Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. document genres
7. [documents by conditions of production]
8. manuscripts (documents)
9. codices (bound manuscripts)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication
4. Information Forms
5. information forms
6. information artifacts
7. information artifacts by physical form
8. books
9. books by external form
10. folded books
11. accordion books

Anotations

Scope note:

Manuscripts distinguished by having a support formed of a long strip created by feathering together individual deer hides or pieces of maguey (agave) or bark (amate) paper to form a smooth continuous surface and coated with a white gesso. The strip is folded back and forth to create individual pages on which the figures and symbols are painted. In prime examples, made by Pre-Columbian American cultures