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Quotation dates: 1489-1541
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Sang-buk(e, n. Also: -bwke. [e.m.E. song-boke (1506), -booke (a1586), OE sang-bóc.] A book of songs, a song-book. — 1489 Treasurer's Accounts I 114.
To Wilȝeam Sangstare … for a sang bwke he brocht to the king c1500 Coll. St. Salvator 159.
Off sang bukis with v messis v bukis 1515 Reg. Soltre 177.
Pro vno libro missarum dicto precett sangbuk xxxii s. 1540–1 Ayr B. Acc. 85.
[2 quires of paper] for to mak sang bukis
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