Note 647 — Chapter X · THE SYSTEM OF THE PISTIS SOPHIA AND ITS RELATED TEXTS[459]

Schmidt’s study of the Bruce Papyrus with a full text and translation was published in the Texte und Untersuchungen of von Gebhardt and Harnack under the title Gnostische Schriften in Koptischer Sprache aus dem Codex Brucianus, Leipzig, 1892. He republished the translation of this together with one of the Pistis Sophia in the series of early Greek Christian literature undertaken by the Patristic Committee of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences under the title Koptisch-Gnostische Schriften, Bd I. Leipzig, 1905. His arrangement of the papyrus leaves makes much better sense than that of Amélineau, but it is only arrived at by eliminating all passages which seem to be inconsequent and attributing them to separate works. The fragments which he distinguishes as A and B and describes as “gnostischen Gebetes,” certainly appear to form part of those which he describes as the two “books of Jeû.”