| The Sierra codex was a document written by the master historian and master of deception, Crassus Syra, a runaway from home disguised as a man. |
| 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. |
| Like a medieval codex, the book seems laced with charms and spells, to seduce the innocent and repel the hostile. |
| On the facing pages of chapter 1 is an exact transcription of the codex, haplographies, dittographies, misspellings, lacunae, and all. |
| Through the Vatican codex the text sets up an expectation that is then fulfilled in the images. |
| One example is this twelfth-century illumination from another Greek codex of the book of Job. |
