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).