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Codex   Listen
noun
Codex  n.  (pl. codices)  
1.
A book, especially an early form of book with pages stitched together, contrasting with the earlier scrolls; a manuscript; as, a DaVinci codex.
2.
A collection or digest of laws; a code(senses 2 or 4). (archaic)
3.
An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament.
4.
A collection of canons.





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"Codex" Quotes from Famous Books



... mid-volley,—or hope with good ground to do it. Hope, we say; for the King is in his own and his people's eyes, to some indefinite extent, always himself the supreme ultimate Interpreter, and grand living codex, of the Laws,—always to some indefinite extent;—and there remains for a subject man nothing but the appeal to PHILIP SOBER, in some rash cases! On the whole, however, Friedrich Wilhelm is by no ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume V. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... They have the typical characters of vermin; unproductive activity combined with disproportionate destructiveness. Just as a rat will gnaw his way through a Holbein panel, or shred up the Vatican Codex to make a nest, so the professional criminal will melt down priceless medieval plate to sell in lumps for a few shillings. ...
— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman
... Spinbronn figure no longer in the "Codex";[1] in this poor village one no longer sees anyone but a few miserable woodcutters, and, sad to say, Dr. Haselnoss ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne
... Marbodius's narrative a passage very worthy of notice, viz., that in which the monk of Corrigan describes Dante Alighieri such as we picture him to ourselves to-day. The miniatures in a very old manuscript of the "Divine Comedy," the "Codex Venetianus," represent the poet as a little fat man clad in a short tunic, the skirts of which fall above his knees. As for Virgil, he still wears the philosophical beard, in the wood-engravings ...
— Penguin Island • Anatole France
... Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes y Regidores de Mexico. Codex en Geroglificos Mexicanos y en lengua Castellana y Azteca. First published at Madrid, 1878. A specimen of the map, "Carte Geographique Azteque," is given by Professor Leon de Rosny, in Les Documents Ecrit de l'Antiquite Americaine, ...
— Aboriginal American Authors • Daniel G. Brinton


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