nag hammadi

Nag Hammadi
    n 1: a town in Upper Egypt
    2: 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 [syn: {Nag Hammadi}, {Nag Hammadi Library}]