The Exeter Book, also known as the Codex Exoniensis, is a book (or, as some prefer, a codex) of Anglo_Saxon poetry from the 10th century. The book was donated to the library of the Exeter Cathedral by Leofric, the first bishop of Exeter. It is believed to have contained 131 leaves (pages) originally, of which the first 8 have been replaced with other leaves. The original 8 first pages are lost. The Exeter Book is the largest collection of Old English literature that exist.
Among the famous poems that appear in the Exeter Book are:
The codex was an improvement upon the scroll, which it gradually replaced, first in the West, and much later in Asia.
From the fourth century, when the codex gained wide acceptance, to the Carolingian Renaissance in the eighth century, many works that were not converted from scroll to codex were lost to posterity.
The codex also made it easier to organize documents in a library because it had a stable spine on which the title of the book could be written.
The codex was an improvement upon the scroll, which it gradually replaced as the written medium.
From the fourth century, when the codex gained wide acceptance, to the Carolingian Renaissance in the eighth century, many works that were not converted from scroll to codex were lost to posterity.
The codex also made it easier to organize documents in a library because it had a stable spine on which the title of the book could be written.
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