Table of Contents
List of Books and Abbreviations vii
Illustrations ix
Preface xxi
Chapter 1 Towards a Typology of the Codex 1
Chapter 2 The Dimensions of Papyrus and Parchment Codices 13
Table 1 Papyrus Codices Grouped by Dimensions 14
Table 2 Parchment Codices Classified by Dimensions 26
Appendix Note on the evidence of Latin codices written on parchment 32
Chapter 3 The Priority of Parchment or Papyrus? 35
Table 3 Papyrus Codices Written in Two Columns 36
Table 4 Summary Table of Totals (by centuries) of Papyrus Codices 37
Table 5 Detailed List of Early Parchment Codices 39
Appendix The date of the Berlin Cretans 41
Chapter 4 Manufacture and Size 43
Chapter 5 How a Codex Was Made Up 55
Table 6 List of Single-Quire Codices 58
Table 7 List of "Uniones" 61
Table 8 List of "Terniones" 61
Table 9 List of "Quaterniones" 62
Table 10 List of "Quiniones" 64
Table 11 Alternation of Fiber Direction in the Gatherings of Papyrus Codices 66
Chapter 6 The Codex and the Scribe 73
Table 12 Contents of Bodmer Composite Codex (Codices) 79
Chapter 7 The Form and Date of the Earliest Codices 89
Table 13 Inventory of Papyrus and Parchment Codices Dated Before c.iv 89
Table 14 Codices Having Fifty or More Lines to a Page 96
Table 15 Codices Having a Square Written Area (β measurement) 98
Table 16 Consolidated List of Codices Consulted 101
Technical Index 187
