documents from this period are the two major fourth-century Alexandrian codices (for detailed information on these and other manuscripts, see ch. 4), Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. There are papyri from this period as well, but they are no more significant than the parchment manuscripts dating from the same era, although this reality is often not conveyed in discussions of the papyri. In the fifth century, several important codices were written as well, including Alexandrinus, Ephraemi Rescriptus, Bezae,