The Gospel of Bartholomew is a missing text amongst the New Testament apocrypha

New Testament apocrypha

The New Testament apocrypha are a number of writings by early Christians that claim to be accounts of Jesus and his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles and of their lives. These writings often have links with books regarded as "canonical"...

, mentioned in several early sources. It may be identical to either the Questions of Bartholomew

Questions of Bartholomew

The Questions of Bartholomew is not to be confused with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, although either text may be the missing Gospel of Bartholomew , a lost work from the New Testament apocrypha....

, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (by Bartholomew)

Resurrection of Jesus Christ (by Bartholomew)

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not to be confused with the Questions of Bartholomew, although either text may be the missing Gospel of Bartholomew , a lost work from the New Testament apocrypha....

, or neither.

Early source references to the Gospel of Bartholomew:

In the prologue to his commentary on Matthew, Jerome

Jerome

Saint Jerome was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of Stridon, which was on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia...

 mentions a "Gospel of Bartholomew" among several other apocryphal gospels.

The author of the Decretum Gelasianum

Decretum Gelasianum

The so-called Decretum Gelasianum or Gelasian Decree was traditionally attributed to the prolific Pope Gelasius I, bishop of Rome 492–496. In surviving manuscripts the Decretal exists on its own and also appended to a list of books of Scripture titled as attested as canonical by a Council of...

includes "the Gospels in the name of Bartholomew" in a list of condemned or unacceptable scriptures.