codex
/ˈkəʊdɛks
/noun (plural codices /ˈkəʊdɪsiːz/ /ˈkɒdɪsiːz/ or codexes)
1An ancient manuscript text in book form: [in names]: the great legal compilation known as the Codex Euricianus...
- The novelist incorrectly refers to the Nag Hammadi documents as scrolls; they are actually codices.
- The only known surviving copy of the gospel was found in a codex, or ancient book, that dates back to the third or fourth century A.D.
- He suggests that they indicate that the stone vessel may have originally contained a Maya codex, or ancient book.
2An official list of medicines, chemicals, etc.Nahuatl terms written in alphabetical characters accompany the multitude of indigenous persons, places, and things listed and depicted in the codex....
- A significant group of Frankish legal codices reflects the activity of a small group of scribes presided over by the cancellarius and associated with the royal court.
- The chief judicial authorities must be clergy with advanced training in the codices of Islamic law.
Origin
Late 16th century (denoting a collection of statutes): from Latin, literally 'block of wood', later denoting a block split into leaves or tablets for writing on, hence a book.
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