A handheld wooden paddle with a sheet of text attached. It was used mainly as a primer for children, and included lessons in the alphabet and religion. It gets its name from the transparent sheet of horn that covered the text. The term “horn book” would later be applied to a type of legal text, that gives an overview of a particular law.
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