Note 202 — Chapter IV · BOOK-MAKING AND COLLECTING IN THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES

Customary of St. A. (H. Brads. Soc.), i. 401. These tablets were called ceratae tabellae, tabellae cerae, or simply cerae. The name of a book, caudex, codex, was first given to these tabellae when they were strung together to form a square “book.”—V. Antiquary, xii. 277.