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2. List of codices - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of notable codices. 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.)

3. List of novels by Douglas Preston - Wikipedia

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   The Codex is a thriller novel by Douglas Preston. It takes place in the Southwestern United States and Central America. The book was published on December 8, 2003, by Tor Books. Maxwell Broadbent, an eccentric rich man with terminal cancer, has spent his entire life collecting valuable art and treasures from around the world.

4. Codex - Wikipedia

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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.

5. Furies of Calderon - Wikipedia

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   Furies of Calderon is the first novel in the high fantasy series Codex Alera by Jim Butcher. The novel was first released by Ace Books in the United States as a Hardcover edition on October 5, 2004, followed by a Paperback edition on June 26, 2005. Orbit Books released a paperback edition in the United Kingdom in December 2009. It tells the ...

6. Great uncial codices - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Codex (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   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

8. Codex Alexandrinus - Wikipedia

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   The manuscript is a codex (the forerunner to the modern book) made from 773 thin, fine, and very beautiful vellum folios (specific name for pages in a codex: 630 in the Old Testament and 143 in the New Testament) measuring 12.6 × 10.4 inches (32 × 26 cm), bound in quarto format (parchment leaves placed on top of each other, folded in half ...

9. Maya codices - Wikipedia

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   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 ...