A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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Bibliothecar(e, n. Also: bibleo-. [e.m.E. bibliothecarie, L. bibliothecārius, F. bibliothécaire.] A librarian. 1581 Burne Disput. 97.
Anastasius Bibliothecar of the kirk of Rome 1624 Rec. Marischal Coll. I. 197.
That there is a bibliothecar required in such a city 1641 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 43.
The office of ane bibliothecare with rent appertinent thairvnto 1663 Ib. III. 14.
To be bibleothecar in the college of Glasgow 1707 Acts XI. 474/2.
Robert Henderson Bibliothecar of the Colledge of Edinburgh
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