codex

One can’t possibly grasp the closeness two people share until they’ve experienced firsthand the joy and indescribable pain that come with the kind of enmeshment written in fate’s codex.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 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

Studs are like codex for the alternative — unmistakable messaging that turns any chill fit into a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

In explaining a whole new vista of spectacle evolving around the demands of personal tech, this exhibition demonstrates the human element by enlisting relics of the past — the humble codex, map and page.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

By contrast, all but the very longest titles could easily be printed in a single codex.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

The temporary exchange of the two codices was agreed by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, during a visit by the latter to Mexico last year.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

A symbol of status, carmine red was already employed by the nobility of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples to dye garments, and widely used in the arts, to write codices, decorate ceramics and paint murals.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

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

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