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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rak/courses/735/book/codex-rev1.htmlTHE BIRTH OF THE CODEX
COLIN H. ROBERTS and T.C. SKEAT
(C) 1987 reissue [1983] The British Academy
Chapter 2
PAPYRUS AND PARCHMENT
Pages 7-8
parchment of good [Page 08] quality is the finest writing material ever devised by man. It is immensely strong, remains flexible indefinitely under normal conditions, does not deteriorate with age,{16}
Footnote
16/ Cf. Pliny, N.H. 13, 70, describing parchment as 'rei qua constat immortalitas hominum'. [[something that guarantees human immortality]]
Elliott
In The Birth of the Codex , published in 1983, his co-author, the late C. H. Roberts, and the author put forward, two alternative hypotheses to explain the extraordinary predilection of the early Christians for the codex form of book as opposed to the roll. When Colin Roberts published his magisterial monograph The Codex in 1954 there were 22 known papyrus fragments of the Gospels, ranging in date from the 2nd century to the 6th or 7th. Since then 20 more Gospel fragments have come to light, and again everyone is from a codex.
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