The images here compare two important “technologies” for reading, the scroll (left) and the codex (right). For a report contrasting these devices with the electronic screens readers use today, see Chapter 2.
Left: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy/De Agostini Picture Library/The Bridgeman Art Library. Right: Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain/The Bridgeman Art Library.