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

Any codex of Bede's Easter cycle is normally found together with a codex of his " De Temporum Ratione ".

However, in early Tiberian manuscripts such as the Aleppo codex and the Leningrad codex, Chronicles is placed as the first book in Ketuvim, preceding Psalms.

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.

The alternative to paged codex format for a long document is the continuous scroll.

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.

As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.

To, the Toledo codex now kept in the National Library in Madrid, is the earliest collection and contains 129 songs.

Although P52 has no more than 114 legible letters, it must come from a substantial codex book ; as it is written on both sides in a generously scaled script, with on one side and on the other.

It is thus named for being both the one written authority ( codex ) secondary ( only ) to the Tanakh as a basis for the passing of judgment, a source and a tool for creating laws, and the first of many books to complement the Bible in certain aspects.

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.

The codex is considered a priceless historical treasure.

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

It is estimated that about 360 animals were slaughtered for making the folios of this codex, assuming all animals yielded a good enough skin.

:* Matthew 23: 35 – ( son of Barachi ' ah ) omitted ; this omission is supported only by codex 59 ( by the first hand ), three Evangelistaria ( ℓ 6, ℓ 13, and ℓ 185 ), and Eusebius.

2 Timothy 4: 10 – it reads Γαλλιαν for Γαλατιαν, the reading of the codex is supported by along with Ephraemi Rescriptus, 81, 104, 326, 436.

However, the codex repeats itself as Stephen I is also cited as the first king of the Hungarians.

* 1280 to 1283 – The E codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of Portuguese musical manuscripts, is dated to between 1280 and 1283.

The fate of the codex during the 15th century is unknown, but by the 1590s it had passed into possession of baron Johann Philipp of Hohensax ( two of whose forebears are portrayed in the codex, on foll.

Typographer Robert Bringhurst referred to the codex as a " subtle piece of craftsmanship ".

This codex is also referred to as Rohonczi Codex which is the Hungarian name of the codex spelled according to the old Hungarian orthography that was reformed in the first half of the 20th century.

Although occasionally referred to over the next quarter-century, its permanent " rediscovery " is attributed to the French orientalist León de Rosny, who in 1859 recovered the codex from a basket of old papers sequestered in a chimney corner at the Bibliothèque Nationale where it had lain discarded and apparently forgotten.

First described by the 1st-century AD Roman poet Martial, who praised its convenient use, the codex achieved numerical parity with the scroll around AD 300, and had completely replaced it throughout the now Christianised Greco-Roman world by the 6th century.

* The Codex and Canon Consciousness – Draft paper by Robert Kraft on the change from scroll to codex

The first legal codex proper, Halakhot Pesukot (" Decided Laws "), by Yehudai Gaon ( c. 760 ), rearranges the Talmud passages in a structure manageable to the layman.

The Komondor was brought to Europe by the Cumans and it was mentioned for the first time in 1544 in a Hungarian codex.

An 1873 edition by Wölfflin was based on Salmasius's copy of the lost codex.

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

The codex consists of parchment, originally in double sheets, which may have measured about 40 by 70 cm.

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.

Any variations to standardized text were invalidated and ordered to be destroyed, all other versions of the Quran copied by scribes subsequently were from this codex.

A few extracts from the five orations on Chrysostom were preserved by Photius ( codex 273 ).

The compilation of the codex was patornized by the Manesse family of Zürich, presumably by Rüdiger II Manesse ( b. before 1252, d. after 1304 ).

The Laurentian codex was compiled in what are today Russian lands by the Nizhegorod monk Laurentius for the Prince Dmitry Konstantinovich in 1377.

Portions of the codex were collated by several scholars, but numerous errors were made during this process.

Other scholars have expressed a differing opinion, noting that the codex is similar in style to murals found at Chichen Itza, Mayapan and sites on the east coast such as Santa Rita, Tancah and Tulum.

The majority of Hungarian scholars take the codex to be a hoax of Sámuel Literáti Nemes ( 1796 – 1842 ), Transylvanian-Hungarian antiquarian, co-founder of the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, infamous for many historical forgeries ( mostly made in the 1830s ) which even deceived some of the most renowned Hungarian scholars of the time.

The fragments are written on both sides, leading scholars to think that they came from a codex rather than a scroll.

These new discoveries have led scholars to question the total length of the codex, as there are still fragments missing from it today.

The codex was deposited into the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in 1659, 5 years after Selden's death, where it remained in obscurity until 1831, when it was rediscovered by Viscount Kingsborough and brought to the attention of scholars.

Terry Garcia, an executive vice president for Mission Programs of the National Geographic Society, asserted that the codex is considered by scholars and scientists to be the most significant ancient, non-biblical text to be found since the 1940s.