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I recall Markus Vinzent saying that we have identified over 40 Gospels, but I'm not sure of the source for this claim. Is this correct? Is there some other estimate of how many Gospels have been identified?

Looking for sources, especially the source where Vinzent claims there to be over 40 known Gospels.

Canonical Gospels
1. Gospel of Matthew
2. Gospel of Mark
3. Gospel of Luke
4. Gospel of John
Apocryphal Gospels
5. Gospel of Judas Thomas
6. Gospel of Peter
7. Gospel of Mary (Mary Magdalene)
8. Gospel of Philip
9. Gospel of the Egyptians
10. Gospel of the Hebrews
11. Infancy Gospel of Thomas
12. Protoevangelium of James
13. Gospel of the Nazarenes
14. Gospel of the Ebionites
15. Gospel of Judas
16. Gospel of the Twelve
17. Gospel of Truth
18. Gospel of Bartholomew
19. Gospel of Nicodemus (Acts of Pilate)
20. Gospel of the Lots of Mary
21. Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
22. Gospel of the Savior (Gospel of the Unknown)
23. Gospel of the Birth of Mary
Heretical or Sectarian Gospels
24. Gospel of Marcion
25. Gospel of Basilides
26. Gospel of Mani
27. Gospel of Cerinthus
28. Gospel of the Encratites
29. Gospel of the Valentinians
30. Gospel of the Adversaries of the Law and the Prophets
31. Gospel of Eve
32. Gospel of Perfection
33. Gospel of the Four Heavenly Realms
34. Gospel of Matthias
35. Gospel of Apelles
36. Gospel of Bardesanes
37. Gospel of the Gnostics
38. Gospel of the Nazoraeans
39. Gospel of the Scythians
40. Gospel of the Docetists
Lost or Fragmentary Gospels (Referenced but Not Extant)
41. Gospel of the Encratites
42. Gospel of Cerdo
43. Gospel of Thaddaeus
44. Gospel of Barnabas (not to be confused with the later medieval Islamic Gospel of Barnabas)
45. Gospel of the Four Regions (also known as the Gospel of the Four Corners)

Yeah something like 40 gospels.

There's two Gospels of the Egyptians

1. a Greek one cited in Clement of Alexandria's Stromata & mentioned in the Refutation of All Heresies, and
   • The known fragments of text takes the form of a discussion - a traditional early Christian duologue - between the disciple Salome and Jesus, who advocates celibacy, or, more accurately, 'sexual asceticism,' as the means of breaking the lethal cycle of birth and of overcoming the alleged sinful differences between male and female, enabling all persons to return to what was understood to be their primordial and androgynous state.
2. a Coptic one, aka the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit,
   • which outlines an understanding of creation the universe and the origin of the three powers, the Father, the Mother, and the Son from a/the great invisible Spirit; and how Seth, the son of the incorruptible man Adamas, was sent to save 'the race' through a baptism through a Logos-begotten body and is incarnated as Jesus in order to release people's souls from the evil prison that is creation, etc.

The Gospel of the Nazarenes is a hypothetical gospel which may or may not be the same as, or derived from, the Gospel of the Hebrews or the canonical Gospel of Matthew (or perhaps an earlier version of it). The title Gospel of the Nazarenes is a neologism as it was not mentioned in the Catalogues of the Early Church nor by any of the Church Fathers. Its purported existence is based on allusions to it in commentaries from various Church Fathers including Clement, Hegesippus, Origen, Eusebius, Epiphanius and Jerome (especially Jerome) +/- notations or alleged quotations by them.

It is probably the same as the hypothetical Gospel of the Nazoraeans.

And maybe the same as the so-called 'Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew'

A reconstruction has been made https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Nazaraeans