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Codex usually does not mean stone, but more like a book (albeit usually something like vellum instead of paper)
by bawolff 3y ago
Codex usually does not mean stone, but more like a book (albeit usually something like vellum instead of paper)
- Telemakhos 3y agoCodex means a book in the modern sense of bound leaves one can flip through for random access to any one page. The opposite is volume or scroll, which involves sequential reading or scrolling to arrive at a particular page (like tape storage).