Parchment vs. Codex — What's the Difference?

Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves, and goats. It has been used as a writing medium for over two millennia.

The codex (plural codices () was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials.

The skin of a sheep or goat prepared as a material on which to write or paint.

A manuscript volume, especially of a classic work or of the Scriptures.

A written text or drawing on a sheet of this material.

An early manuscript book.

Paper made in imitation of this material.

A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.

Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.

An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

A document made on such material.

A book; a manuscript.

A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).

A collection or digest of laws; a code.

Stiff paper imitating that material.

An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament.

The creamy to tanned color of parchment.

A collection of canons.

The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.

An official list of chemicals or medicines etc.

The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.

An unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll)

The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.

A superior paper resembling sheepskin

Skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on