codex
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The text formed part of what is known as a codex, where parchment sheets were folded to create pages and marked out to create book numbers to help readers navigate.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Ancient Aztec communities from the pre-Columbian period of Mesoamerica had a rich mythological codex that was also part of their ritual and sacrificial ceremonies.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
The pair turn into a tracking device when Venom fully manifests, and the codex can be destroyed only if one of them dies, so the story is essentially a chase movie through the American Southwest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
A twelfth-century codex illustration shows the Byzantines using Greek fire to burn an enemy ship during a rebellion of the ninth century.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The drawing at left, from a sixteenth-century codex, is a winter- count-like depiction of a year dominated by smallpox; two men lie dying or dead, their bodies spotted with pustules.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
They also used codices, book-like records drawn on bark paper that combined both images and pictograms.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Authors penned chivalric romances and heroic tales of knights battling fantastic monsters and traveling to exotic lands—think, Beowulf and King Arthur—by hand onto parchment and eventually paper codices.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 16, 2022
Driggers cited Mexican-born American artist Enrique Chagoya, who evokes Maya codices — folding books of colorful glyphs — in his satirical “Illegal Alien’s Guide to the Theory of Everything.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
The reassembled pages of his once-scattered codices have been reproduced for display in this exhibition; visitors can also explore digitized versions of the codices in-depth using touchscreens.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
The tlamatini, who “himself was writing and wisdom,” was expected to write and maintain the codices and live in a way that set a moral example.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing codex
Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires - Introductory
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