| Linguistic or numerical listing was employed and the storage media were clay tablets, papyrus codices, leather scrolls or hieroglyphics. |
| Much might be said on the codices and books that have been left us by the historians. |
| Three codices survived the vandalism of Bishop Landa and these three burned around the edges. |
| In the codices, on the other hand, some little progress has made been in reading glyphs of the second group. |
| Early codices were made of papyrus but later developments replaced this by vellum. |
| A significant group of Frankish legal codices reflects the activity of a small group of scribes presided over by the cancellarius and associated with the royal court. |
