She holds a scroll, he a codex, on both of which the writing is clearly legible. |
Whether codex or manuscript, they were here to love real books and real words. |
On the facing pages of chapter 1 is an exact transcription of the codex, haplographies, dittographies, misspellings, lacunae, and all. |
One example is this twelfth-century illumination from another Greek codex of the book of Job. |
For centuries before the codex became the normal form for the book, texts had been recorded on papyrus sheets glued together to form long rolls. |
He suggests that they indicate that the stone vessel may have originally contained a Maya codex, or ancient book. |