English noun: Nag Hammadi Library | |||
1. | Nag Hammadi Library (group) a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism | ||
Synonyms | Nag Hammadi | ||
Instance hypernym | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||