Codices in a sentence

If successful, Dr. Tilley said, there are damaged codices all over the world that one day may yield their secrets.

Also known as codex valentinus, it is the oldest manuscript of the codices with maps of Ptolemy with the donis projections.

Based on codices, as well as other histories, the Mexicas appear to have arrived at Chapultepec in or around the year 1248.

Codices were an improvement on the papyrus scroll, as the papyrus was not pliable enough to fold without cracking and a long roll, or scroll, was required to create large-volume texts.

Early Christian writers soon adopted the codex form, and in the Græco-Roman world, it became common to cut sheets from papyrus rolls to form codices.

Gregorius and Hermogenianus' codices lack the rigid structuring of later codes, Harries, 21–22.

In fact, any combination of codices and scrolls with papyrus and parchment is technically feasible and common in the historical record.

Lastly may be mentioned a hand which is of great interest as being the ancestor of the type called (from its later occurrence in vellum codices of the Bible ) the biblical hand.

Lately the Stiftsbibliothek has launched a project for the digitisation of the priceless manuscript collection, which currently (December 2009) contains 355 documents that are available on the Codices Electronici Sangallenses webpage.

Lucian, III It should be noted that in some medieval codices of Herodotus the name of the runner between Athens and Sparta before the battle is given as Philippides and in a few modern editions this name is preferred.

Many of the landmarks in the history of recorded communication between people are in the university's Special Collections Research Center, from cuneiform tablets and papyri to several codices dating from the 11th century, to the invention of printing.

Medieval codices are constructed in "gathers" which are folded (compare "folio", "leaf, page" ablative case of Latin folium), then stacked together like a newspaper and sewn together at the fold.

Some codices containing a ninth canon:sfn Children dying without baptism do not go to a "middle place" ( medius locus main), since the non reception of baptism excludes both from the "kingdom of heaven" and from "eternal life".

The ancients stored codices with spines facing inward, and not always vertically.

The earliest surviving fragments from codices come from Egypt, and are variously dated (always tentatively) towards the end of the 1st century or in the first half of the 2nd.

Themeistius hired calligraphers and craftsman to produce the actual codices.

The possibility of Spanish influence poses potential problems for those studying the post-conquest codices.

These codices had differences that motivated the Caliph Uthman to establish a standard version now known as Uthman's codex, which is generally considered the archetype of the Quran known today.

Web. 25 October 2012 The Jewish Codices began a process of restricting polygamy in Judaism.