codex
[koh-deks]
- a quire of manuscript pages held together by stitching: the earliest form of book, replacing the scrolls and wax tablets of earlier times.
- a manuscript volume, usually of an ancient classic or the Scriptures.
- Archaic. a code; book of statutes.
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Origin of codex
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The codex worked a revolution in human communication, and the human understanding of the text was never the same.
Absent the codex, ideas would still be the province of a privileged priesthood.
Historical Examples
The other codex according to Torinus, was found in Transsylvania by Io.
Phillipps, 275, in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, a codex ca.
They possess emollient qualities and are official in the codex.
The Medicinal Plants of the PhilippinesT. H. Pardo de Tavera
B is the Vatican codex of about the middle of the fourth century.
Codex, only, has the (seeming) note, An Arab calls it k (or kw).
The Bbur-nma in EnglishBabur, Emperor of Hindustan
codex
- a volume, in book form, of manuscripts of an ancient text
- obsolete a legal code
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin: tree trunk, wooden block, book
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Word Origin and History for codex
n.
"manuscript volume (especially an ancient one)," 1845, from Latin codex (see code (n.)).
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