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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.)
Indira Gandhi National Open University, known as IGNOU, is a public open & distance learning university located in Delhi, India. Named after the former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, the university was established in 1985 with a budget of ₹ 20 million, after the Parliament of India passed the Indira Gandhi National Open University Act, 1985 (IGNOU Act 1985). [4]
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.
Codex Arundel (British Library Arundel MS 263) is a bound collection of pages of notes written by Leonardo da Vinci and dating mostly from between 1480 and 1518. The codex contains a number of treatises on a variety of subjects, including mechanics and geometry. The name of the codex came from the Earl of Arundel, who acquired it in Spain in
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.
Teresa Mosque Mesa, National Library (Espagne). (1989). Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci at the National Library. Madrid: Ministry of Culture. Leonardo da Vinci: anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Codex Madrid (see index)
Few people paid attention to it until the 1970s, when a new generation of scholars of early Christianity took an increased interest in the wake of the discovery of the more famous group of early Gnostic Christian documents found at Nag Hammadi in 1945, known as the Nag Hammadi library. The "Berlin Codex" is a single-quire [4] Coptic codex bound ...
The Codex Atlanticus (Atlantic Codex) is a 12-volume, bound set of drawings and writings (in Italian) by Leonardo da Vinci, the largest single set.Its name indicates the large paper used to preserve original Leonardo notebook pages, which was used for atlases.