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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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 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Parts of the "Codex Argenteus", 187 of the original 336 parchment folia, were preserved at the former Benedictine abbey of Werden, (near Essen, Rhineland) among the richest monasteries of the Holy Roman Empire, whose abbots were imperial princes and had a seat in the imperial diets, where it was rediscovered in the 16th century.
Codex Argenteus - The Silver Bible PÅ SVENSKA The greatest gem among the manuscript treasures of the Uppsala University Library is the Codex Argenteus, the andquot;Silver Bibleandquot;.
Codex Argenteus - From Ravenna to Uppsala - The wanderings of a...
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The surviving catalogues of the abbey's library indicate that at the height of Lorsch's golden age in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the library was the best of its contemporaries.
The Lorsch Abbey's influence began to wane in the twelfth century as its abbots became more preoccupied with maintaining the cloister's independence from episcopal power and less concerned with the support of artistic and cultural endeavors.
Lorsch became a Cistercian house and was reduced to the rank of priory.
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 Read about Codex at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Codex and learn about Codex here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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 from the late first century, when
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 where arranged upright on shelves.
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 Codex - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex was the preferred format among Christians, while pagans preferred the roll.
This Christian revolution in media lies at the beginning of the history of the modern book at the juncture between pagan oral culture and one based firmly on written text.
Codex Borgia : A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript
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 Tertullian : The Lorsch MSS
Lorsch was founded by Count Chancor, a Frankish noble, around 740AD and became a Royal monastery in 772, acquiring considerable wealth and a magnificent library.
Lorsch was destroyed during the 30 Years War, and most of the loot of Lorsch ended up in the Palatine collection in the Bibliotheca Apostolica in the Vatican as part of the settlement.
It was written by two scribes in hands not of the Lorsch type in the second quarter of the ninth century, not many years after catalogue I. There are few corrections and no additions.
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 RARE BOOKS, BALOGH SCIENTIFIC BOOKS, ADEVA
The codex dates from about 784, Salzburg; carried on until the middle of the 13th century.Complete facsimile edition of the 39 pp.
The codex dates from the 1st half of the 13th century, Monastery of Rein.
Codex dates from the 1st half of the 15th century.
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 Ductus: Bibliography - Lowe (Loew) 1972b
that the practice may be African in origin (because of the large capitals evident in the Codex Palatinus), or that it may have originated with Cassiodorus at Vivarium, where it was a "pecularity".
It was not evident in papyrus rolls.The practice may be "ornamental" in origin, developing during the 4th century, "when the literary treasures of the past began to be transferred from papyrus roll to vellum codex".
The codex could be conveniently opened at a particular page, and the page became the unit.
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 Codex Aureus of Lorsch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Codex Aureus of Lorsch (also known as the Lorsch Gospels) was written between 778-820 during the period of Charlemagne.
It was located for the first time in Lorsch Abbey (Germany), where it was mentioned as Evangelium scriptum cum auro pictum habens tabulas eburneas in the catalogue of the Lorsch Abbey library, compiled in 830 under Abbot Adelung.
In the tenth and eleventh centuries, the library of Lorsch was the one of the best libraries of the world.
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 Antiquities of Philo Authorities
He employed the Fulda copy, and had previously obtained the use of one from Lorsch Abbey, which was very old, and had expected that these would provide the materials for a satisfactory edition; moreover, he had got wind of the existence of another copy.
At this point Sichardus has a marginal note: "Here the copies differed, but we have followed that of Lorsch, as being the older." Now this same gap is found in most, if not in all, of the other MSS., and not all of these are copied directly from the Fulda MS.
Dr. Lehmann's final remark is that the disappearance of the Lorsch MS.
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 Dbp5, a DEAD-box protein required for mRNA export, is recruited to the cytoplasmic fibrils of nuclear pore complex via ...
Although the precise mechanism by which these enzymes unwind RNA remains to be established, RNA helicases are thought to unwind short duplex regions in RNA molecules in a non-processive manner (Schmid and Linder, 1992; Gorbalenya and Koonin, 1993; Fuller-Pace, 1994).
P-labelled RNA probe was incubated with the recombinant purified proteins, and the resulting complexes were resolved in a native polyacrylamide gel and visualized by autoradiography (Figure 2A).
In the absence of nucleotides, hDbp5 did not interact with the RNA or the complexes formed were unstable (Figure 2A, lane 2).
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 Lorsch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lorsch is a small town in southwest Germany (60 kilometers south of Frankfurt) in the Kreis Bergstraße district of Hesse.
It is the site of a Benedictine Abbey famous for the Lorsch Codex, which was produced there around the end of the 12th century.
This page was last modified 23:06, 27 November 2005.
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 www.viernheim.de: history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The first written mention of the town was found in the Codex of Lorsch - according to these documents, Viernheim belonged to the monastery of Lorsch.
In 1308, Viernheim became property of the archbishop of Mainz.
With the creation of the district magistrate of Heppenheim in 1821, Viernheim belonged to the administration of Lorsch.
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 Pliny Letters, Fragment
The only exception which occurs to one is the Codex Bobiensis (k) of the Gospels of the fifth century, which may actually have been written in Africa, though this is far from certain.
As for our fragment, the details of its script, as well as the ornamentation, disposition of the page, the ink, the parchment, all find their parallels in authenticated Italian products; and this similarity in details is borne out by the general impression of the whole.
This is also the case in the Paris manuscript of Livy of the fifth century, in the Codex Bezae of the Gospels (published in facsimile by the University of Cambridge in 1899), in the Pliny palimpsest of St. Paul in Carinthia, and in many other manuscripts of the oldest type.
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 Medieval Studies Program Library Resources
Die Bibel des Patricius Leo: Codex Reginensis Graecus I B. (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Ms, Latin 4922)(Known as the Bible of Queen Christine of Sweden).
Codex Egberti der Staatbibliothek Trier, Vollfaksimilie-Ausgabe unter dem Patronat der Stadt Trier.
The Miniatures of the Chronicle of Manasse by Ivan Dujcev (Codex Vaticanus Slav II.).
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 Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Staufen im Breisgau (D)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Together with Bad Krozingen it forms a so-called 'Mittelzentrum' (a regional centre of medium size) south of Freiburg im Breisgau in southwestern Baden-Württemberg.
The oldest written mention of Staufen is found in the Codex of Lorsch (Codex Laureshamensis) of 1170/1175 which mentions the donation of domains in the villa Staufen in pago Brisigawo around 770 AD.
Mining activities in this region became important during the Middle Ages and are documented as early as 1028.
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 Thoughts on Antiquity: August 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The library/shelfmark for manuscript P is Montepellier 125, which was written in the early 9th cen.
P's text is closely related to the surviving five leaves of the Fragmenta Arouiensia (10th cen., Germany) and to an anthology written in the late 9th cen (St. Gall 870).
A team of experts from the UK, Europe, Egypt and Russia is currently digitising the parchment known as the Codex Sinaiticus, believed originally to have been one of 50 copies of the scriptures commissioned by Roman Emperor Constantine after he converted to Christianity.
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 National Team - U 18 - EC 2000 in Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Hoffenheim, district of the city of Sinsheim, today has 3,293 inhabitants and was first mentioned as Hovaheim in 773 in the Lorsch Codex.
Sinsheim was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex three years before Hoffenheim, in 770.
In 1067 Duke Zeisolf was given the market and minting rights even then being the basis to become a city.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Selected Sources
Codex Justinianus: Protection of Freewomen Married to Servile Husbands, c.
Codex Justinianus: Application of Patria Potestas to the Coloni, c.
Codex Justinianus: Coloni Bound to the Soil, c.
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 Biblical Antiquities of Philo: Introduction: 2. History of the Book
The whole volume is in Latin, and was edited by Joannes Sichardus: for the first three tracts he used two manuscripts, from Fulda and Lorsch, of which more hereafter.
In 1538 Henricus Petri (son of Adam) reprinted this collection in a quarto volume, which I have not seen, and in 1550 included it all in a larger collection of patristic writings called Micropresbyticon.
Fabricius would certainly have accorded it a place in his Codex pseudepigraphus Veteris Testamenti if he had read it: and very little escaped his notice.
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 Excerpted from History of Lehigh County pages 302-304, note Andrew Eisenhard is also listed elsewhere as Andreas ...
The following is an exact copy of one of five similar records in the writer’s, W. Eisenhart, possesion; it is a transcription from the Codex Laurishamensis of the Monastery of Lorsch, Germany.
Lorsch monastery was founed by the Benedictines in 763 A.D. The church was consecrated in the presence of the emporer Charles the Great (Charlemagne).
Lorsch is situated between the city of Worms and Bensheim in the Rhine Valley near Heidelberg.
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 VirtualTourist.com - Lich Tips - Pictures, Tips and Reviews
Bettenhausen was first recorded in 771 A.D. in the Lorsch Codex.
Eberstadt was first mentioned in 788 A.D. as a donation to Lorsch Monastery in the Lorsch Codex.
The church was built in 1692/93, and the wooden vestibul was built in 1770.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Otto the Great, King of Germany: Grant of a Market to the Monastery of Lorsch, 956   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A market was a local, as distinct from a foreign, place of trade.
King Otto permits the monastery at Lorsch, in which there is a place called Bensheim belonging to him, to erect a market....
"At the intervention of our beloved wife Adelheid we grant to the venerable abbot Gerbodo of the holy church at Lorsch that public markets should be created on a certain villa of the convent which is called Bensheim, for the use of the brothers serving God there."
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 Carolingian Empire: Imperial Title
This relationship between the throne and the dome mosaic is restated in the facing pages from the Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram made for Charles the Bald c.
Even without the connections to the Palace Chapel, the Imperial symbolism of these pages from the Codex Aureus are evident.
The Lorsch Gatehouse can also be compared to the Propylaeum that marked the entrance to the Church of St. Peter's in Rome:
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 Art Bulletin, The: On Carolingian book painters: The Ottoboni Gospels and its Transfiguration Master
If this represents the Transfiguration, its iconography is odd, including only two rather than three Apostles, although to be sure one needs to reckon with the dramatically limited available space.
It is also true that the scriptural passages with the Transfiguration episode (in Matthew, Mark, and Luke) are listed not on this page but on the previous page.
There is another closely linked example in the Lorsch Gospels, Alba Iulia, Biblioteca Batthyaneum ms R II.1, p.
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 Zander-Peppers Connection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Dirmstein was first mentioned in the Weissenburg Codex as Dirame Stein in the eighth century.
Later about 1110 the name can be found as Diremestein in an official Wormser document.
Obersülzen was first mentioned as Sulzheim in the Lorsch Kodex in 767.
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 Quantulacumque: Studies Presented to Kirsopp Lake - Questia Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
So also do the other two, for the most part, but these two manuscripts, which are related to one another, Boulogne 47 (saec.
ix, formerly at Lorsch), do occasionally make additions to the passages quoted by Jerome, and the interesting fact about these additions is that they are made from an Old-Latin, not from a Vulgate manuscript.
I wish we could say with certainty where these additions were made, in a common ancestor of our two manuscripts, but the evidence does not seem sufficient to settle the question with certainty.
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 Untitled Document
The Codex Amiatinus version of the scene has a lot more of the late antique source, in the more consistent use of perspective cues in establishing spatial relationships.
The point here is that the artist we see is not just a crude copies of the southern source, but a stylist of another ideal.
The gatehouse of Lorsch Monastery was once thought to be of Charlemagne’s time, though it is now seen as later.
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 Gospels
Der Codex Aureus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München
The Golden Gospels of Echternach, Codex aureus Epternacensis
Codex purpureus Rossanensis: edizione integrale in fac-simile del manoscritto
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 Untitled Document
The Codex Carolinus ('The Caroline Code'): King, Charlemagne, section 9; Loyn and Percival, no's 37-39.
The events of 799/800: The Liber Pontificalis; The Royal Frankish Annals and Revised version; the Lorsch Annals; Einhard's Vita Karoli; Bibliography no. 15.
How did the attack on Leo change the power relationship with the Frankish king, to what extent can the events of 25 Dec. 800 be seen as an attempt by the Pope to redress the balance?
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