rune book

English

Noun

rune book (plural rune books)

1. A book written in runic script, especially one containing spells or magic formulae.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 167:

     And it was Thora, the little Dwarf's wife,
     The five rune-books she took out;
     So she loosed him fully out of the runes,
     Her daughter had bound him about.