Codex

From the skin of sheep or goats a fine quality of leather was specially and carefully prepared for writing on both sides. They were glued into book form, this was called a Codex. The codex made it possible to have much more Scripture in one place.

The main Old Testament Codex manuscripts that have been discovered are:

The Leningrad Codex or St. Petersburg Codex, written in 916 AD.
The Cairo Codex or Codex Cairensis, 895 AD.
The Aleppo Codex, written in 930 AD.
The British Museum Codex, written in 950 AD.

The main New Testament Codex manuscripts that have been discovered are:

The John Rylands Fragment (125 AD).
Papyrus Bodmer II (200 AD).
Codex Sinaiticus (340 AD).
Codex Vaticanus (350 AD).
Codex Alexandrinus (450 AD).

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