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Code of Linzhi

The Code of Linzhi (麟趾格) was a penal code of China's Eastern Wei dynasty, compiled under Gao Cheng in the Xinghe era and used until the Heqing era.

Code of Lipit-Ishtar

The Code of Lipit-Ishtar, also called the Laws of Lipit-Ishtar, is a Sumerian-language legal collection attributed to Lipit-Ishtar, fifth king of the First Dynasty of Isin.

Code of the United States Fighting Force

Code of the United States Fighting Force, or Code of Conduct for Members of the Armed Forces, is a six-article ethical code set by Eisenhower's Executive Order 10631 in 1955 after Korean War POW collaboration, governing combat, surrender, escape, and captivity conduct.

Code of Ur-Nammu

Code of Ur-Nammu, oldest surviving written law code, Sumerian, c. 2100-2050 BCE, Third Dynasty of Ur, attributed to Ur-Nammu or Shulgi, 57 laws, silver fines instead of lex talionis, discovered at Nippur 1948, translated by Kramer 1952.

Code of Vakhtang VI

The Code of Vakhtang VI (ვახტანგ VI-ის სამართლის წიგნი) is a collection of Georgian laws compiled in 1705–08, combining old Georgian and foreign law books with Vakhtang's own new law.

Code page 437

Code page 437 (CP437, PC-ASCII) is the original 1981 IBM PC 8-bit character set and first DOS code page: ASCII plus box-drawing, Greek, math, and pictograph characters in 0x80-0xFF, distinct from Windows-1252 and losslessly convertible to Unicode.

Code Rural (Haiti)

The Code Rural was an 1826 Haitian law issued under President Jean-Pierre Boyer that required rural cultivators to contract themselves to landowners and punished refusal to work as vagabondage.

Code talker

Code talkers were American Indian soldiers who used coded versions of tribal languages for secure battlefield communications in both world wars, beginning with 19 Choctaw soldiers in France in 1918 and including about 400 Navajo Marines in the Pacific in World War II; the Navajo code was never deciphered.

Code-switching

Code-switching, also called code-mixing or language alternation, is the alternating use of two or more languages or varieties within one conversation. Distinguished from style-shifting and translanguaging; grammatically constrained and studied in sociolinguistics, education, and NLP.

Codemao (编程猫)

Codemao (编程猫) is a Shenzhen company, founded in 2015 by Li Tianchi and Sun Yue, that teaches coding and AI to children and school students.

Codependency

Codependency, a non-DSM behavioral pattern of prioritizing another's needs and enabling self-destructive behavior, emerged in 1970s addiction treatment, faces feminist critiques, and is measured by scales like the Holyoake Codependency Index.

Codetermination

Codetermination (Mitbestimmung) is the legally mandated participation of employees in firm governance, most prominently through employee seats on German supervisory boards under laws from 1951 to 1976.

Codex

A codex is a bound book of quires of papyrus, parchment, or paper sheets sewn at a spine, distinct from the scroll. Widely adopted from the 2nd century AD and favored by early Christians, it became the standard book form.

Codex Amiatinus

The Codex Amiatinus is an early eighth-century pandect, a single-volume Latin Vulgate Bible made at Wearmouth-Jarrow under Abbot Ceolfrith, the oldest complete Vulgate Bible extant, now in Florence.

Codex Aubin

The Codex Aubin, also called the Códice de 1576 or Historia de la nación mexicana, is a pictorial Nahuatl chronicle of Aztec history painted in Mexico in 1576.

Codex Azcatitlan

The Codex Azcatitlan is a colonial-era Mexican pictorial manuscript recounting Mexica history from the migration out of Aztlán to the founding of Tenochtitlan and the Spanish conquest.

Codex Borbonicus

The Codex Borbonicus (Códice Borbónico) is an early sixteenth-century Aztec pictorial manuscript on amate paper recording the Aztec calendars, painted around 1520 and kept in Paris since 1826.

Codex Borgia

The Codex Borgia (Códice Borgia) is a pre-Hispanic ritual and divinatory screenfold manuscript from central Mexico, named for Cardinal Stefano Borgia and held in the Vatican Library.

Codex Chimalpahin

The Codex Chimalpahin is a three-volume collection of seventeenth-century manuscripts in Nahuatl and Spanish preserving the works of Nahua historians Chimalpahin and Ixtlilxóchitl, repatriated by Mexico's INAH in 2014 and held in Mexico City.

Codex Cospi

The Codex Cospi is a pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican divinatory manuscript of the Borgia Group, painted by eastern Nahua artists in central Mexico, one of only fourteen surviving pre-colonial Mesoamerican manuscripts.

Codex Gigas

Codex Gigas (Devil's Bible, Obří kniha), the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript: a 75 kg, 92 cm Bohemian Latin codex of about 1204–1230 with the Vulgate, Josephus, Isidore, and a full-page Devil portrait, now in Stockholm.

Codex Leicester

The Codex Leicester is Leonardo da Vinci's scientific notebook of about 1504 to 1508, the only one of his notebooks still privately held, by Bill Gates since 1994.

Codex Mendoza

The Codex Mendoza (Códice Mendoza) is an Aztec pictorial manuscript commissioned around 1542 by Antonio de Mendoza, first viceroy of New Spain, recording Mexica conquests, tribute, and daily life.

Codex Osuna

The Codex Osuna, also known as the Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes y Regidores de México, is a 1565 set of Nahua pictorial complaints against Spanish colonial officials in Mexico City.

Codex Pérez

The Codex Pérez (Códice Pérez) is a colonial-era compilation of Yucatec Maya historical and calendrical texts assembled by the Yucatecan scholar Juan Pío Pérez around 1838.

Codex Selden

Codex Selden, also known as Codex Añute, is a Mixtec pictorial screenfold manuscript in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, recording the dynastic history of Jaltepec, Oaxaca, from 783 to 1556.

Codex Sinaiticus (Κώδικας Σιναϊτικός)

Codex Sinaiticus (Κώδικας Σιναϊτικός) is a fourth-century Greek Bible codex, the earliest surviving manuscript of the complete New Testament, written on parchment and named for St Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai.

Codex Tudela

The Codex Tudela, or Códice Tudela, is a 16th-century colonial codex from central Mexico depicting Aztec religion, held in the Museo de América in Madrid.

Codex Vaticanus

Codex Vaticanus, also known as Uncial B, is a 4th-century parchment codex of the Greek Bible in the Vatican Library, usually considered the best pre-Hexaplaric Septuagint text.

Codex Vaticanus B

Codex Vaticanus B, also called Codex Vaticanus 3773, is a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Mesoamerican pictorial divinatory manuscript of the Borgia Group, held in the Vatican Library.