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Title
Nag Hammadi codices
Creator
Doresse, Jean, 1917- (photographer)
Publication Information
Claremont Graduate University. Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, School of Religion
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Nag Hammadi Archive
Rights Information
Physical rights are retained by the institution. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. Copyright laws.
Description
The codices together in the home of Maria Dattari in Garden City,(Cairo, Egypt) On the left, the Cairo leaves of Codex I, with page 50 on the top (with page 73 below, visible in the lacuna at the left). Beneath on the right are leaves of Codex XII, with page 28 furthest to the right. The extant leaves of Codex XIII are in the center beneath the bound codices, with page 50 on top (with other pages beneath it, protruding through the lacunae and at the edge). The cover between the two stacks of exposed leaves is that of Codex XI (with a fragment of page 7 visible through the hole in the cover). The stack of bound codices on the left includes, from top to bottom, Codices II, VII, VIII, and III (from which the leaves had already been removed-the cover is padded with newspaper to provide the appropriate thickness for this photograph). The stack of bound codices on the right includes, from top to bottom, Codices V, IX, VI, IV, and X. Absent are the cover and most of the leaves of Codex I, which were at the time in the possession of Albert Eid.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
nha00001.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nha/id/1350
Subject
Manuscript studies
Nag Hammadi codices
Cartonnage (book bindings)
Case bindings (gathered matter components)
Source
Black and white photograph
Relation
Nag Hammadi Archive - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/nha

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