A book is a written medium for documenting historical information in the form of text or pictures, usually written all along with a front cover and bound together. The most technical term for the physical arrangement of a book is codex. The word “codex” comes from the Greek word for book. In modern times, one generally refers to a single volume, while “codex” is used to refer to any bound collection of works of similar type.
One example of a bound collection of historical documents (such as the Summae of Pope Innocent III or the Works of Origen of Jerusalem) would be the “New Testament Concordance,” now in its third edition. In this book, we find the names of the authors, the main article(s) cited by every author, and the number of times they write in each article. (As we noted before, when an author uses the word “consensus,” he means a general agreement.) The New Testament Concordance thus consists of twenty volumes or, to use the terminology of the period, twenty-one volumes of part one of the Christian Bible, plus twenty-one volumes of part two.
Of course, a book cannot begin unless a prologue or foreword has been written. A prologue is like a preview of what is to follow, a sort of teaser. It may indicate what the author intends to show us through his text, but it does not give away the main point or focus of the work. Thus, in many works of fiction, the Prologue acts as a kind of foreword, a warning to readers that the main event is about to transpire.
A foreword, on the other hand, is not really a part of the text. Although sometimes an author puts in a foreword in order to emphasize his own previous achievements, most forewords simply provide an interesting background for the tale the author has told. They also suggest that additional reading will be of interest to those who have not yet read the entire book. Thus, a foreword may appear as the title page of a book or as a notice inserted after the table of contents.
As for an epilogue, this is often seen as the final chapter, the final section, or the end of the story. The epilogue tells what the author intends to do with the story as a whole and wraps up the plotline. Most modern writers prefer to write epilogies with the help of an epigraph, a term which refers to a line of poetry that begins a poem and terminates it. (A number of ancient Greek epigraphy forms are still in existence today, which provide the basis for some of the more familiar epilogue forms.)
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In terms of format, each of these parts of a book series generally corresponds to a logical book segment, whether that be a novel a serialized story, or a limited booklet. When an author writes a foreword, the reader already knows what comes next, while the epilogue offers something extra. Similarly, readers know what a sequel is going to reveal, but new readers might not be familiar with the specifics. Generally, the introduction serves as a guide for the remainder of the text but does not stand in the way of the story itself.