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She holds a scroll, he a codex, on both of which the writing is clearly legible.
The modern book descends from the codex, not the scroll, and it inherits and develops the advantages of the form.
These studies and sketches were collected into various codices and manuscripts, which are now collected by museums and individuals.
The only known surviving copy of the gospel was found in a codex, or ancient book, that dates back to the third or fourth century A.D.
The Sierra codex was a document written by the master historian and master of deception, Crassus Syra, a runaway from home disguised as a man.
Whether codex or manuscript, they were here to love real books and real words.
For a more informed assessment of Italian culture in the early Middle Ages we can now turn to the collections of ancient Latin codices in the libraries of the period.
Through the Vatican codex the text sets up an expectation that is then fulfilled in the images.
One example is this twelfth-century illumination from another Greek codex of the book of Job.
Psychomachia, an allegorical poem, is illustrated throughout, as is the case in many other codices presenting this text.
The later development of the codex (roughly corresponding to our present book format) made for greater ease of reference and portability.
Three codices survived the vandalism of Bishop Landa and these three burned around the edges.
The novelist incorrectly refers to the Nag Hammadi documents as scrolls; they are actually codices.
He suggests that they indicate that the stone vessel may have originally contained a Maya codex, or ancient book.
She peppers her recipes with citations from the ancient Aztec codices.
In AD 180 he may have known examples of the four gospels bound together in one codex.
Linguistic or numerical listing was employed and the storage media were clay tablets, papyrus codices, leather scrolls or hieroglyphics.
Like a medieval codex, the book seems laced with charms and spells, to seduce the innocent and repel the hostile.
For centuries before the codex became the normal form for the book, texts had been recorded on papyrus sheets glued together to form long rolls.
The original codex permitted digestible chunks of text to be presented on physical pages, but the electronic text is in essence pageless.