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unusual facts about The Codex



Alexander Winn

In late 2004, Winn, along with Ryan Luther, co-founded Edgeworks Entertainment to produce a new Halo 2 machinima series called The Codex.

Podtacular

Other members from the Xbox and Halo communities also attended as guests on the show, including: Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) from Xbox, Matt Hullum from Rooster Teeth Productions, Alexander Winn and Ryan Luther from The Codex, Damian and Fyb3roptik from This Spartan Life, KP from Bungie, and many more.


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Aachen Cathedral Treasury

These items included the Karlsschrein, the Marienschrein, Bust of Charlemagne, the Cross of Lothar, the ivories, the codices, and the two great Gothic reliquaries (Charlemagne's reliquary and Three Towers reliquary).

Abdias of Babylon

The text of the compiler who may then be called the Pseudo-Abdias may be found in Constantin von Tischendorf, and in the Codex Apocryphus Novi Testimenti of Johann Albert Fabricius.

August Horislav Škultéty

He also wrote Slovak folk fairy tales together with Štefan Marko Daxner and Čipka, which were collected to the Codex Tisovský and later became the source to Dobšinský Slovenské Povesti.

Boxer Codex

The codex was among what remained in his collection when his estate, Holland House in London, suffered a direct hit during an air raid in 1942.

Cambridge Songs

They may have been collected by an English scholar while travelling on the continent sometime after the last datable song (1039), and brought back with him to the church of Saint Augustine at Canterbury, where they were copied and where the Codex was long kept.

Code of Euric

The Codex Euricianus or Code of Euric was a collection of laws governing the Visigoths compiled at the order of Euric, King of Spain, sometime before 480, probably at Toulouse (possible at Arles); it is one of the earliest examples of early Germanic law.

Codex Amiatinus

In 1888 Giovanni Battista de Rossi established that the Codex was related to the Bibles mentioned by Bede.

Codex Aureus of Echternach

The Codex Aureus of Echternach (Codex aureus Epternacensis) (Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 156142) is an 11th-century illuminated Gospel Book, created in the approximate period 1030 and 1050.

Codex Aureus of Lorsch

A facsimile of the codex was presented as a gift to Queen Elizabeth II by Pope Benedict XVI on 16 September 2010, who in turn received a series of Hans Holbein prints from the royal collection.

Codex Basilensis A. N. III. 12

The codex was available to Erasmus for his translation of the New Testament in Basel, but he never used it.

Codex Borgia

The Codex Borgia is presently housed in the Apostolic Library, the Vatican.

Codex Climaci Rescriptus

In 2010, the codex was bought by Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby, directly from Sotheby's after their unsuccessful auction.

Codex Coislinianus

The codex was probably written in the 6th century at the library in Caesarea, later coming into the possession of the monastery of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos, but its value appears to have been overlooked.

Codex Eyckensis

The Codex is now on display in the St. Catherine church in Maaseik, Belgium.

Codex Floriacensis

According to the inscription on folio 130 it belonged in the 11th century to the famous Benedictine Abbey of Fleury on the Loire (hence name of the codex).

Codex Laud

The Codex Laud, or Laudianus, (catalogued as MS. Laud Misc. 678, Bodleian Library in Oxford) is an important sixteenth century manuscript associated with William Laud, an English archbishop who was the former owner of this ancient Mexican codex.

Codex Legionensis

The Codex Legionensis, designated l or 67 (in the Beuron system), is a 7th century Latin script of the Old and New Testament.

Codex Marchalianus

It was suggested by Ceriani in 1890 that the text of the codex represents Hesychian recension; but Hexaplaric signs have been freely added, and the margins supply copious extracts from Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, and the Septuaginta of the Hexapla.

Codex Nanianus

The first collator of the codex was Friedrich Münter (1761–1830), who sent some extracts from the text of the codex to Andreas Birch.

Codex Radziwiłł

The manuscript once belonged to the polish high noble family Radziwiłł — like ℓ 34 — hence name of the codex.

Codex Sangermanensis I

In 1865, Johann Gildemeister (1812-1890), later Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Bonn, personally discovered that dormibunt was the last word of one leaf of the Codex Sangermanensis and primus (with a small P) the beginning word on the next leaf - but that one leaf which had once been between them had been cut out of the Codex.

Codex Tchacos

National Geographic, which restored and conserved of the codex, has also created a two-hour television documentary, The Gospel of Judas, which aired worldwide on the National Geographic Channel on April 9, 2006.

Codex Tischendorfianus III

The codex was held at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in Egypt and was found by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1853, who took away only the uncial text (Luke-John) — along with Codex Tischendorfianus IV — and brought it to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, where it is now located.

Codex Vaticanus Ottobonianus Latinus 1829

Later the codex was lost: it was probably housed in the Vatican Library for a very long time, hidden under a false catalogue number, until it was rediscovered in 1896 by William Gardner Hale.

Codex Vercellensis

The title Codex Vercellensis (the "Codex of Vercelli") refers to two manuscript codices preserved in the cathedral library of Vercelli, in the Piedmont Region, Italy.

Codex Zacynthius

William Hatch in 1937, on the basis of palaeographical data, suggested that the codex should be dated to the 6th century.

Engelberg Codex

A recording with 18 pieces from the codex entitled Engelberg 314 by the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) was published in 1990 by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (DHM), the label of Sony BMG predominantly devoted to preclassical music.

Filarete

The fact that the Codex Magliabechiano is dedicated to Piero de' Medici and was conserved in Florence suggests that Filarete was well regarded in his native Florence despite his loyalty to Milan.

Frederic Madden

Many manuscripts had become brittle and fragile, including the codex that contains the only known copy of Beowulf (Cotton Vittelius A xv).

Frostathing Law

The Håkon Håkonsson version is also known as the Codex Resenianus, after the historian Peder Hansen Resen who gave the only surviving version to the University of Copenhagen (unfortunately later destroyed in the 1728 fire at the Copenhagen Library).

Gertrude Psalter

In the 12th century, the codex was in the possession of the Andechs-Merania family, and was given to Elizabeth of Hungary either by her mother, Gertrude of Merania, or by her aunt, Saint Hedwig of Andechs.

Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi

Together with the well-known scriptural scholar Carlo Vercellone, he supervised the printing of the Greek text of the Codex Vaticanus, in five volumes (Rome, 1868–81); he also edited other scriptural manuscripts, e.g. the Greek codex of Daniel in the Chigi Library at Rome.

Lectionary 175

Currently the codex is located in the New York Public Library, (Rare Books and Manuscripts Divisions, Ms. 103) at New York.

Lectionary 2005

The codex was divided, and now two of its folios are located at the Byzantine Museum (Frg. 42) in Athens, 1 folio is located in the Bible Museum (MS. 20) in Münster.

Lectionary 32

Currently the codex is located in the Landesbibliothek (Memb. I 78) in Gotha.

Midrash Hashkem

In the editions as well as in the codex this first passage, as well as the beginning of the following haggadic passage to Ex. ix.

Minuscule 2814

The codex was located in Harburg (Öttingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek), and was transferred together with the whole library to the library of University of Augsburg (I, 1, 4 (0), 1).

Minuscule 44

The codex was brought from Athos to England by César de Missy (1703-1775), French chaplain of George III, King of England, who spent his life in collecting materials for an edition of the New Testament.

Minuscule 45

The codex was brought from the Athos to England by César de Missy (1703-1775), French chaplain of George III, King of England, who spent his life in collecting materials for an edition of the New Testament.

Notitia Dignitatum

The most important copy of the Codex is that made for Pietro Donato (1436), illuminated by Peronet Lamy.

Papyrus 49

The text of the codex was published by William Hatch and Bradford Welles in 1958 (editio princeps).

Richeza of Lotharingia

The Codex itself is built around 1040, probably in Maasland, and incomplete in its ornamentation: the Evangelists Mark and Luke are complete drawned, but only in a preliminary sketch.

Rossano Gospels

The codex was discovered in 1879 in the Italian city of Rossano by Oskar von Gebhardt and Adolf Harnack, in the sacristy of Rossano Cathedral.

Splendor Solis

As for the history of the codex itself, Baron Böttger, the famous pharmacist and great adept of alchemy who invented the porcelain manufacturing method, was apparently one of its owners in the 17th century.

Stockholm Codex Aureus

The Stockholm Codex Aureus (Stockholm, Swedish Royal Library, MS A. 35, also known as the "Codex Aureus of Canterbury") is a Gospel book written in the mid-eighth century in Southumbria, probably in Canterbury, whose decoration combines Insular and Italian elements.

Tatian

After the Codex Fuldensis, it would appear that members of the Western family lead an underground existence, popping into view over the centuries in an Old High German translation (c. 830), a Dutch (c. 1280), a Venetian manuscript of the 13th century, and a Middle English manuscript from 1400 that was once owned by Samuel Pepys.

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar

After proving his or her understanding in each of the virtues, locating several artifacts and finally descending into the dungeon called the Stygian Abyss to gain access to the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom, the protagonist becomes an Avatar.

Uncial 0211

The codex currently is housed at the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts (Gr. 27) in Tbilisi, Georgia (not to be confused with the American state).

Vaassen

The town is mentioned for the first time in a certificate from the Codex Laureshamnensis of the monastery of Lorschin the year 891 or 892, when someone called "Brunhilde" gave a farmhouse and the church to Lorsch.