The First Book of Jeu
No public-domain English translation; recommended modern edition: Violet MacDermot, *The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex* (Nag Hammadi Studies 13, Brill, 1978). Carl Schmidt's 1892 edition is German; no pre-1929 English translation of the Books of Jeu themselves is known. F. Lamplugh's 1918 *The Gnôsis of the Light* (in this corpus as `untitled-text-bruce-codex`) translates only the third tractate of the Bruce Codex, not the two Books of Jeu. · Stub entry; no text reproduced.
1**Stub.** No public-domain English translation has been imported.
**Recommended edition.**
Carl Schmidt and Violet MacDermot, *The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex* (Nag Hammadi Studies 13; Leiden: Brill, 1978). The only complete English translation; remains under copyright.
**Early editions.** Carl Schmidt, *Gnostische Schriften in koptischer Sprache aus dem Codex Brucianus* (Leipzig, 1892; German); Émile Amélineau, *Pistis-Sophia, Ouvrage gnostique de Valentin* (Paris, 1895; appendix on the Books of Jeu, French).
**Available related text in this corpus.** F. Lamplugh's 1918 *Gnôsis of the Light* (the Untitled Apocalypse from the same Bruce Codex) is imported as [Untitled Text from the Bruce Codex](/scriptures/untitled-text-bruce-codex).