codex — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

   Esempi

   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

   Altri esempi (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.

   Sinonimi

   pharmacopoeia

   Esempi

   the French codex

Sostantivo

1. an official list of chemicals or medicines etc.

   Termini più generali

   listlisting

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

   Sinonimi

   leaf-book

   Termini più generali

   manuscriptholograph