Note 7 — WHAT IS AN INDEX?

Another word occasionally used in the sense of an Index is Pye, which has been supposed to be derived from the Greek Πίναξ. The late Sir T. Duffus Hardy, in some observations on the derivation of the word “Pye-Book,” remarks that the earliest use he had noted of pye in this sense is dated 1547—“A Pye of all the names of such Balives as been to accompte pro anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti primo.”—Appendix to the 35th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, p. 195.