Gnostic / Alternative Early Christian

Gospels.net public-domain Mark M. Mattison translation loaded; older excerpt remains as a separate legacy version

Full public-domain translation indexed by saying for hidden knowledge, kingdom language, self-knowledge, ritual critique, Mary, James, and Gnostic Jesus comparison.

public-domain G. R. S. Mead 1921 translation loaded via Internet Sacred Text Archive

Indexed for Sophia, the mysteries of the Light, aeons, archons, soul judgment, ascent, repentance, and Mary Magdalene's questions.

Gospels.net public-domain Mark M. Mattison translation loaded

Indexed for Mary Magdalene, visionary knowledge, the soul's ascent, powers, Peter's objection, Levi's defense, and authority conflict.

Gospels.net public-domain Mark M. Mattison translation loaded

Indexed for names, bridal chamber, baptism, Eucharist, resurrection, Mary Magdalene, wisdom, hidden union, and Valentinian sacramental language.

Gospels.net public-domain Mark M. Mattison translation loaded

Indexed for ignorance, Error, knowledge of the Father, fullness, the living book, the Word, rest, return, and Valentinian salvation language.

Gospels.net public-domain Mark M. Mattison translation loaded

Indexed for post-resurrection revelation, James and Peter, hidden books, being filled, the cross, prophecy, knowledge, ascent, and salvation language.

Gospels.net public-domain Mark M. Mattison translation loaded

Indexed for Judas, secret revelation, Barbelo, Saklas, stars, rulers, baptism critique, sacrifice critique, Judas's vision, and betrayal traditions.

Other Gospels / Samuel Zinner public-domain Nag Hammadi Initiative translation loaded; separate Davies harmonized translation not included

Indexed across Codex II, Codex IV, Berlin Codex, and Codex III witnesses for the Monad, Barbelo, Sophia's error, Yaltabaoth, archons, Adam and Eve, souls, and the revealer's descent.

Manuscript is PD by age; British Library asserts rights on its own photography — confirm the BL image's reuse terms (BL has released many images as Public Domain Mark, but verify this item) before archiving

The Askew Codex (British Library, Add MS 5114) is the sole witness for pistis-sophia (corpus version Mead 1921, PD). IMAGE LEAD: the BL collection-items page + BL Digitised Manuscripts viewer; confirm the specific image's reuse status (BL Public Domain Mark vs restricted) before archiving a sidecar (ingest=false), institution credit The British Library. Mead's 1921 translation is already the corpus text; only an image is needed.

Codex is PD by age; specific photographs may carry institutional/photographer rights — verify per image; prefer Commons PD-art reproductions

The Berlin Codex (Papyrus Berolinensis 8502), Agyptisches Museum Berlin, is the principal witness for gospel-of-mary and one witness for apocryphon-of-john (BG version). IMAGE LEAD: Wikimedia Commons reproductions of BG 8502 pages (PD-art) — verify license + direct URL per file before archiving (ingest=false), institution credit Agyptisches Museum / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The task lead gospels.net/mary is a modern site (its own layout/translation content is likely copyrighted) — use only as a pointer, not an image source.

RIGHTS CAUTION — Codex Tchacos photography is closely controlled (National Geographic Society / Maecenas Foundation); most available images are copyrighted. Do NOT archive without explicit permission

gospel-of-judas is witnessed by Codex Tchacos, whose conservation/photography was done under National Geographic with controlled rights — unlike the older PD-by-age codices, clean reusable images are scarce. Treat as EXCLUDE pending permission. OVERALL RECOMMENDATION for this task: run a focused image-archiving pass that (per text above) verifies each Wikimedia Commons / institutional file's license + direct URL, then archives sidecars with ingest=false and relationships to the listed text slugs and topics (e.g., demiurge, archons, sophia/divine-feminine, forbidden-knowledge). No sidecars archived this run because none of the four institutions exposes a clean open-access image API and per-file rights must be confirmed first.

Underlying codices are PD by age; museum/photographer rights on specific photos vary — prefer Wikimedia Commons faithful 2D reproductions (PD-art) with per-file license verified

AUDIT: all 8 target texts already indexed (PD): gospel-of-thomas (Codex II), gospel-of-philip (Codex II), gospel-of-truth (Codex I), secret-book-of-james (Codex I), apocryphon-of-john (Codices II/III/IV + Berlin), pistis-sophia (Askew Codex), gospel-of-mary (Berlin Codex), gospel-of-judas (Codex Tchacos). No text import needed. IMAGE LEADS — Coptic Museum, Cairo holds Nag Hammadi Codices I-XIII; the most reusable images are Wikimedia Commons faithful reproductions of codex pages (e.g., the Gospel of Thomas incipit / Apocryphon of John opening in Codex II), which Commons treats as public domain (PD-art, 2D reproduction of a PD work). RECOMMENDED SIDECARS (archive after verifying each Commons file's license + getting the direct upload.wikimedia.org URL, ingest=false, relation source_witness): link Codex II page -> gospel-of-thomas + gospel-of-philip + apocryphon-of-john; Codex I page -> gospel-of-truth + secret-book-of-james. Institution credit: Coptic Museum, Cairo. NOT archived this run — each file's rights need per-image verification (no clean open-access image API for these codices).