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The Codex Gigas, 13th century, Bohemia. The codex (pl.: codices / ˈ k oʊ d ɪ s iː z /) [1] was the historical ancestor format of the modern book.Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text.
The Codex Gigas opened to the page with the distinctive portrait of the Devil from which the text received its byname, the Devil's Bible. [1]The Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). [2]
For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology, a "codex" is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages. (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.)
Reims gospel book. Codicology (/ ˌ k oʊ d ɪ ˈ k ɒ l ə dʒ i /; [1] from French codicologie; from Latin codex, genitive codicis, "notebook, book" and Greek-λογία, -logia) is the study of codices or manuscript books. It is often referred to as "the archaeology of the book," [2] a term coined by François Masai.
The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book) in quarto volume, written on 759 leaves of fine and thin vellum (sized 27 cm by 27 cm, although originally bigger), [6] in uncial letters, arranged in quires of five sheets or ten leaves each, similar to Codex Marchalianus or Codex Rossanensis; but unlike Codex Sinaiticus which has an ...
A codex is composed of many books (librorum); a book is of one scroll (voluminis). It is called codex by way of metaphor from the trunks ( caudex ) of trees or vines, as if it were a wooden stock, because it contains in itself a multitude of books, as it were of branches.
Maya codices (sg.: codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. The folding books are the products of professional scribes working under the patronage of deities such as the Tonsured Maize God and the Howler Monkey Gods. The codices have been named for the cities ...
The Latin word codex, meaning a book in the modern sense (bound and with separate leaves), originally meant "block of wood". [ 3 ] An avid reader or collector of books is a bibliophile , or colloquially a "bookworm".