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Quotes About Codex

A rhyme turns an idea into a law; and, in a sense, each poem is a linguistic codex.
~ Joseph Brodsky
The Aztec Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, one of the few pre-Columbian books not destroyed by the Spanish, portray Mayahuel, goddess of the agave, breast-feeding her drunken rabbit children, presumably offering them pulque instead of milk.
~ Amy Stewart
Analysis of Aleppo Codex ... represents the Ben-Asher tradition, having been vocalized by Aaron Ben-Asher himself.
~ Angel Sáenz-Badillos
I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.
~ Robert Darnton
For a Latin work from ancient Rome to survive the next few centuries and beyond, it therefore needed to be transferred to parchment. But this conversion from roll to codex was reliant on the early Christians—the people who made the codices—deeming the writings of their pagan predecessors worthy of preservation and study.
~ Ross King
In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.
~ Alberto Manguel
Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. From Tiberias, the codex was taken to Jerusalem.
~ Ronen Bergman
Codex Magica is the first book ever to crack the Illuminati code. It is a fully documented, authoritative reference source, as you'll see from its lengthy index and footnotes sections. Now they won't be able to dodge and duck, because, in addition to my exclusive investigative materials, Codex Magica also heavily quotes and relies on the Illuminati's own, most touted textbooks and manuals.
~ Texe Marrs
No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.
~ Karen Chance
I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.
~ Dan Brown
since Balthasar's fortress, stood a carved camphorwood stand on which a large codex lay open. The book was bound in brass filigreed with copper and silver, and the pages were made of a parchment finer than I had ever seen.
~ Christopher Moore
The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.
~ Margaret Atwood