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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Register-buke, -buik, n. Also: registre- and -book. [e.m.E. regester buke (1515), f. Register n.¹ 1 and 2 c.] A book used, or to be used, for keeping records, etc. 1533 Inchcolm Chart. 19.
The wryting … copyit furth of the registre buke of Sancte Colmys Inche 1552 (c1650) Dundee B. Laws 15.
It is statut … that ane register buik be maid and all the said seasins minutit and rollit thairin 1575 Reg. Privy S. VII 29/2.
The half seill, blak buke and register buik 1581 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 224.
Quhilkis lettres thai … ordanit to be registrat in the register buik 1584 St. A. Kirk S. 530.
That Thomas Wod redar … haif ane register buik, in the quhilk he sall insert the names of all barnis that ar baptizit 1590 Acts Sederunt ii 18.
That he [sc. the Keeper of the Signet] keip ane register-buik of all and quhatsumever letteris sall pas our said signet 1596–7 Misc. Spald. C. V 122.
For bying of a register book of Lumbart paper to register the townis evidents, 6 lib. 1622-6 Bisset II 335/15.
Ȝit he wes paip langar, as … the register buikis of Rome recordis