Word: codex
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Until 1947, Arthur Arberry kept himself clear of all this. Then one day a wealthy collector brought him a slim, yellowed volume of Persian poetry. Sure enough, reported Arberry, "There it was ... the oldest copy of Omar Khayyám's poems hitherto discovered ... The celebrated [Bodleian] codex had been bettered by exactly two centuries . . . This was more than human curiosity could resist...