codex
nounUK /ˈkəʊdɛks/ · US /ˈkoʊdɛks/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin cōdex, variant form of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany). Doublet of code.
1
An early manuscript book.
2
A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
- 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. The progenitor of the modern bound book, the codex gradually supplanted the scroll, a medium inimical to the indexer’s art.2022 February 15, Margalit Fox, “Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2022:
3
An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.
- Derived terms
- cryptex
- Related terms
- caudex, code, codicology, codify, codification, codifier, stemma codicum, dispensatory, formulary, pharmacopoeia