Begun in 1974 at Université Laval (Quebec, Canada), the project of editing the Nag Hammadi Coptic library is the only important francophone initiative devoted to these manuscripts; its goal is to produce critical editions of these texts, accompanied with French translations and explanatory commentaries.
The manuscripts, which are kept at the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo, are available in a photographic edition produced under the authority of UNESCO and of the Antiquities Service of the Arab Republic of Egypt; this edition reproduces the papyrus leaves as they are.
The core of the Laval team is formed of many researchers who are the heart of a network including several Canadians and foreign collaborators. About thirty Quebecers and foreign scholars will have contributed to the Laval project by the time it is finished.
Édition des textes de Nag Hammadi, Pavillon Jean-Charles-Bonenfant, Bureau 4392, Université Laval, Québec (Qc) Canada G1V 0A6
Phone : +1(418) 656-2131 ext. 4743
Fax: +1(418) 656-3273
E-mail : louis.painchaud@ftsr.ulaval.ca
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Pavillon Jean-Charles-Bonenfant, Bureau 4392, Université Laval, Québec (Qc) Canada G1V 0A6