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).