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To: editor-surveyor

A codex refers to the specific type of binding. Scrolls are not bound in the same fashion as a codex.

“a quire of manuscript pages held together by stitching: the earliest form of book, replacing the scrolls and wax tablets of earlier times.”

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/codices

Calling something a ‘codex of scrolls’ is a misnomer. Codexes are an upgrade from scrolls.


77 posted on 08/08/2013 9:36:53 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge

Most “codexes” are not bound at all.

Many do not even have ‘hard’ documents.

Your county’s official records system is termed a “codex,” and it consists of a number of “codexes” that are usually full of digital documents these days.

Codex mostly indicates an indexing system that permits easy access to specific pages or sets of pages.


84 posted on 08/09/2013 10:36:08 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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