Analects

Sez the OED:

analects æ;nalekts, sb. pl. [ad. L. analecta, a. Gr. analekta things gathered or picked up, f. analeg-ein, f. ana up + leg-ein to gather, pick up. Often used in L. form when applied to extracts from the classical authors.]
1. Crumbs that fall from the table; pickings up, gleanings. Obs.

1623 Cockeram , Analects, crums which fall from the table.

A. 1643 Cartwright Ordinary iii. v. in Hazl. Dodsley XII. 269 No gleanings, James? No trencher-analects?

1721 Bailey , Analects, Analecta, fragments gathered from Tables.

2. Literary gleanings; collections of fragments or extracts. (Usually as a title.)

1658 Phillips , Analects,..is taken for Collections or Scraps out of Authors.

1770 G. Carey (title) Analects in Verse and Prose.

1843 Liddell & Scott Gr. Lex. Pref. xi, Antipater Sidonius: in Brunck's Analecta.

1861 Sat. Rev. 30 Nov. 563 A few of the sage's sayings, selected from thousands..to be found in the Confucian Analects.