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To: Unam Sanctam

The Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus both date from the 4th century, and are the oldest known more-or-less complete manuscripts to bind most of the modern books of the Bible into a single codex.

Prior to the popularisation of the codex format there was no such thing as a “Bible,” since the different books were kept as separate scrolls.


24 posted on 02/06/2009 11:02:19 AM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: Philo-Junius
Of course, the transition from scroll to codex was not without difficulty:


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30 posted on 02/06/2009 11:13:06 AM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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