Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology, a "codex" is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages. (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.)
The Codex Gigas, 13th century, Bohemia. The codex (pl.: codices / ˈ k oʊ d ɪ s iː z /) [1] was the historical ancestor format of the modern book.Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text.
Codex Mashhad is an old codex of the Qurʾān, now mostly preserved in two manuscripts, MSS 18 and 4116, in the Āstān-i Quds Library, Mashhad, Iran. The first manuscript in 122 folios and the second in 129 folios together constitute more than 90% of the text of the Qurʾān. [1]: 293 The current codex is in two separate volumes, MSS 18 and 4116.
Leningrad/Petrograd Codex text sample, portions of Exodus 15:21-16:3. A Hebrew Bible manuscript is a handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) made on papyrus, parchment, or paper, and written in the Hebrew language (some of the biblical text and notations may be in Aramaic).
The oldest part of the codex contains text from Genesis 39:20 to Deuteronomy 1:3, with gaps and later additions. [2] The manuscript contains 186 folios, 55 of which were later added to the codex. The added parts consist of folios 1-28, 125 (Numbers 7:46-73), 128 (Numbers 9:12-10:18), [3] and folios 160-186 (Deuteronomy 1:4-34:12). The additions ...
The Codex Manesse (also Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift [1] or Pariser Handschrift) is a Liederhandschrift (manuscript containing songs), the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German Minnesang poetry, written and illustrated between c. 1304 when the main part was completed, and c. 1340 with the addenda.
The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a codex. The measurements of the leaves are 254 mm by 158 mm. Originally the codex contained 76 unnumbered leaves, now 74 leaves. It is written in Sahidic dialect. Pages A–B are blank. [3] The codex contains: The Apocryphon of John; The Gospel of Thomas, a sayings gospel, pages C–D blank
The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a codex. It is written in Sahidic dialect. [2] [3] The codex contains: Trimorphic Protennoia and On the Origin of the World. [4] It is the only surviving copy of the Trimorphic Protennoia. [5] The text is written in uncial letters. It is well written in an informal book hand.