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Bibill, Bybill, n. Also: bibil(e, bible; bybille, bybyll, bybell, byble; bebell. [ME. bibel, -ill, bible, and bybill, -ylle, byble, etc., OF. bible, L. biblia.]

1. The (or a) Bible.In Bann. MS. 216 a/14 and Buchanan Detect. T i b bybill is probably an error for lybill.(a) 1375 Barb. i. 466.
As men in the bibill seys c1515 Asloan MS I. 185/4.
Quhilk is contenit in the bibill 1533 Gau 34/10.
Thay suld first tech thayme the bibil 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 23/29.
Thyr said cheptours of the bibil 1575 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. 707/1.
To by ane bibile to the kirk 1649 Wemyss Chart. II. 233.
My grit brotherd bebell(b) c1420 Wynt. i. 169.
The bybyll tellys it opynly c1420 Ib. v. 3573.
Saynct Jerome Translated the bybill off Hebrewe c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2742.
The bybill sayis it wes no les 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 68.
Ane bybill … coverit with fyne purpourit veluot 1581 Acts III. 211/1.
That houshalderis haif bybillis and psame buikis 1619 Edinburgh Testaments L. 265.
Ane bybill, price foure pundis 1622 Misc. Bann. C. III. 200.
In his buithe … twa bybillis in Lateine 1664 Mun. Univ. Glasg. II. 339.
The booke of God called the Bybill(c) 1456 Hay I. 7/23.
As is tald … in the bible 1456 Ib. 69/23.
As the bible beris witnes 1546 Lynd. Trag. Card. 324.
That day quhen I was byschope consecrat, The gret byble wes bound apon my bak 1596 Dalr. II. 266/8.
Quhaeuir wald reid the byble in the Jnglis toung 1681 Foulis Acc. Bk. 94.
To buy a bybleattrib. 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 218.
With bybill materis to begin

2. Bibill buke, a copy of the Bible. 1492 Acts Lords of Council 243/1.
The spoliatioun … of … a bible buk 1586 Edinburgh Testaments XVI. 183.
He leuis … to his brother … ane bybill buik 1622 Ib. LI. 162.
Ane bybill buik pryce xl s.