codexnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkəʊ.deks/us/ˈkoʊ.deks/plural codices uk/-dɪ.siːz/usspecializedan ancient book that was written by hand
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Books: kinds of books
- abridge
- annual
- anthology
- audiobook
- autobiography
- backlist
- bestiary
- e-reader
- exercise book
- fiction
- flipback
- folio
- glossy
- manuscript
- novella
- page-turner
- paperback
- photo album
- picture book
- travelogue
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Examples from literature
- But no one of these codices bore any incontestable mark of its age.
- Referring to the codex the reader will observe at the bottom of each plate and directly under—that is to say, in the same vertical lines as the day columns—two lines of red numerals.
- There is a codex in the Vatican and another at Barcelona.