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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.
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.)
Page from Codex Sinaiticus with text of Matthew 6:4–32 Alexandrinus – Table of κεφάλαια (table of contents) to the Gospel of Mark. The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible (Old and New Testament) in Greek.
Mushaf (Arabic: مُصْحَف, romanized: muṣḥaf, IPA:; plural مَصَاحِف, maṣāḥif) is an Arabic word for a codex or collection of sheets, but also refers to a written copy of the Quran. [1]
Minor nit: in this article, we use "cryptexes" as the plural for cryptex. However since it is a portmanteau of cryptology and codex, one would assume it pluralises the same way as codex, i.e. "codices" (pron. "ko d' seez"). As Dan Brown coined the word, I guess he also gets to invent the plural; however, I do not recall seeing it in plural in ...
Codex Monacensis (plural Monacenses) is the designation of several codices housed at the Bavarian State Library in Munich (German: München Latin: Monacum). These include: These include: Codex Latinus Monacensis (clm), several related Vetus Latina manuscripts
Codex (Warhammer 40,000), a rules supplement to the tabletop wargame; Codex, by Lev Grossman (2005) The Codex, by Douglas Preston (2004) "Codex", song by Pere Ubu from Dub Housing "Codex", song by Radiohead from The King of Limbs; Codex, a UK quiz show; Codex, a fictional character from the web series The Guild
The phrase is a possible survival of Hebrew Polytheism, in which the Elohists refer to the Divine in a plural (ʾĔlōhīm). [4] In the Pentateuch, the Bənē hāʾĔlōhīm form the Divine council, comparable to the "sons of God" in Canaanite religion. [5] In the latter, the "sons" are gods or manifestations of the Divine. [6]