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  CODEX ALIMENTARIUS
The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme.
The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Applications must be completed by the officially designated country's Codex Contact Point in full consultation with all interested parties and submitted by email to: codextrustfund@who.int or by fax to + 41 22 791 4807.
www.codexalimentarius.net   (309 words)

  
  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Codex Vaticanus
This codex is a quarto volume written in uncial letters of the fourth century, on folios of fine parchment bound in quinterns.
The Vatican Codex, in spite of the views of Tischendorf, who held for the priority of the Codex Sinaiticus, discovered by him, is rightly considered to be the oldest extant copy of the Bible.
It may be said that the Vatican Codex, written in the first half of the fourth century, represents the text of one of those recensions of the Bible which were current in the third century, and that it belongs to the family of manuscripts made use of by Origen in the composition of his Hexapla.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04086a.htm   (1294 words)

  
 Codex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The codex was an improvement upon the scroll, which it gradually replaced as the written medium.
From the fourth century, when the codex gained wide acceptance, to the Carolingian Renaissance in the eighth century, many works that were not converted from scroll to codex were lost to posterity.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Codex   (494 words)

  
 CODEX
CODEX is designed for applications with a moderate number of clients (tens or hundreds) requesting keys that change often but not continuously (on the scale of minutes to hours).
For CODEX, as for COCA, the assumptions are:
CODEX is released under a BSD-style license, which permits use and modification without restriction so long as proper attribution is included.
www.umiacs.umd.edu /~mmarsh/CODEX   (1551 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The codex format was probably developed as a way to make the contents of a document more readily accessible in contrast to the roll.
That the codex increased in use in comparison with the use of the roll is natural in view of the many obvious advantages of the leaf book, not the least of which is that it is more feasible to write on both sides of a leaf, and hence such a book is cheaper.
The most common form of the codex was made up of a number of "gatherings" sewn together and placed within a sturdy covering.
www.earlham.edu /~seidti/iam/codex.html   (312 words)

  
 Adoption of the Codex Book: Parable of a New Reading Mode
The adoption of the codex among early Christians is as explainable as the attraction of modern sectarians to cyberspace.
The codex bridges the transformation between initial correspondence and its eventual formalization as scripture as is exemplified by the literary history of letters of the apostle Paul to the early churches.
The codex was seen theatrically as a prompt for sermons and as a visual attribute of the iconography of teachers and Apostles.
aic.stanford.edu /sg/bpg/annual/v17/bp17-10.html   (5686 words)

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