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Pistis Sophia

Pistis Sophia (Codex Askewianus) · Anonymous (Gnostic revelation dialogue) · 4th century (Askew Codex, British Library) · apocryphon · CMCL cc0687; ECCA 643; CANT 28

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

translated. A complete English translation exists. This dossier is included as a control, not as a gap; it shows what the register counts as translated.

Why this is in the register

Complete English translations exist: G. R. S. Mead (1896, text at http://www.gnosis.org/library/pistis-sophia/index.htm), George Horner (1924), and Violet MacDermot, Pistis Sophia (Nag Hammadi Studies 9, Leiden: Brill, 1978), the standard modern version; NASSCAL e-Clavis (ECCA 643, CANT 28) lists MacDermot's as the modern English translation based on Schmidt's 1925 edition (https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/pistis-sophia/). HOLLIS 'Pistis Sophia MacDermot' returns the Brill volume (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Pistis%20Sophia%20MacDermot&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Coptic Scriptorium's 28 TEI parts name Mead (1896) and Horner (1924) as translations for the opening books and 'none' for most parts (no aligned translation).

Included as a coverage check: the domain brief names Pistis Sophia, and it is the one major Coptic apocryphon with a modern standard English translation (MacDermot 1978). The 106,389-word extent is the sum of the 28 Coptic Scriptorium TEI parts.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Pistis Sophia · G. R. S. Mead · 1896
Pistis Sophia · George Horner · 1924
Pistis Sophia · Nag Hammadi Studies 9 · Violet MacDermot · 1978

Electronic text

Source and licence
Coptic Scriptorium · TEI XML · CC-BY 4.0
urn:cts:copticLit:pistissophia.1.petermann:1-13

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: "Pistis Sophia" — 73 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
Pistis Sophia
· 1925 · grc
"Pistis Sophia." Hauniae : Gyldendal, Nordisk forlag, 1925. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990034673740203941
Pistis sophia
· 1924 · eng
"Pistis sophia." London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; New York : Macmillan, 1924. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990022447940203941
Pistis Sophia
· 1982 · spa
"Pistis Sophia." Madrid : Editorial "Tres-Catorce-Diecisiete", 1982. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990002087170203941
Pistis Sophia
· 1978 · eng
"Pistis Sophia." Leiden : Brill, 1978. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990008521100203941
Pistis Sophia : a Gnostic gospel (with extracts from the books of the Saviour appended) originally tr. from Greek into Coptic and now for the first time Englished from Schwartze's Latin version of the only known Coptic ms. and checked by Amélineau's French version with an introduction by G.R.S. Mead
· 1896 · eng
"Pistis Sophia : a Gnostic gospel (with extracts from the books of the Saviour appended) originally tr. from Greek into Coptic and now for the first time Englished from Schwartze's Latin version of the only known Coptic ms. and checked by Amélineau's French version with an introduction by G.R.S. Mead." London ; New Yo…

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Pistis Sophia” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-anonymous-pistis-sophia