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.

Source Texts

Samaritan Pentateuch

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