[L. volūmen: see VOLUME sb.]
† 1. A volume, a book. Obs.–1
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), II. 163. He drew all the confusit lawis of Scotland in ane compendius volumen.
2. A roll (of parchment, etc.).
1851. Millington, trans. Didron’s Chr. Iconogr., I. 32. Another kind of nimbus also is often met with in Italian MSS., resembling a volumen of parchment unfolded in the centre, [etc.].
1904. W. M. Ramsay, Lett. Seven Ch., xix. 262. The same name [Homereion] was applied to a small bronze coin, which showed the poet [Homer] sitting, holding a volumen on his knees, and supporting his chin on his right hand.
