Hand-bóc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hand-bóc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 hand-bóc

f. A hand-book, manual :-- Hand-bóc manualis, Wrt. Voc. 81, 46. Ða hálgan béc saltere and pistolbóc ... sangbóc and handbóc the holy books: psalter and epistle-book ... book of canticles and manual, L. Ælf. C. 21; Th. ii. 350, 14. [Ger. hand-buch.] hand-boc

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚪᚾᛞ-ᛒᚩᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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