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sang-bóc

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
sang-bóc, f.
Wright's OE grammar
§617;
a music-book, a book with the notes marked for singing
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    ðæt is mearcung. Ðæra mearcunga sind manega and mislíce gesceapene, ǽgðer ge on sangbócum ge on leóþcræfte,
      Ælfc. Gr. 50, 15; Som. 51, 20.
one of the service books, containing 'besides the canticles, the hymns which were used in the Anglo-Saxon churches.' v. Maskell's Monumenta Ritualia, i. cii
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  • Ðæt synd ða hálgan béc ... sangbóc ...,

      L. Ælfc. C. 21; Th. ii. 350, 13.
  • Mæssepreóst sceal habban ... sang-bóc ...,

      L. Ælfc. P. 44; Th. ii. 384, 1.
  • Nú sindon ðǽr (

    in the church at Exeter

    ) ii. fulle sangbéc.
      Chart. Th. 430, 8.
Etymology
[Icel. söng-bók.]
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