A codex (Latin for book; plural codices) is a handwritten book from late Antiquity or the Early Middle Ages. Although the Romans used the codex and similar precursors made of wood for taking notes and other informal writings, the first recorded use of the codex for literary works dates from the late first century, when Martial experimented with the format. At that time, the roll (also called a scroll) was the dominant medium for literary works and would remain dominant for secular works until the 4th century. As far back ...

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Codex Zamoscianus is the oldest extant manuscript copy of the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia. It is written on parchment and dates from the end of the 13th century. The codex is incomplete with the text of the Chronicle ending in the 23rd chapter. The Codex Zamoscianus is presently in the Polish National Library in Warsaw. Other related archives13th century, Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Warsaw, codex, manuscript, parchment

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The Codex Mendoza is a painted document from the 1540s. It was painted after the Spanish conquest of Mexico by Aztec scribes in the ancient pictorial format. After it was painted, a scribe added written descriptions and text in Spanish. Other central-Mexican manuscripts: Codex Borgia, a pre-Columbian manuscript with many colorful images Ramirez Codex, by an anonymous Aztec after the conquest, in European characters Florentine Codex, a history of "New Spain" by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590): Codex Borbonicu ...

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The Bruce Codex (also called the Codex Brucianus) is a gnostic manuscript acquired by the British Museum. In 1769, Lord James Bruce purchased the codex in Thebes in Upper Egypt. It was transferred to the museum with a number of other Oriental texts in 1842. It currently resides in the Bodleian Library, where it has been since 1848. Bruce Codex - Related Links. The Gnostic Society Library - The Bruce Codex ...

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The songs are compiled in what the students refer to as the codex, which contains the club anthems of most student organisations and hundreds of songs in various languages, such as Dutch, French, English, German, Latin and Afrikaans. They usually have easy and familiar melodies. Nearly all of the songs predate World War II and refer to either drinking, the student's (love) life or the history and past of the home country, city or region. For this reason, some songs are typically sung more by students of one city or another, e.g. students fro ...

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Codex Claromontanus is a 6th-century manuscript in an uncial hand on vellum of the Epistles of Paul and the Epistle to the Hebrews in Greek and Latin on facing pages (thus a "diglot" manuscript, like Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis). It was named by Theodore Beza because he procured it in the town of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Oise, in the Picardie region north of Paris. The ...

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The Codex Florentinus, formerly the Codex Pisanus, is a 6th century Byzantine copy of the Pandects of Emperor Justinian, (Justiniani Augusti Digestorum seu Pandectarum), the digest of laws assembled under his direction. Its names reflect the fact that it was conserved in Pisa before it came to the Laurentian Library in Florence. The Codex is bilingual, written in Greek with a Latin translation, shortly after 533 A.D. During Justinian's time, it was certainly still possible to write codices in both imperial languag ...

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The Codex Theodosianus (Book of Theodosius) was a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Theodosius II in 429 and the compilation was published in 438. The Codex decreed that pagan schools, temples, and games were forbidden, so that pagans would no longer have the opportunity to sin; "...the pleasures of the theaters and games are to be kept from the people in all cities, and all the thoughts of Christians a ...

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The Codex Regius is an Icelandic manuscript (See also Codex) which is thought to have been written in the 1270s, but many of the poems and stories contained in it pre-date the conversion of Scandinavia to Christianity in the late tenth century. It was found by the bishop of Skálholt, Brynjólfur Sveinsson in 1643 and was presented to King Frederick III of Denmark. Snorri Sturluson's Younger Edda (also known as the Prose Edda) makes numerous references to verses contained in it, and most of the poetry in the Elder Edda (also kno ...

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The Aleppo Codex (the Keter ("Crown") Aram Tzova) is the oldest known complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, although parts of it are currently missing and there exist scrolls of individual books of the Tanakh which are much older (see Dead Sea scrolls). Thus the Aleppo Codex is the most authoritative source document for both the biblical text and its vocalization and cantillation. It is also considered the most authoritative document in the masorah ("transmission"), the tradition by which the Hebrew Scriptures have been preserved from ...

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The Codex Bezae Cantabrigensis (Gregory-Aland no. D or 05) is one of the five most important surviving early Greek New Testament manuscripts. It is a fifth- or sixth-century manuscript in an uncial hand on vellum, which contains an older (perhaps the oldest) version of the four canonical Gospels, in the unusual order Matthew, John, Luke and Mark, of which only Luke is complete; after some missing pages the MS picks up with the Third Epistle of John and contains part of Acts. The Greek left-hand pages face Latin right-han ...

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Codex Petropolitanus simply means a Saint Petersburg Codex. It may refer to: New Testament manuscript N (022) from the 6th century, written in uncial (majuscule) script with silver ink on purple parchment. The bulk of the manuscript is in the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg. Other leaves are preserved in the British Library in London, the Byzantine museum in Thessaloniki, the Vatican, Lerma/Alessandria in Italy, Patmos, and the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. An Old Testam

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The Codex Leicester is a collection of largely scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. It is named after Thomas Coke, later the 1st Earl of Leicester, who purchased it in 1717. The Codex provides a rare insight into the inquiring mind of the definitive Renaissance artist, scientist and thinker as well as an exceptional illustration of the link between art and science and the creativity of the scientific process. The manuscript does not take the form of a single linear script, but is rather a mixture of Leonardo's obser ...

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The Codex Cumanicus was a linguistic manual of the Middle Ages, presumably designed to help Catholic missionaries to the Kipchaks. It is currently housed in the Library of St. Mark, in Venice (Cod. Mar. Lat. DXLIX). Codex Cumanicus - Origin and Content. The Codex likely developed over time. Mercantile, political and religious leaders, particularly in Hungary, sought effective communication with the Cumans from the time of their ascendency in the mid-eleventh century CE. As Italian city-states such as Genoa ...

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Codex Sinaiticus (London, Brit. Libr., Add. 43725; Gregory-Aland no. א (Aleph) or 01) is a 4th century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible. Originally containing the whole of both Testaments, only portions of the Greek Old Testament or Septuagint survive along with a complete New Testament, the Epistle of Barnabas and portions of Hermas. Written between 330-350, it is sometimes associated with the 50 copies of the scriptures commisioned by Roman Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. Along with Codex ...

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Codex Hierosolymitanus (the "Jerusalem Codex", often designated simply "H" in scholarly discourse) is an 11th-century Greek book, written by an unknown scribe named Leo, who dated it 1056. Its designation of "Jerusalem" recalls its current resting-place, the library of the Patriarchate at Jerusalem in 1887, where it remains in the monastery of the Holy Sepulchre. The codex contains the Didache, the Epistle of Barnabas, the two epistles 1 Clement and 2 Clement, and the long version of the letters of Ignatius ...

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The Codex Alimentarius (Latin = “food law” or “food code”) is controversial project organized to promote international standardization of food safety and for the stated purpose of consumer protection. Officially, it is maintained by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a body established jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Health Organization (WHO) in the years 1961-1962 to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the international food trade. The Codex ...

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The Manesse Codex or Grosse Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg Library, Cod. Pal. germ. 848) is a book copied and illustrated between 1305-1340 in Zürich, presumably compiled by Johannes Hadlaub. It contains love songs in Middle High German by important poets, several of whom were famous rulers. The term for these poets, Minnesänger, combines the words for "romantic love" and "singer", reflecting the content of the poetry, which adapted the Provençal troubador tradition to Germ

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