Codex
A codex is a book of bound sheets of parchment. It had pages, and was thus quite different from a scroll
The advantages of a codex were:
- a codex could contain far more text than a scroll;
- in a codex, it was much easier to look up a given passage, as you could turn the pages.
The first codices (plural of codex) date from around the first century AD.
The Sacred Books as Codex
In the Jewish tradition, the Hebrew books
At a certain point in the Middle Ages, the Hebrew text of the Old Testament was also written on codices. One of the medieval codices with the Hebrew text of the Old Testament is the Codex Leningradensis
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