Linked from

The 20 pages that link to Codex, each with the reason it gives.

• History of booksBroader topic: Its bound pages replaced the scroll as the principal format for many books.

• ManuscriptBroader topic: Many historical manuscripts survive as codices, whose pages enabled browsing and annotation.

• ParchmentRelated: Parchment's foldable sheets suited the codex form that displaced many scrolls.

• BookbindingNarrower topic: The codex created the basic page-and-spine form that bookbinding develops.

• Manuscript cultureRelated: The codex made handwritten texts easier to browse, annotate, and bind together.

• Medieval manuscriptNarrower topic: Most medieval manuscripts took this bound-book form.

• Carolingian minusculeRelated: Carolingian minuscule spread through handwritten books assembled as codices.

• CodicologyNarrower topic: Codicology chiefly examines the physical form represented by the codex.

• HandscrollCompared with: A codex organizes content into separate pages instead of a continuous rolled surface.

• Textual transmissionBroader topic: The codex changed how written works were organized, stored, and copied.

• Nag Hammadi libraryNarrower topic: The library survives as bound manuscripts rather than as a single scroll.

• BookBroader topic: The codex is the bound-page form now commonly meant by “book.”

• History of writingRelated: The codex changed how written texts were organized, consulted, and circulated.

• Manuscript traditionRelated: Many manuscript witnesses survive as codices rather than rolls.

• History of librariesRelated: The codex changed how texts could be stored, handled, and consulted in collections.

• Codex GigasNarrower topic: Its bound leaves make the manuscript a codex in the technical sense.

• Book (publication)Narrower topic: The codex established the bound-page structure characteristic of books today.

• Great Mongol ShahnamehRelated: The manuscript’s pages were assembled as a book rather than a scroll.

• Voynich manuscriptNarrower topic: Its bound leaves make the manuscript a codex whose page order and gatherings can be studied.

• Writing (written work)Related: The codex changed how longer works could be organized, consulted, and carried.