as it were "the book (or manuscript) of Serafini"; the Latin noun codex referred to a book with pages (as opposed to a scroll), and is often applied in modern usage to a manuscript with pages, especially an antiquarian one. Harper, Douglas. «codex». Online Etymology Dictionary. Վերցված է 4 November 2013-ին. Seraphinianus is a Latinisation of the author's surname, Serafini (which in Italian, refers to the seraphs).
