paul, 1845-1910 · 1872 · ger
Wülker, Richard Paul, 1845-1910. "Das Evangelium Nicodemi : in der Abendländischen literatur : Inauguraldissertation welche mit genehmigung der philosophischen facultät zu Marburg zur erlangung der doctorwürde am 29. Oktober 1872, 10 uhr öffentlich verteidigen wird." Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, 1872. https://hol…
My resurrection : a missing chapter from the Gospel of Matthew
Foote, G. W. (George William), 1850-1915 · 1892 · eng
Foote, G. W. (George William), 1850-1915. "My resurrection : a missing chapter from the Gospel of Matthew." London : R. Forder, 1892. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990048471180203941
Nikodimosis apokripʻuli cignis kʻartʻuli versia
· 1985 · geo
"Nikodimosis apokripʻuli cignis kʻartʻuli versia." Tʻbilisi : "Mecʻniereba", 1985. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990004449140203941
L'Évangile de Nicodème, ou, Les actes faits sous Ponce Pilate (recension latine A) : suivi de La lettre de Pilate à l'empereur Claude
· 1997 · fre
"L'Évangile de Nicodème, ou, Les actes faits sous Ponce Pilate (recension latine A) : suivi de La lettre de Pilate à l'empereur Claude." [Turnhout, Belgium] : Brepols, c1997. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990080392590203941
't Wonderlyck Euangelium van Nicodemus : gedruckt na de alder-oudtste Copye tot Leyden, by Pieter Iansoon, onder den Toornevan Sinte Pancrasius Kerke, anno 1418 [i.e. 1478]
· 1671 · dut
"'t Wonderlyck Euangelium van Nicodemus : gedruckt na de alder-oudtste Copye tot Leyden, by Pieter Iansoon, onder den Toornevan Sinte Pancrasius Kerke, anno 1418 [i.e. 1478]." t' Rotterdam : Gedruckt by Hugo Rijck-hals, Boeck-verkooper by de roo Brugge, in de vergulde Marcurius, 1671. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permal…

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Acts of Pilate / Gospel of Nicodemus (Coptic recension)” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-anonymous-acts-pilate