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What is a codex?

What is a codex? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An early manuscript book.
  2. A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
  3. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.
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She holds a scroll, he a codex, on both of which the writing is clearly legible.
Whether codex or manuscript, they were here to love real books and real words.
On the facing pages of chapter 1 is an exact transcription of the codex, haplographies, dittographies, misspellings, lacunae, and all.
One example is this twelfth-century illumination from another Greek codex of the book of Job.
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.
He suggests that they indicate that the stone vessel may have originally contained a Maya codex, or ancient book.

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