Note 233 — Chapter XV
Reading edition
Nomine pandecten proprio vocitare memento Hoc corpus sacrum, lector, in ore tuo. Quid nunc a multis constat bibliotheca dictum Nomine non proprio, ut lingua pelasga probat.
A pandect was the whole Bible, Old and New Testament, as its name, “containing everything,” implies. A bibliotheca, like our word “library,” meant both a room or case where books were stored, and also the collection of books in the place; hence it might be used for the pandect, on the ground that it was a collection of all the books of the Bible.