Sheets of parchment were folded to form quires from which book-form codices were fashioned.
Lenz (1948) refers to the role of community papermaker as a scribe, and as the official responsible for interment of individuals that wield power and for making codices.
This reading seems appropriate in this context, since both of the figures pictured in the almanac are wearing the robes commonly associated with priests throughout the codices.
I deliberately exclude from this definition manuscript codices whose contents comprise a wide expanse of subject matter, in the form of treatises written by a number of di#erent authors.
But beyond a handful of references to local events or personages found in several of the codices' texts, they had little on which to base their assessment.
Including 16,300 codices and fragments. 10015.
Agents of these two empires must have commissioned codices from expert scribes for official documents of this sort, which needed to be free of errors.
Because the reptile effigies on the columns match scenes in codices, the various column pairs may display specific mythical events.
