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  Encyclopedia: Codex Zamoscianus
Codex Zamoscianus is the oldest known / preserved manuscript copy of the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, written on parchment and dating from the end of the 13th century.
The codex is incomplete with the text of the Chronicle ending in the 23rd chapter.
The Codex Zamoscianus is presently in the Polish National Library in Warsaw.
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 Codex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From the 4th century, when the codex gained wide acceptance to the Carolingian Revival in the 8th century many works were not converted from scroll to codex and 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, and later read when books were arranged upright on shelves.
The codex is the songbook used at a cantus.
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 Codex Usserianus Primus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Codex Usserianus Primus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Codex Usserianus Primus (Dublin, Trinity College Library, 55) is an early 7th Century Old Latin Gospel Book.
The manuscript is damaged, with the leaves being fragmentary and discolored.
It may therefore be the earliest surviving Irish codex.
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 Codex -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A codex ((Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome) Latin for (A major division of a long written composition) book; plural codices) is a handwritten book from late (The historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe) Antiquity or the (Click link for more info and facts about Early Middle Ages) Early Middle Ages.
The correct Latin plural is codices, although codexes is also often used as a plural form in (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English.
The codex also made it easier to organize documents in a (A depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study) 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.
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 Codex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Although the Romans used the codex and similar precursors made of wood for taking notes and other informal writings, the first recorded use of the codex for literary works dates to Martial in the late first century, who experimented with the medium.
From the 4th century, when the codex gained wide acceptance to the Carolingian RenaissanceCarolingian Revival in the 8th century/ many works were not converted from scroll to codex and were lost to posterity.
The codex was an improvement over the scroll (parchment)scroll, because it can be opened flat at any page, allowing easier reading, and pages can be written on both sides.
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 Codex Exoniensis - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Codex Exoniensis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Codex Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses
Codex Iustiniani (Latin: Justinian Codex, Codices And Manuscripts)
Codex Juris Canonici (Latin: Codex of the Canon Law)
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 Codex Zamoscianus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Codex Zamoscianus is the oldest extant manuscript copy of the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia.
It is written on parchment and dates from the end of the 13th century.
This page was last modified 04:26, 4 August 2005.
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 Codex Zamoscianus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Codex Zamoscianus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Codex Zamoscianus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Codex Zamoscianus.
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The orginal Codex Zamoscianus article can be editet
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 codex_wallerstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 Internetowa baza hase³   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Z tym, że - z tego co widziałem na rumuńskich stronach - hasło powinno mieć tytuł "Rohonczi Codex", a nie "kodeks Rohonczi".
Ja jestem za "Codex Rohonczi" Xcor 07:29, 28 mar 2005 (CEST)
Poza tym "kodeks" po polsku znaczy co innego, niż "codex" po łacinie, więc gdyby już tłumaczyć, to jako "księga", ale to tylko na marginesie.
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