Of particular importance are the four surviving codices from the Yucatan area (the Dresden, Paris, Madrid, and Grolier). From Wordnik.com. [Mesoamerican Religion: Symbolism of the Gods Part One] Reference
Ancient Romans arguably created the first modern form of books called codices by tying together parchment paper between two wooden slabs. From Wordnik.com. [Film Junk] Reference
As that form subsequently crept into general use, the books were known as "codices;" and hence the ordinary term as applied to manuscript volumes. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference
Empire are called codices, e. g. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Three readable books, or codices, survived in European museums. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Liber de natura rerum: Editio princeps secundum codices manuscriptos. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
Both Grey and Reptilian types are explicitly described in the codices. From Wordnik.com. [Manipulative Extraterrestrials and the undermining of Human free will] Reference
From central Mexico only a couple of pre-Hispanic Aztec codices have survived. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources] Reference
The Mixtecs left much of their history recorded in magnificent deerskin codices. From Wordnik.com. [The Classic Period (300-900 AD) Part 2: Cholula] Reference
Picture writing was employed in codices formed for religious and astronomical purposes. From Wordnik.com. [G. The Americas, 1000-1525] Reference
The dates of these codices (centuries indicated by Arabic numerals) are about as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
Ussher and Ware, who had the Life in very ancient codices, also thought it of great antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore] Reference
Heinsius 'codices, I give the modern name when the manuscript has been identified and is still extant. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
That glow lost itself in swartwood furniture, murky carpet, leatherbound codices and ancestral portraits. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
So did a chess set and a bookshelf which held both codices and spools, both classics and scientific works. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
Most of the pre-Hispanic historical codices come to us from the Mixtec people of the Oaxaca cultural region. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part two] Reference
The document is one of four surviving Maya codices, the others being the Dresden, Grolier, and Paris codices. From Wordnik.com. [Redating the Madrid Codex] Reference
Indigenous sources chronicle these events as a great cocoliztle, (great plague or illness) in various codices. From Wordnik.com. [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference
By the time Nicholas died in 1455, the collection had swelled to about 1,500 codices and was the largest in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Vatican Library Reopens After 3-Year Restoration] Reference
Oral literature did not entirely die out, however, and codices continued to be produced even in the Colonial period. From Wordnik.com. [Reinventing the Aztecs, part one] Reference
Venetian codices, besides use of Parisinus A and Vesontinus; manuscripts of the Fragments, especially the Tours manuscript. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
Among the codices and scrolls on bookshelves behind him were many, both religious and secular, that Kassianos also esteemed. From Wordnik.com. [Counting Up, Counting Down]
The exception was Warhammer, a game of mesmerising slowness whose rules, codices and literature were of Torah-like complexity. From Wordnik.com. [We're all hooked on fishing now] Reference
He haunts the royal library, finding in dusty scrolls and crumbling codices strange accounts of lands beyond the Western Ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
Only a handful of pre-Hispanic codices escaped the holocaust of the Spanish Conquest, and these are mostly from the Oaxaca area. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources] Reference
And as these codices were more ancient than any now available, it is greatly to be regretted that they have disappeared or perished. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
The most important was a cache of codices (books as opposed to scrolls) uncovered in 1945 near the village of Nag Hammadi, in Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [The Case for Judas, Continued] Reference
If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Name of the Rose]
However, hundreds of native and mixed-style codices and manuscripts were produced during the Colonial Period and even into modern times. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources] Reference
There has been none among them who would consult the Hebrew or Greek codices, or who would even compare the Latin copies with each other. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
But in truth we wanted manuscripts not moneyscripts; we loved codices more than florins, and preferred slender pamphlets to pampered palfreys. From Wordnik.com. [The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury] Reference
These codices, which date roughly from the time of Constantine (who died in A.D. 337), are almost identical — each contains nearly the entire New. From Wordnik.com. [Who Do Men Say That I Am?] Reference
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