(Rotulorum Clericus) meaning the Clerk of the Rolls or Clerk of the Register.

Replacement by the codex

The codex form of the book--that is, folding a scroll into pages, which made reading and handling the document much easier--appears during the Roman period. Stemming from a passage in Suetonius' Divus Julius (56.6), legend has it that Julius Caesar was the first to fold scrolls, concertina-fashion, for dispatches to his forces campaigning in Gaul. But the precise meaning of the passage is by no

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