Strasbourg Codex
Appearance
The Strasbourg Codex is a traditional medieval codex, defined as being a book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials. The term is now usually only used of manuscript books, with hand-written contents, but describes the format that is now near-universal for printed books in the Western world. The book is usually bound by stacking the pages and fixing one edge to a bookbinding, which may just be thicker paper (paperback or softback), or with stiff boards, called a hardback, or in elaborate historical examples a treasure binding.
The book
History
The history of the codex is long and complicated, it spans six centuries, the rise and fall of nations and most of European history.
Secrets
