How to Use codex in a Sentence
codex
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View the codex and search its text and imagery at florentinecodex.getty.edu.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
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The codex’s trail then went cold for roughly 600 years.
—Jennifer Schuessler, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023
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It wasn’t rebuilt—and the codex disappeared for the next 600 years.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
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No part of the codex has ever been seen in the United States — until now.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
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This is believed to be the very first codex, or manuscript in book form, of the Hebrew Bible.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
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Carbon-dated to the 10th century, the codex has spent most of its life out of the public eye.
—Benjamin Lima, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
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There's a dungeon to conquer or a town to explore or a new codex of spells to master.
—Luke Winkie, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
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The show at the Getty marks only the third time ever the codex will go on public display.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
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Fragments of codices had been found at centers of the Mayan elite, but never among the peasant class.
—Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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Dating to the fourth or fifth centuries, the codex is notable not only for its age.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
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With its easy-to-count pages and pillow-like form, some monks feared that the codex would distract monks from the content of its pages.
—WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023
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Two thousand years after the codex and 500 after the Gutenberg press, the book persists.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
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Some codices were small enough to be held in one hand, and Cicero claimed to have seen a copy of the Iliad that fit in a nutshell.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
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That’s why Suárez and his team turned to Aztec codices and the accounts of Spanish missionaries.
—National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
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For a certain kind of obsessive magazine nerd, each one is spell book or codex, a key to the deep grammar of the craft.
—New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
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Second, the myth is a form – first tablets, then parchment, then a codex, and later pixels – in need of translation and care.
—Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2021
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The frame, and the codex, are just an excuse to gather together some tales that folks have long been telling together.
—Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
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But the style of the depiction is called codex style, a form of pottery very specific to northern Peten area in Guatemala.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023
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The codex explains that a surface crack measuring 2,800 brazas appeared after the quake.
—National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
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The codex is currently housed in the Biblioteca Ambrosia in Milan.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 May 2023
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Some of these pages exist as loose sheets today; others have been bound into the volumes now known as notebooks or codices.
—Claudia Kalb, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
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The Dresden codex is the oldest surviving book of the Americas.
—Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2018
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Another possibility was that the bark was part of a codex, or Maya book with writing on its pages.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2022
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Gamers can use a codex, which splits the game collection into seven different categories, and then check the shelves.
—Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
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The codex, or paper book, was discovered by looters in the Chiapas state of Mexico and sold in the mid-1960s to a private collector.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2016
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But the synagogue was never rebuilt and the codex continued on its odyssey until it was acquired by Sassoon in 1929.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
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Within some codices, such glyphs are accompanied by dates.
—National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
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Notes in the codex indicate that its next steward was Salama bin Abi al-Fakhr, who was supposed to keep it safe until the synagogue was rebuilt.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
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Except, in the codex, many of these homophones were based on Nahuatl words, requiring knowledge of the language to decipher them.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
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As an online source, the codex, initially written in Nahuatl and Spanish, was translated into English.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
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