Old English Dictionary Entry

Sang-bóc

Related words: Maskell's Monumenta Ritualia, i. cii :-- 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 (

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1 sang-bóc

f. I. a music-book, a book with the notes marked for singing :-- Nota ðæt is mearcung. Ðæra mearcunga sind manega and mislíce gesceapene, ǽgðer ge on sangbócum ge on leóþcræfte, Ælfc. Gr. 50, 15; Som. 51, 20. II. one of the service books, containing 'besides the canticles, the hymns which were used in the Anglo-Saxon churches.' in the church at Exeter) ii. fulle sangbéc. Chart. Th. 430, 8. [Icel. söng-bók.] sang-boc

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Runic Inscription

ᛋᚪᛝ-ᛒᚩᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Gr.: Ælfric's Grammar
Som.: Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Ælfc.: Ælfric

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