In quots. c. 1000 and a. 1175 misapplied to the stone ‘tables’ of the Decalogue.
c. 960. Bened. Rule (Schröer), lv. 92. Weaxbreda [L. tabulæ].
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 196. Þa awrat se Ælmihtiʓa God him twa stænene wexbredu mid his aʓenum fingre.
c. 1055. Byrhtferth’s Handboc, in Anglia, VIII. 332. Swa us her æfter ʓelustfullaþ to amearkianne on þissum æfterfyliʓendum wexbredum, þe se arwurða beda ʓesette.
a. 1175. Cott. Hom., 235. Þer efter arerde god þas laȝe þurh moysen … and wrate his him self in stanene waxbredene.
[1853. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, III. II. 128. Long after paper became known, the use of such tablets, which we may call the wax-brede, was kept on.]
