Codex

1. n. A collection of canons.
2. n. A book; a manuscript.
3. n. A collection or digest of laws; a code.
4. n. An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.