Codex
noun
A book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials, with hand-written content.
The ancient codex was filled with hand-scripted poems.
Often appears as...
- ancient codex
- biblical codex
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Academic
noun
A document with a set of laws or rules.
The criminal codex contained all the laws related to unlawful activities.
Often appears as...
- legal codex
- criminal codex
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Formal
Technical
noun
In the field of computing, a codex is a method used to encode or decode data.
The video file used an unknown codex, making it impossible to play.
Often appears as...
- video codex
- audio codex
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Technical
noun
A book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials, with hand-written content.
The ancient codex was filled with hand-scripted poems.
Often appears as...
- ancient codex
- biblical codex
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A document with a set of laws or rules.
The criminal codex contained all the laws related to unlawful activities.
Often appears as...
- legal codex
- criminal codex
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
In the field of computing, a codex is a method used to encode or decode data.
The video file used an unknown codex, making it impossible to play.
Often appears as...
- video codex
- audio codex
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Artifact
Refers to ancient or historical books, used often in academic or archaeological discussions.
Researchers discovered a codex that could reveal more about medieval life.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Printed
Unlike modern books, a codex is handwritten, not printed, emphasizing its uniqueness and age.
Each codex in the library was meticulously created by monks centuries ago.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Attributes
A codex is traditionally bound and has pages, distinguishing it from scrolls or tablets.
The museum's codex has fragile pages that must be carefully turned.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Artifact
Refers to ancient or historical books, used often in academic or archaeological discussions.
Researchers discovered a codex that could reveal more about medieval life.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Printed
Unlike modern books, a codex is handwritten, not printed, emphasizing its uniqueness and age.
Each codex in the library was meticulously created by monks centuries ago.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Attributes
A codex is traditionally bound and has pages, distinguishing it from scrolls or tablets.
The museum's codex has fragile pages that must be carefully turned.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Artifact
Refers to ancient or historical books, used often in academic or archaeological discussions.
Researchers discovered a codex that could reveal more about medieval life.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Printed
Unlike modern books, a codex is handwritten, not printed, emphasizing its uniqueness and age.
Each codex in the library was meticulously created by monks centuries ago.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Attributes
A codex is traditionally bound and has pages, distinguishing it from scrolls or tablets.
The museum's codex has fragile pages that must be carefully turned.
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Feats of memory anyone...
to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone -- that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. These technologies have made our modern world possible, but they've also changed us.
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The evolution of the...
Probably not. But is this? To answer these questions, we need to go back to the start of the book as we know it and understand how these elements came together to make something more than the sum of their parts. The earliest object that we think of as a book is the codex, a stack of pages bound along one edge.
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Ben Dunlap: The...
He's the author of seven books, six of them on Mayan ceramics. It was he who broke the Mayan codex, enabling scholars to relate the pictographs on Mayan ceramics to the hieroglyphs of the Mayan script. On the occasion of my first visit, we toured his house and we saw hundreds of works of museum quality,
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Why books are here to...
We go by a term called the codex, where they would have two heavy pieces of wood which become the cover, and then the pages in between would then be stitched along one side to make something that was relatively easily transportable. They all had to completely be done by hand,
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The Aztecs: From Empire...
he took a special interest in the codices i mean when you think that they destroyed all these books it just hurts but amazingly some codices are still around today held in museum collections all over the world and when i say amazingly i mean it one
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Bill Saturno: Adding...
have a sense of time coming to an end they had a sense of themselves involved with the cycles of time around them for those of you that want to see what a codex looks like this is the dresden the tables that I've just shown you could
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Germán Santillán: A...
to use chocolate as a symbol for a social union. This image was made between the 13th century and the early 16th century, and it is part of the “Zouche-Nuttall Codex.” The codex is composed of 47 painted deer skins,
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Maya Doomsday Prophecy PIPE...
reach into our own time our ancestors said that when the last days draw closer many people will die and bad things will happen a doomsday prophecy in an ancient codex speaks of floods fiery rain and
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Exo-Cannibalism PIPE...
the sun for one reason the Sun winked out of existence they knew they were dead Mexican codices illustrate victims laid over stone their hearts ritually
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Exorcising the Devil PIPE...
deciphering the Codex today the conjurations seem to support the theory of a lone scribe a single monk atoning for his sins penning the
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Feats of memory anyone...
to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone -- that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. These technologies have made our modern world possible, but they've also changed us.
Video examples
The evolution of the...
Probably not. But is this? To answer these questions, we need to go back to the start of the book as we know it and understand how these elements came together to make something more than the sum of their parts. The earliest object that we think of as a book is the codex, a stack of pages bound along one edge.
Video examples
Ben Dunlap: The...
He's the author of seven books, six of them on Mayan ceramics. It was he who broke the Mayan codex, enabling scholars to relate the pictographs on Mayan ceramics to the hieroglyphs of the Mayan script. On the occasion of my first visit, we toured his house and we saw hundreds of works of museum quality,
Video examples
Why books are here to...
We go by a term called the codex, where they would have two heavy pieces of wood which become the cover, and then the pages in between would then be stitched along one side to make something that was relatively easily transportable. They all had to completely be done by hand,
Video examples
The Aztecs: From Empire...
he took a special interest in the codices i mean when you think that they destroyed all these books it just hurts but amazingly some codices are still around today held in museum collections all over the world and when i say amazingly i mean it one
Video examples
Bill Saturno: Adding...
have a sense of time coming to an end they had a sense of themselves involved with the cycles of time around them for those of you that want to see what a codex looks like this is the dresden the tables that I've just shown you could
Video examples
Germán Santillán: A...
to use chocolate as a symbol for a social union. This image was made between the 13th century and the early 16th century, and it is part of the “Zouche-Nuttall Codex.” The codex is composed of 47 painted deer skins,
Video examples
Maya Doomsday Prophecy PIPE...
reach into our own time our ancestors said that when the last days draw closer many people will die and bad things will happen a doomsday prophecy in an ancient codex speaks of floods fiery rain and
Video examples
Exo-Cannibalism PIPE...
the sun for one reason the Sun winked out of existence they knew they were dead Mexican codices illustrate victims laid over stone their hearts ritually
Video examples
Exorcising the Devil PIPE...
deciphering the Codex today the conjurations seem to support the theory of a lone scribe a single monk atoning for his sins penning the
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Joshua Foer
American Journalist
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.
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David Roberts
During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.
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Ronen Bergman
Israeli Journalist
Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. From Tiberias, the codex was taken to Jerusalem.
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Felicia Day
American Actress
I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.
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Robert Darnton
American Historian
I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.
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Dan Brown
American Author
I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.
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John Updike
American Novelist
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
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Gary Jennings
American Author
I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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Joshua Foer
American Journalist
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.
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David Roberts
During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.
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Ronen Bergman
Israeli Journalist
Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. From Tiberias, the codex was taken to Jerusalem.
Quote examples
Felicia Day
American Actress
I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.
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Robert Darnton
American Historian
I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.
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Dan Brown
American Author
I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.
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John Updike
American Novelist
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
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Gary Jennings
American Author
I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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