Some assessments place the collection at just over 100,000 volumes which included papyrus scrolls and codices bound in parchment .
120,000 volumes had been destroyed in a fire in a.d. 473 .
Some assessments place the collection at just over 100,000 volumes which included papyrus scrolls and codices bound in parchment , although 120,000 volumes had been destroyed in a fire in a.d. 473 .