The whole codex consists, with a few exceptions, of quires of eight leaves, a format popular throughout the Middle Ages.

The portion of the codex held by the British Library consists of 346½ folios, 694 pages ( 38. 1 cm x 34. 5 cm ), constituting over half of the original work.

The codex consists of 206 vellum leaves that are 30 cm in height by 21. 5 cm in width.

The codex is in quarto, and now consists of 773 vellum folios ( 630 in the Old Testament and 143 in the New Testament ), bound in four volumes ( 279 + 238 + 118 + 144 folios ).

It consists of a fragmentary fire-damaged parchment codex that was acquired by the Egyptian Museum of Berlin in 1961 ( accessioned as Papyrus Berolinensis 22220 ).

The pages of parchment notebooks were commonly washed or scraped for re-use, called a palimpsest ; and consequently writings in a codex were considered informal and impermanent.

The codex is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript written in the 4th century in uncial letters on parchment.

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a palimpsest ( ancient overwritten manuscript ) on parchment in the form of a codex ( hand-written bound book, as opposed to a scroll ).

In 1229 the original Archimedes codex was unbound, scraped and washed, along with at least six other parchment manuscripts, including one with works of Hypereides.

During this time we see the first physical book, the parchment codex.

Written one column per page, the codex contains 406 extant parchment leaves ( from perhaps an original 534 ) measuring 26 x 21. 5 cm, with the Greek text on the left face and the Latin text on the right.

In 1969 in Upper Egypt a Greek parchment codex dating to ca.

Many of the new religions relied on the emergence of the parchment codex ( bound book ) over the papyrus volumen ( scroll ), the former allowing for quicker access to key materials and easier portability than the fragile scroll, thus fueling the rise of synoptic exegesis, papyrology.

The codex is written on parchment and bound in leather.

The " Berlin Codex " is a single-quire Coptic codex bound with wooden boards covered with a leather that neither resembles tanned leather, nor does it resemble parchment or alum-tawed skin ( i. e. skin that has been dressed with alum to soften and bleach it ).

It is written on two leaves of parchment, the first and last in a theological codex.

It is a beautiful codex on parchment and richly illustrated.

and Greek ,-logia ) is the study of books as physical objects, especially manuscripts written on parchment ( or paper ) in codex form.

Several pages before this are written on a blackening parchment and have a very gloomy character, somewhat different from the rest of the codex.

In early scribal practice there was a distinction between a Sefer Torah, containing the entire Pentateuch on a parchment scroll, and a copy of one of the five books on its own, which was generally bound in codex form, like a modern book, and had a lesser degree of sanctity.

The parchment codex called Littera Florentina is the closest survivor to an official version of the Pandects, the digest of Roman law promulgated by Justinian I in 530 – 533.

They include a parchment codex containing the acts of the Sardinian synod held at Santa Giusta, November 3, 1226 and the 16th century manuscript of Giovanni Proto Arca's seven books of the natural and moral history of Sardinia ( Naturalis et moralis historiae de rebus Sardiniae, libri septem ), among other documents.

The most important item in the National Museum in Sarajevo is the Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish illuminated codex originally from 12th century Spain.

According to Rodolphe Kasser, the codex originally contained 31 pages, with writing on both sides ; however, when it came to the market in 1999, only 13 pages remained.

The first documentary evidence of any settlements around the Hayle Estuary is in 1130 when Phillack Church and surrounding dwellings were recorded as " Egloshayle ", meaning the church ( eglos ) on the estuary ( heyl ), with the church being dedicated originally to St Felec ( as appears in a 10th century Vatican codex ), from where it is believed the name Phillack was derived.

A codex ( Latin caudex for " trunk of a tree " or block of wood, book ; plural codices ) is a book made up of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, or similar, with hand-written content, usually stacked and bound by fixing one edge and with covers thicker than the sheets, but sometimes continuous and folded concertina-style.

Early Christian writers soon adopted the codex form, and in the Græco-Roman world, it became common to cut sheets from papyrus rolls to form codices.

If the original codex did indeed contain the entire text of the canonical Gospel of John, it would have constituted a single quire book of around 130 pages ( i. e. 33 large folded papyrus sheets written on both sides ); measuring approximately 21 by 20 cm when closed.

Roberts noted a glued vertical join in the papyrus slightly inside the inner margin and visible on the verso, indicating that the large sheets used for the codex were likely to have been specially prepared for the purpose, each having been constructed from two standard sized sheets measuring approximately 21 cm by 16 cm, with a central narrower sheet approximately 21 cm by 8 cm constituting the spine.

The sheets were then pasted together at the fold to make a codex with alternate openings of printed and blank pairs of pages.

While deciphering the codex, the librarian E. W. Förstemann noticed an error in Aglio ’ s page assignment of the sheets 1 / 45 and 2 / 44, so he correctly reassigned Aglio ’ s pages 44 and 45 to become pages 1 and 2.

The only independent textual source for Ammianus lies in M, another ninth-century Frankish codex which was, unfortunately, unbound and placed in other codices during the fifteenth century.

This interest is attested to by the Dresden codex which contains tables with information about the Venus's appearances in the sky.

There were not, in antiquity, as there are today, single-volume collections of all of Sacred Scripture which most Christians have in codex form in their homes and places of worship.

The spread of the codex is often associated with the rise of Christianity, which adopted the format for the Bible early on.

The codex holds considerable practical advantages over other book formats, such as compactness, sturdiness, ease of reference ( a codex is random access, as opposed to a scroll, which is sequential access ), and especially economy of materials ; unlike the scroll, both recto and verso could be used for writing.

Reproduced Roman-style wax tablet, from which the codex evolved

The codex also made it easier to organize documents in a library because it had a stable spine on which the title of the book could be written.

In traditional bookbinding, these assembled folios trimmed and curved were called " codex " in order to differentiate it from the " case " which we now know as " hard cover ".

Like the Christian libraries, they mostly contained books which were made of paper, and took a codex or modern form instead of scrolls ; they could be found in mosques, private homes, and universities, from Timbuktu to Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan.

Most surviving pre-modern manuscripts use the codex format ( as in a modern book ), which had replaced the scroll by Late Antiquity.

In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex ( written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants who were probably not eyewitnesses of the meeting ) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, " You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you ," and, " You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs ; may our lords come on earth.

It is termed a code ( codex ), in the certificate of Anianus, the king ’ s referendary, but unlike the code of Justinian, from which the writings of jurists were excluded, it comprises both imperial constitutions ( leges ) and juridical treatises ( jura ).

According to the prefatory letters, the work was composed at the urging of his friend Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa, to whom Isidore, at the end of his life, sent his codex inemendatus (" unedited book "), which seems to have begun circulating before Braulio was able to revise it, and issue it, with a dedication to the late Visigothic King Sisebut.

According to a tradition which has historical confirmation, it was Akiva who systematized and brought into methodic arrangement the Mishnah, or Halakah codex ; the Midrash, or the exegesis of the Halakah ; and the Halakot, the logical amplification of the Halakah ( Yer.

The codex contained a collection of documents ( of which the Notitia was the last and largest document, occupying 164 pages ) that brought together several previous documents of which one was of the 9th century.

A third complete copy, known as F = codex Parisinus gr. 2967, is itself a copy of V, which was begun by Eparchus and completed by Michael Damascene ; V is undated.

The fragment, consisting of 85 lines, is a 7th-century Latin manuscript bound in an eighth or 7th century codex that came from the library of Columban's monastery at Bobbio ; it contains internal cues which suggest that it is a translation from a Greek original written about 170 or as late as the 4th century.

The Codex Runicus is a codex of 202 pages written in medieval runes around the year 1300 which includes the oldest preserved Nordic provincial law, Scanian Law ( Skånske lov ) pertaining to the Danish land Scania ( Skåneland ).

A digital facsimile of the codex is available from Cambridge University Library, which holds the manuscript.

The songs are compiled in what the students refer to as the codex, which contains the club anthems of most student organisations and hundreds of songs in various languages, such as Dutch, French, English, German, Latin and Afrikaans.

A 10th century codex, Codex Vossianus Latinus Q 69 found by Gino Zaninotto in the Vatican Library contains an 8th-century account saying that an imprint of Christ's whole body was left on a canvas kept in a church in Edessa: it quotes a man called Smera in Constantinople: " King Abgar received a cloth on which one can see not only a face but the whole body " ( in Latin: tantum faciei figuram sed totius corporis figuram cernere poteris ).