Editing Rohonc Codex (section)

==Features==
[[File:Roch codex illustr.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|right|An illustration in the Rohonc Codex]]

The codex has 448 paper pages measuring {{convert|12|×|10|cm}}, with each page having between 9 and 14 rows of symbols, which may or may not be letters. Besides the text, there are 87 illustrations that include religious, laic, and military scenes. The crude illustrations seem to indicate an environment where [[Christianity|Christian]], [[paganism|pagan]], and [[Islam|Muslim]] religions coexist, as the symbols of the [[Christian cross|cross]], [[crescent]], and sun/[[swastika]] are all present.

The number of symbols used in the codex is about ten times higher than any known alphabet, with Némäti (1889) having counted 792, but most symbols are used with little repetition, so the symbols in the codex might not be an alphabet, but instead a [[syllabary]], or be [[logograph]]ic in nature, such as [[Chinese characters]]. The [[Justification (typesetting)|justification]] of the right margin would seem to imply the symbols were written from right to left.{{sfn|Jerney|1844}}{{page needed|date=June 2024}}

Study of the paper on which the codex is written shows that it is most probably a [[Venice|Venetian]] paper made in the 1530s.{{sfn|Jerney|1844}}{{page needed|date=June 2024}}{{sfn|Némäti|1892}}{{sfn|Láng|2011}}{{page needed|date=June 2024}} This does not provide certainty as to the date of the text, however, since it may have been transcribed from an earlier source, or the paper could have been used long after it was produced. Taking a clue from the illustrations, Láng speculates it was most likely created sometime in the 16th-17th centuries.{{efn|According to [[Joe Nickell]] the pages were written not long after the production of the paper; see {{harvnb|Láng|2011|p=53}}.}}