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.

The original codex contained 165 leaves, in the quarto size.

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.

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 ".

* In textual criticism, Codex Petropolitanus, a 9th century, uncial codex of the Gospels, now located in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The now incomplete codex has the text of the Gospel of Matthew and the majority of the Gospel of Mark, with only one lacuna ( Mark 16: 14-20 ).

The Glosas Emilianenses are glosses added to this Latin codex that are now considered the first phrases written in the Castilian language.

The Egerton Gospel ( British Library Egerton Papyrus 2 ) refers to a group of papyrus fragments of a codex of a previously unknown gospel, found in Egypt and sold to the British Museum in 1934 ; the physical fragments are now dated to the very end of the 2nd century AD, although the date of composition is less clear – perhaps 50-100 AD.

All the known and extant copies of this late Roman document are derived, either directly or indirectly, from a codex ( Codex Spirensis ) that is known to have existed in the library of the cathedral chapter at Speyer in 1542 but which was lost before 1672 and cannot now be located.

The codex was named after the city of Rohonc, in Western Hungary ( now Rechnitz, Austria ), where it was kept until 1838, when it was donated to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by Gusztáv Batthyány, a Hungarian count, together with his entire library.

The codex is now preserved in the National Library of Russia, accessioned as " Firkovich B 19 A ".

43 leaves ( all but one ) of the codex now are located at the Bibliothèque Nationale of the Manuscrits occidentaux ( Supplement Grec.

The modern edition of his works derives from a single codex, which appeared in the 14th century in his hometown of Verona, but now is lost.

The codex is of Danubian provenance, and closely related to three other surviving manuscripts-two of them now in Poland and one in the Prague Capitol Library.

She traced the Mixtec codex now called the Codex Zouche-Nuttall and wrote the introduction to its first facsimile publication ( Peabody Museum, Harvard ), 1902.

All have passed over a codex which, if they chanced to take it up, appeared to offer only well-known church items, but which now, valued according to its entire content, offers a treasure such that the most famous libraries have nothing to compare with it ...

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

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.

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 ).

Fragment of a vellum codex from the 4th-5th centuries AD, showing choral anapaests from Medea ( play ) | Medea, lines 1087-91.

A vellum codex found interred with him was removed.

The Codex Bezae Cantabrigensis, designated by siglum D < sup > ea </ sup > or 05 ( in the Gregory-Aland numbering ), δ 5 ( von Soden ), is a codex of the New Testament dating from the 5th century written in an uncial hand on vellum.

The manuscript received its name as a codex in which Greek translations of Ephraem the Syrian's treatises were written over (" rescriptus ") a former text that had been washed off its vellum pages, thus forming a palimpsest.

The codex has 155 vellum folios and measures 11. 25 by 8. 5 inches.

It further provided for the transfer from the Danish Royal Library ( Det kongelige Bibliotek ) of manuscripts belonging to the same categories as the manuscripts relinquished by the Arnamagnæan Collection, and contained a special clause relating to the transfer to Iceland of two manuscripts, the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda and the vellum codex Flateyjarbók, both of which were in the Royal Library ( and would not have been deemed islandsk kultureje under the terms of the treaty ).