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The canon of Mani included six works originally written in Syriac, and one in Persian, the Shapuragan, While none of his books have survived in complete form, there are numerous fragments and quotations of them, including a long Syriac quotation from one of his works, as well as a large amount of material in Middle Persian, Coptic, and numerous other languages.

Examples of surviving portions of his works include: the Shabuhragan ( Middle Persian ), the Book of Giants ( numerous fragments in many languages ), the Fundamental Epistle ( quoted in length by Saint Augustine ), a number of fragments of his Living Gospel ( or Great Gospel ), a Syriac excerpt quoted by Theodore Bar Konai, and his Letter to Edessa contained in the Cologne Mani-Codex.