Book, books.

A non-book or books that are no books: Biblia abiblias are publications of no human interest or are considered worthless as literature.

"I can read anything which I call a book", wrote Charles Lamb. "There are things in that shape which I cannot allow for such. In this catalogue of books which are not books—biblia a-biblia—I reckon Court (Royal) Calendars, Directories, Pocket Books, Draught Boards, bound and lettered on the back, Scientific Treatises, Almanacs, Statutes at Large, the works of Hume, Gibbon, Robertson, Beattie, Soame Jenyns, and generally, all those volumes which, 'no gentleman's library should be without.' "

Any of the picture books illustrating Biblical events and usually containing a short text, used primarily in the Middle Ages for purposes of religious instruction; literally, "Bible of the poor": "The Biblia Pauperum series commonly consisted of forty or fifty pages and each page was divided into nine sections. The four corners were used for explanatory texts while the central pictures represented scenes from Christ's life, arranged chronologically.

Also, above and below the Biblia Paupera were pictures of prophets and on each side were scenes from the Old Testament, all of which resulted in a concordance of the Old and the New Testament events in human salvation.

The Biblia Pauperum was one of the first books printed by block printing (a single woodcut for each page) and the simpler versions were probably used by the clergy as teaching aids for those who could not read, which included most of the populations.