What does codex mean?
Codex means An early manuscript book..
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/ˈkəʊdɛks/ · noun
An early manuscript book..
From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility.
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Codex means An early manuscript book..
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From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility.
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