codex

Definitions

1. An early manuscript book.
2. A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
3. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

Equivalents

Examples

“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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