Source : WordNet®

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 first-hand
        knowledge of Gnosticism [syn: {Nag Hammadi Library}]