Codex
Codex noun - An unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll).
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Manuscript and codex are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Manuscript" instead a noun "Codex".
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Two particularly famous examples, the Voynich Manuscript and the Codex Seraphinianus, are often confused with each other because they're superficially very similar: Both are encyclopedias written in an unknown language, peppered with bizarre illustrations of otherworldly biology.
Source: Tome of Eldritch Lore - Codex Seraphinianus, created by Luigi Serafini in the 1970s, was inspired by the Voynich manuscript.
Source: Stock Unsolved Mysteries -
The bulk of these poems, however, is contained in a single manuscript, the Codex Regius, a work first compiled c.
Source: Literature / Poetic Edda
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