codices in English

noun
1
an ancient manuscript text in book form.
The novelist incorrectly refers to the Nag Hammadi documents as scrolls; they are actually codices .

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1. Codger (Thesaurus) codfish codices

2. Christianity's most sacred codices are in that archive.

3. Codices were converted into "books" by folding into an accordion pattern.

4. Records appear in the Codices as early as 1301 (before the Aztecs …

5. The last share was allotted to royal scribes for the writing of codices and other records.

6. It has 75,000 codices from throughout history, as well as 1.1 million printed books, which include some 8,500 incunabula.

7. However, Anobium punctatum is the classic Bookworm primarily responsible for tunneling holes through the pages of old codices and manuscripts

8. Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti by Biblioteca nazionale marciana, 1967, Istituto poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato edition, in Latin

9. Bibliothecae ebraicae graecae florentinae sive Bibliothecae mediceo-lavrentianae catalogvs ab Antonio Maria Biscionio digestvs atque editvs, complectens codices orientales omnes, et xxxiii

10. Maya glyphs were also painted on codices made of either deer hide or bleached fig-tree paper that was then covered with a thin layer of plaster and folded accordion-style.

11. Astronomical symbols are abstract pictorial symbols used to represent Astronomical objects, theoretical constructs and observational events in European astronomy.The earliest forms of these symbols appear in Greek papyrus texts of late antiquity.The Byzantine codices in which many Greek papyrus texts were preserved continued and extended the inventory of Astronomical symbols.