| n. | 1. | A book; a manuscript. |
| 2. | A collection or digest of laws; a code. | |
| 3. | An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament. | |
| 4. | A collection of canons. |
| Noun | 1. | codex - an official list of chemicals or medicines etc. |
| 2. | codex - an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll) Synonyms: leaf-book |
CODEX. Literally, a volume or roll. It is particularly applied to the volume of the civil law, collected by the emperor Justinian, from all pleas and answers of the ancient lawyers, which were in loose scrolls or sheets of parchment. These he compiled into a book which goes by the name of Codex.
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