codex
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The text formed part of what is known as a codex, where parchment sheets were folded to create pages and marked out to create book numbers to help readers navigate.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 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
A twelfth-century codex illustration shows the Byzantines using Greek fire to burn an enemy ship during a rebellion of the ninth century.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
By contrast, all but the very longest titles could easily be printed in a single codex.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
A symbol of status, carmine red was already employed by the nobility of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples to dye garments, and widely used in the arts, to write codices, decorate ceramics and paint murals.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
They also used codices, book-like records drawn on bark paper that combined both images and pictograms.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Starting from this perspective, Dr. Ezcurra and his co-authors present a calendar model that matches the location of the sun on the horizon to festivities cited in Mesoamerican codices.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
After the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century, colonizers destroyed countless codices as well as the Maya glyph system, and the long-term, quantitative sky tracking it enabled.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2022
As in other Nudzahui codices, the characters’ names are indicated by the accompanying circles-plus-head symbols.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing codex
Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires - Introductory
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