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Codex
book with handwritten content / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A codex (plural codices) is a book-like object with writing on it.[1] On a codex there are separate pages bound together at one edge, whereas a scroll is one continuous long document. The term is used for book-type objects written by hand, and includes books written on vellum or parchment.
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The codex transformed the shape of the book itself. As an object, books can last for centuries, and many codices are in the great modern libraries.[2] The codex was first described by the 1st-century AD Roman poet Martial, who praised it. The codex was as common as scrolls by about AD 300.[3] It had completely replaced scrolls in the Greco-Roman world by the 6th century.[4]