codex
IPA: koʊdˈɛks
noun
- An early manuscript book.
- A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
- An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.
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Examples of "codex" in Sentences
- Up to a third of the codex is currently illegible.
- The Aleppo codex lacks Lamentations in its entirety.
- The original codex contained 165 leaves, in the quarto size.
- Perhaps it is not minuscule codex, or the codex is not so old.
- Don't know why, but in my codex, every mention is spelled termagant.
- The 'Codex' was placed in the Ethereal Void at the end of 'Ultima VI'.
- The templar codex is the only one to call them a neophyte in the army list.
- The term codex is something of a misnomer but it has become standard usage.
- Strictly speaking, a codex is a book or manuscript in European-style format.
- He left voluminous commentaries on the Pandects and on the Codex Justinianus.
- The Archimedes Palimpsest is a palimpsest on parchment in the form of a codex.
- “My brother continues to use the word codex to describe the Shroud,” Anne said.
- In 1845 he went to Rome intending to collate the codex belonging to the Vatican.
- Reading from right to left as the codex is supposed to be read the following panel depicts George Washington and Abraham Lincoln printing erotic images in the green shade of US currency.
- In the vellum codex, though each leaf might have only one fold, and thus technically be considered as a folio, the actual shape of it was nearly square, hence its name of _codex quadratus_.
- The rest of the codex is illustrated with comic book characters, religious iconography and imagery, appropriated engravings, Mexican erotica, ethnic stereotypes, Mayan symbols and figures, automobiles, airplanes, and book excerpts.
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