Codex (Early Book Form)
Transition from scrolls to bound pages, improving ease of use, random access, and storage of written information.
Core metadata
- ID: codex_early_book_form
- Era: Classical
- First known date: 100 (century)
- Region: Greco-Roman world / Egypt and Rome
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Leather Working (leather_working)
- Papyrus & Parchment Writing Surfaces (paper_making_papyrus_parchment)
- Wax Tablets (wax_tablets)
- Writing (writing)
Dependents
- Book Binding (Codex Production) (book_binding_codex_production)
- Monasticism and Scriptoriums (monasticism_and_scriptoria)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- The beginnings of the Codex (British Library, 2015, museum) • Supports: node
Locator: British Library explains the first-century-to-late-antique transition from rolls to codices and identifies Papyrus 745 as an early Latin codex fragment dated to the late first or early second century.
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 4
- Average edge confidence: 70%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 4
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Papyrus & Parchment Writing Surfaces (paper_making_papyrus_parchment) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Paper Making (Papyrus/Parchment) provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Writing (writing) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Writing is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
|
| Leather Working (leather_working) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Leather Working provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Wax Tablets (wax_tablets) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Wax Tablets provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
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