codex
codex
Definition
co·dex (kō′deks′)
noun pl. co′·di·ces′kō′də sēz′, käd′ə-
- Obsolete a code, or body of laws
- a manuscript volume, esp. of the Scriptures or of a classic text
Etymology: L: see code
codex
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- produce: Also, if they had already assembled the whole Koran, why was it so hard to produce a codex?
- survive: In each of these studies, the analysis of booklists and surviving codices has opened up hidden communities sharing reading and ideas.
- know: Both have suffered here and there from variant readings in the early codices known to us but neither has in any way been corrupted.
- have: Had the codex already been developed for such serious use, it is unlikely that such experimentation would have been necessary.
Adjective modifier
- Aztec: Use the Links page to find other places on the World Wide Web where there are Aztec codices showing the Aztec counting system.
- medieval: CE, providing Greek witnesses about 600 years older than the medieval Hebrew codices.
- single: When was the Qur'an collected into a single codex?
- early: The earlier codices are written in one column rather than two.
- old: The oldest Masoretic codices stem from the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 10th.
- other: There would also have had to be no evidences to show that other codices, differing from the standard text, had ever existed.
Modifies a noun
- standard: Codex standards were not a great success during this period.
- book: Codex book form structures historically have very formal attributes.
- form: Codex book form structures historically have very formal attributes.
- sinaiticus: Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Ephraemi, Codex Regius Whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another commits adultery.
- alimentarius: It provides information on emerging food safety concerns, the codex alimentarius, and outlines the HACCP approach to food safety.
- format: Traditionally, high-quality discourse in the West has been disseminated as print on paper bound in the codex format but this is relatively inflexible.
Noun used with modifier
- papyrus: Linguistic or numerical listing was employed and the storage media were clay tablets, papyrus codices, leather scrolls or hieroglyphics.
- century: The great 4th century NT codices are still in pristine condition today.
- manuscript: The nearest analogy to this miniature in medieval Armenian art is the one in the Matenadaran manuscript codex 7739 ( dated 1001 ).
- Dresden: It is the standard b&w reference on the Dresden codex, produced in 1930.
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