(English) A manuscript book, either hand written or painted (plural form: codices) Typically a codex has pages bound along the left edge, much like a modern book; but the word also refers to indigenous manuscripts that were folded rather than bound
an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll) an official list of chemicals or medicines etc
3 'In medicine, a collection of receipts for the preparation of drugs' (Syd Soc Lex ); spec the French Pharmacopœia
An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament
The ancient precursor to the book In contrast to a rolled-up scroll, the codex was a series of leaves bound at the spine in a manner that resembles the pages of a book At an early period, Christians abandoned the scroll in favor of the codex Scholars are in disagreement about when this change took place
The codex is the each warrior's personal record It includes the names of the original Bloodnamed warriors from which a warrior is descended It also records background information such as the warrior's generation number, Blood House, and codex ID, an alphanumeric code noting the unique aspects of that person's DNA The codex also contains a record of the warrior's military career
originally the trunk of a tree, then a wooden tablet, and finally a book; the common form of book in the Western world after ca 350 AD, with pages, gatherings, and a binding
A manuscript book, its text hand-written on a number of separate pages It cannot be mechanically printed nor can it be written on a rolled scroll