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Glossary

Codex

(pronounced ‘coad-ex'; the plural Codices is pronounced ‘coad-uh-sees')

A codex is an early type of book, containing papyrus or vellum pages that were sewn together. They were originally used in Roman times only for important legal documents, as most writing was still done on large papyrus rolls. The early Christians, however, quickly adopted the more travel-size codex as their own. Many of the oldest and most important copies of the Bible are contained in codices, including Codex Bezae (written in Greek and Latin during the fourth or fifth century CE), Codex Sinaiticus (written in Greek during the fourth century CE) and Codex Vaticanus (written in Greek during the fourth century and now kept in the Vatican library).

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