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[koh-deks] / ˈkoʊ dɛks /




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One can’t possibly grasp the closeness two people share until they’ve experienced firsthand the joy and indescribable pain that come with the kind of enmeshment written in fate’s codex.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Ancient Aztec communities from the pre-Columbian period of Mesoamerica had a rich mythological codex that was also part of their ritual and sacrificial ceremonies.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024

The pair turn into a tracking device when Venom fully manifests, and the codex can be destroyed only if one of them dies, so the story is essentially a chase movie through the American Southwest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

The codex was bought by the University of Mississippi where it remained until 1981, and was acquired several times before being purchased by Norwegian manuscript collector Dr Martin Schøyen in 1988.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024

By contrast, all but the very longest titles could easily be printed in a single codex.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

The temporary exchange of the two codices was agreed by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, during a visit by the latter to Mexico last year.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

They also used codices, book-like records drawn on bark paper that combined both images and pictograms.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Authors penned chivalric romances and heroic tales of knights battling fantastic monsters and traveling to exotic lands—think, Beowulf and King Arthur—by hand onto parchment and eventually paper codices.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 16, 2022

The reassembled pages of his once-scattered codices have been reproduced for display in this exhibition; visitors can also explore digitized versions of the codices in-depth using touchscreens.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

The tlamatini, who “himself was writing and wisdom,” was expected to write and maintain the codices and live in a way that set a moral example.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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