codex

(noun)

An early manuscript book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.

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Examples of codex in the following topics:

  • Codices of the Aztecs

    • While the tradition of codex-painting endured over the transition to colonial culture, codex production declined under the control of Spanish authorities, suggesting Spanish influence or even censorship in codex production.
    • The Codex Borbonicus is a codex written by Aztec priests around the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
    • Codex Borbonicus can be divided into three sections.
    • The Codex Mendoza was composed around 1541.
    • The Libellus is also known as the Badianus Manuscript, the Codex de la Cruz-Badiano, or the Codex Barberini.

  • Carolingian Metalwork in the Early European Middle Ages

    • Important Carolingian examples of metalwork came out of Charles the Bald's "Palace School" workshop, and include the cover of the Lindau Gospels, the cover of the Codex Aureus of St.
    • Gold and gem-encrusted cover of the Codex Aureus of St.

  • Ottonian Illustrated Books in the Early European Middle Ages

    • He derived his title from the miniatures in the Registrum Gregorii (a collection of letters by Pope Gregory the Great) and the Codex Egberti, a famous gospel lectionary manuscript, both for Archbishop Egbert of Trier (circa 950-993, ).
    • However, most of the 51 images in the Codex Egberti, which represented events in the life of Jesus Christ, were made by two monks in the island monastery of Reichenau on Lake Constance.
    • The dedicatory page of the Codex Egberti.

  • The Early Middle Ages

    • One of the best examples of precious metalwork in medieval art is the jeweled Cover of the Codex Aureus of St.
    • The Codex is decorated with gems and gold relief, and can be accurately dated to 870, although the workshop in which it was made remains unknown.
    • Gold and gem-encrusted cover of the Codex Aureus of St.

  • The Justinian Code

    • Codex: a compilation, by selection and extraction, of imperial enactments to date, going back to Hadrian in the 2nd century AD.
    • Institutiones: a student textbook, mainly introducing the Codex, although it has important conceptual elements that are less developed in the Codex or the Digesta.
    • They were intended to be, together, the sole source of law; reference to any other source, including the original texts from which the Codex and the Digesta had been taken, was forbidden.
    • Many of the laws contained in the Codex were aimed at regulating religious practice, included numerous provisions served to secure the status of Christianity as the state religion of the empire, uniting Church and state, and making anyone who was not connected to the Christian church a non-citizen, as well as laws forbidding particular pagan practices, for example, that all persons present at a pagan sacrifice may be indicted as if for murder.

  • Codices of the Mixtec

    • The above detail from the Codex Zouche-Nuttall depicts a group of warriors conquering a town (an event noted by the warriors' drawn weapons and the arrow piercing the hill).
    • One example is the wedding scene, usually shown as two individuals of opposite sex facing each other and sitting on jaguar-pelt chairs, as illustrated by a scene from the Codex Zouche-Nuttall which records the marriage of the legendary Mixtec King 8 Deer "Tiger Claw" of Tilantongo to Lady 12 Snake in 1051 CE.

  • Colonialism and the Spread of Diseases

  • Anglo-Saxon and Irish Art

    • A different mixture is seen in the opening from the Stockholm Codex Aureus, where the evangelist portrait reflects an adaptation of Italian style (though adding interlace to the chair frame), while the text page is mainly in Insular style, especially in the first line, with its vigorous Celtic spirals and interlace.
    • The evangelist portrait from the Stockholm Codex Aureus, one of the "Tiberius group," that shows the Insular style and classicizing continental styles that combined and competed in early Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.

  • The Mixtec

    • The Codex Bodley measures 22 feet long and contains complex explanations of important family lineages and creation stories, such as the War of Heaven, that directly refer back to these elite dynasties.
    • This codex tells the story of the Tilantongo and Tiaxiaco dynasties.

  • The Decline of the Maya

    • These are known as the Madrid Codex, The Dresden Codex and the Paris Codex.
    • One of three surviving examples of Mayan writing, the Paris Codex offers keen insights into religious and patrilineal traditions before the Spanish invasion.