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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 Crosby–Schøyen Codex is part of a corpus of papyri known as the Bodmer Papyri, and was previously held by the University of Mississippi, followed by the Schøyen Collection of Martin Schøyen of Oslo. The codex is set to be featured in the Schøyen Collection Auction by Christie's on 11 June 2024. [3] [6]
Anatomical manuscript C was in turn divided into six anatomical quires, the Quaderni di anatomia I–VI. [2] Studies of a fetus in the womb, from Codex Windsor (W.19102 recto), black chalk, sanguine, pen, ink wash on paper. One image shows a fetus in the right position within an excised uterus.
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.
The Grimalt Codex is a manuscript, now no. 397 in the abbey library of Saint Gall, containing poetic, liturgical, computistic, mythological, scientific and historical material, including a calendar and glossaries, in both Latin and Old High German. [1]
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 Nowell Codex is the second of two manuscripts comprising the bound volume Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, one of the four major Old English poetic manuscripts. It is most famous as the manuscript containing the unique copy of the epic poem Beowulf .
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 ...