Dear, Larry, I mean pinax could be taken as a model for codex because this
form.
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From: "Larry Swain" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: Developing Concepts of "Bible" (was "Comments...")
> >
> > 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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