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| | Argenteus, Codex - encyclopedia article about Argenteus, Codex. |
 | | In 1737, Lars Roberg, a physician of Uppsala, made a woodcut of one page of the manuscript; it was included in Benzelius' edition of 1750, and the woodcut is preserved in the Linköping Diocesan and Regional Library. | | | The first publication mentioning the codex appeared in 1569, by Johannes Goropius Becanus of Antwerp. | | | The book, or the remaining part of it, came to rest in the library of Emperor Rudolph II at his imperial seat in Prague. |
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| | Codex Sinaiticus Encyclopedia Article |
| | On a second visit, in 1853, he found only two short fragments of Genesis (which he printed on his return) and could learn nothing of the rest of the codex. | | | were copied into the Book of Esdras, probably by a mistake in the binding of the manuscript from which Codex Sinaiticus was copied. | | | The New Testament is complete, likewise the Epistle of Barnabas; six leaves following Barnabas are lost, which probably also contained uncanonical literature: the "Shepherd" of Hermas is incomplete, and we cannot tell whether other works followed. |
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| | Codex Vaticanus: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | Textual criticism is a branch of philology that examines the extant manuscript copies of an ancient or medieval literary work to produce a text that is as close... | | | Vellum (from the latin for "wool" or "pelt") is a sort of parchment, a material for the pages of a book or codex, usually made from calf skin.... | | | (has argued that Codex Vaticanus was among the 50 Bibles that the Emperor Constantine I[For more info, click on this link] ordered Eusebius of Caesarea Eusebius of Caesarea quick summary: |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Codex |
| | The codex also made it easier to organize documents in a library because it had a stable spine on which the title of the book could be written, and later read when books where arranged upright on shelves. | | | A codex (Latin for book; plural codices) is a handwritten book from late Antiquity or the Early Middle Ages. | | | The designation Codex is less used in conventional names given Medieval manuscripts, when the codex form is universal and understood. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Codex Bezae |
| | Moreover, it is usually identified with Codex beta, whose peculiar readings were collated in 1546 for Stephens' edition of the Greek Testament by friends of his in Italy. | | | All this, throwing Beza's original statement into doubt, indicates that the manuscript was in Italy in the middle of the sixteenth century, and has some bearing upon the locality of the production. | | | The condition of the book shows a gap between the Gospels and Acts; and the fragment of III John indicates that, as in other ancient manuscript, the Catholic Epistles were placed there. |
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| | codex - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about codex |
| | The Codex Juris Canonici/Code of Canon Law is the body of laws governing the Roman Catholic Church since 1918. | | | The name ‘codex’ was used for all large works, collections of history, philosophy, poetry, and during the Roman empire designated collections of laws. | | | Book from before the invention of printing&; in ancient times wax-coated wooden tablets; later, folded sheets of parchment were attached to the boards, then bound together. |
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