NuBerea/heretical-texts

Apocryphal early Christian writings, Nag Hammadi Codices (NHC) Coptic transcriptions, and Latin texts of condemned heretics — Gnostic, Manichaean, Priscillianist, semi-Pelagian, and apocryphal material rejected by orthodox Christianity. It is the NuBerea corpus estate's home for heretical and non-canonical early Christian texts: diplomatic Coptic transcriptions of NHC tractates, English translations of New Testament apocrypha (M.R. James), and CSEL Latin editions of Priscillian, Secundinus Manichaeus, and Faustus of Riez.

The material serves scholarship on early Christian diversity, heresiology, and the formation of orthodoxy. The full technical specification (schemas, join contracts, provenance) is available in the gated SPEC.md alongside this card.

Relocation note (2026-07-17): the gnosis_nhc_eng config (English NHC translations, translator-copyright) was relocated out of this repo under the mixed-repo separation ruling. This repo now carries redistributable material only.

License and Attribution

Per-config licenses (all redistributable); card-level license: other reflects the mix:

Config	Content	License
coptic_scriptorium_nhc	NHC diplomatic Coptic transcriptions	CC BY 4.0
ecw_apocryphal_eng	Apocryphal NT texts, M.R. James translation	Public domain
csel_heretical_lat	Priscillian, Secundinus Manichaeus, Faustus of Riez	CC BY-SA 4.0

Sources:

• CopticScriptorium project — https://copticscriptorium.org — CC BY 4.0 (Coptic diplomatic transcriptions of NHC tractates)
• EarlyChristianWritings.com — M.R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament (public domain translation; supplementary texts under respective open licenses)
• Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum via the Open Greek and Latin project — https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/csel-dev — CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Priscillian: CSEL vol. 18, ed. Georg Schepps (1889)
  • Secundinus Manichaeus: CSEL vol. 25.2, ed. Joseph Zycha (1892)
  • Faustus of Riez, De Gratia: CSEL vol. 21, ed. August Engelbrecht (1891)

The csel_heretical_lat config is a derivative of CC BY-SA 4.0 material and is distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (attribution and share-alike required). Extracted and packaged by the NuBerea project (2026).