>
> Is there any record of how the codex came to be
> developed? It would seem to
> presume a method of binding, as well as a technology
> capable of cutting many
> pages to eactly the same size.
>
> One could, of course, take a scroll, eliminate the
> roller, and fold the
> scroll fanwise. I've seen this done in Japanese
> books but never in Europe.
>
The best and probably shortest thing to read is Skeat
and Roberts _The Birth of the Codex_ weighing in at
some 90-100 pages. If memory serves they find
evidence for codices in the first century CE, literary
evidence anyway.
I do think however, that regardless of whether the
contents of the Bible could be included under one
cover or not, there is a significant change in how the
"Bible" is viewed, a change I would trace to the early
modern period rather than to having a Bible in a
single book.
Larry Swain
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