The word codex comes from the Latin word caudex, meaning "trunk of a tree", "block of wood" or "book". The codex began to replace the See more

The first stage in creating a codex is to prepare the animal skin. The skin is washed with water and lime but not together. The skin is soaked in the lime for a couple of days. The hair is removed, and the skin is dried by attaching it to a frame, called a herse. The … See more

1. ^ "codex". The Chambers Dictionary (9th ed.). Chambers. 2003. ISBN 0-550-10105-5.
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The Romans used precursors made of reusable wax-covered tablets of wood for taking notes and other informal writings. Two ancient polyptychs, a pentaptych and octoptych excavated at See more

Among the experiments of earlier centuries, scrolls were sometimes unrolled horizontally, as a succession of columns. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a famous example of this format, and it is the standard format for Jewish Torah scrolls made to this day for … See more

• Grimoire
• History of books
• History of scrolls
• List of codices
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• Diringer, David (1982). The Book Before Printing: Ancient, Medieval and Oriental. New York: Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-24243-9.
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