Rubrics for placing concecrated hosts in tabernacle

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As I understand it, prior to the council of Trent and St. Charles Borromeo, the tabernacle was often placed somewhere away from the altar-- a side chapel, a room reserved for the blessed sacrament, or behind the altar. My question is whether or not there were any rubrics for placing leftover consecrated hosts in the tabernacle, in a TLM? For instance, at St. Peter’s Basilica, there is a side chapel. During a TLM, would the celebrant simply walk over to the side chapel from the altar with the hosts, before Mass ended?

Any information would be appreciated.
 
I think the celebrant was forbidden to leave the altar in the middle of the Mass to place the ciborium in the tabernacle but I’ll check again.

If there was no tabernacle on the altar, the celebrant had two options:
  1. consume the Hosts (the tinier Particles in the ciborium would be drunk with the purification of wine)
  2. leave the Hosts on the altar in a ciborium (veiled). He would then genuflect instead of bowing whenever he passed the middle of the altar, and not turn around completely at places where this was required (e.g. for the Dominus Vobiscum or the blessing) but draw aside towards the “Gospel side” at these times to face the people.
At the end of the Mass, this ciborium could be carried to the tabernacle in the appropriate manner using the humeral veil.
 
I thought that even today the priest is not supposed to leave the altar, which is why I was asking the question in the first place.
 
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