codex

plural codices · plural codexes

1. An early manuscript book, especially one bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.

   Only eleven codexes form the division that is intitled CHRISTIAN I.

   1770, Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, A journey from London to Genoa, through England, Portugal, Spain, and France, page 62

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   To discover and possess Greek codexes then became the ambition of every cultured person

   1898, Bella Duffy, The Tuscan Republics (Florence, Siena, Pisa, and Lucca) with Genoa, page 335

   The great body of Old English poetry is preserved in three volumes, or codexes, of miscellaneous content

   1909, George Philip Krapp, Modern English: Its Growth and Present Use, page 26

   Sarima drew her robes about her, and traced a pattern in the cold dust on a nearby stack of codexes.

   1996, Gregory Maguire with Douglas Smith, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, page 266

   We're still learning about this cache of codexes, and one thing we've learned is that they aren't all "Gnostic" in character.

   2008, Brother Zagreus Mike Luoma, Neo-gnosis, page 96

   But by the time we reach that telescope and the imaginative gallery it introduces, we have seen things even more remarkable: ornately decorated quadrants of enameled brass, metal calipers, arcane charts, minutely inscribed maps, spheres within spheres like compass roses from other worlds, codexes and manuscripts, cylinders, dials, rings, rods and boxes.

   2009 April 3, Edward Rothstein, “The Cosmos, Surveyed”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

2. medicineAn official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

   the French codex

   Synonyms: pharmacopoeia