codex
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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
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
In the 13th Century, the codex was dedicated to a synagogue in Makisin, in north-eastern Syria.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2023
By contrast, all but the very longest titles could easily be printed in a single codex.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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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 Library” abounds in fascinating tales of lost codices and found manuscripts, and the sometimes unscrupulous schemes by which people have conspired to obtain or amass valuable volumes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2018
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
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Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires - Introductory
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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