codex — Dictionnaire anglais

Nom

1. An early manuscript book, especially one bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.

   Exemples

   Only eleven codexes form the division that is intitled CHRISTIAN I.

   To discover and possess Greek codexes then became the ambition of every cultured person

   Plus d’exemples (5)

   The great body of Old English poetry is preserved in three volumes, or codexes, of miscellaneous content

   Sarima drew her robes about her, and traced a pattern in the cold dust on a nearby stack of codexes.

   We're still learning about this cache of codexes, and one thing we've learned is that they aren't all "Gnostic" in character.

   But by the time we reach that telescope and the imaginative gallery it introduces, we have seen things even more remarkable: ornately decorated quadrants of enameled brass, metal calipers, arcane charts, minutely inscribed maps, spheres within spheres like compass roses from other worlds, codexes and manuscripts, cylinders, dials, rings, rods and boxes.

   From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility. The progenitor of the modern bound book, the codex gradually supplanted the scroll, a medium inimical to the indexer’s art.

2. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

   Synonymes

   pharmacopoeia

   Exemples

   the French codex

Nom

1. an official list of chemicals or medicines etc.

   Termes génériques

   listlisting

2. an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll)

   Synonymes

   leaf-book

   Termes génériques

   manuscriptholograph