The codex is a delivers of parallelepipedic form, result of the assembly of Manuscrit S, initially in Parchemin from in the Roman Empire then in Papier since the 13th century, historically resulting from the old form of the roller and the horizontal Volumen.

This layout of texts constituted a true revolution at the beginning of the Christian era because contrary to the roller ( Volumen ), which imposes a continuous reading, the codex gives access the chapters (structure of the text) in a direct way. The practice to number the pages (by letters) accompanied this innovation. Its adoption in Christendom is all the more marked that, support of the Bible, the codex makes it possible to be different from the rollers on which the Juif S write the Torah ( Sefer Torah ).

By extension the term codex was employed for collections of laws (like the Codex Theodosianus ) from where the name of Code employed today. The Imprimerie did not make disappear the codices: those of Léonard de Vinci constitute a striking proof of it. The codex as object is studied by a specific science: the Codicologie.

  1. definition of the size of the plank
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  1. definition of the data of the plank

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The format

The format of the codex depends on the way in which the layer is folded: in two, in folio , in four, in fourthly , in eight, in octavo …

to form white filament to use for the made papyrus of small booklet

Contents

the codex constituted the official booklet of the current medicinal preparations

Illustrations

The binding

The codices méso-American

See also: indigenous Codices of central Mexico

It should be noted that méso-American civilizations (Olmèques, Zapotèques, Mayas, Toltèques, Aztec, etc) invented writing and paper independently of Eurasia. One also speaks about codex to indicate their works containing drawings and legends.

The conquistadores discovered these works and required of overcome to write their history, and the history of their defeat, by continuing their styles.

One thus finds by these works an evolution with the wire of the time of the C-W communication and semiology of the Mayas and the Aztec ones.

Asian codices

The invention of the paper and the methods of impression was done in China, of the hundreds of years before the occident, it thus existed codices there well before the invention in Europe. The printed papers form are in folded rollers, panels or codices connected using thin straps (codex Tibetan S or Dongba, connected in top) or of wire (Chinese codices connected on with dimensions one).

List codex in Occident

  • Codex Alexandrinus

  • Codex Argenteus
  • Codex Atlanticus
  • Codex Bezae (Cantabrigiensis)
  • Codex Borgia
  • Codex Calixtinus
  • Codex Claromontanus
  • Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus
  • Codex Gigas
  • Codex Leicester
  • Codex Mendoza
  • Codex Regius
  • Codex Sinaiticus
  • Codex Vaticanus
  • Codex Zamoscianus
  • Codex Rustici
  • Codex Squarcialupi

See too

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