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Quotation dates: 1581-1691
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Bibliothek, -theck, n. Also: bibliothec, -theque; biblio-, bibleothick(e; bibliotak. [e.m.E. biblyotheke (1549), -theicke, -theque, L. bibliothèca, F. bibliothèque.] A library.(a) 1581 Burne Disput. 97.
In sum bibliothekis, as in the bibliothec of the duke of Florence 1606 Craig ii. 15/9.
To vouchsafe them some place in the bench of your bibliothek 1612 Rec. Marischal Coll: I. 125.
For buying of good bookes to augment my bibliothek 1641 Mun. Univ. Glasg. III. 424.
For ordoring … and enlargeing of the common bibliothec 1657 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 167.
The books … being put in the bibliothek of the said Colledge(b) 1611 Lett. & St. P. Jas. VI 200.
The deditioune of ane commoune bibliotheque thairto(c) 1612 Maxwell Mem. II. 16.
The shisme … anent the place of the bibliotheck of Sanctandrois 1624–5 Misc. Spald. C. V. 101.
For ane plait lock to the bibliotheck 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. II. 8.
His budget … was … His lardner and his bibliotheck 1682 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 317.
To take ane inventar of the bibleothick in the Grammer Schooll 1685 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LVIII. 357.
Round about the said roume … is his haill bibliothick 1691 Misc. Bann. C. III. 245.
He would not so much as name it … a bibliotheck(d) 1685 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LVIII. 369.
His owne chamber … forby the bibliotak
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