ˈsong-book
[song n. Cf. MDu. sanc-, zancboec, MLG. sankbôk, Du. (ge)zangboek, G. gesangbuch, Sw. sångbok, ON. söngbók, etc.]
1. One of the service-books of the Anglo-Saxon church (see quots. 1853).
| c 1000 Canons of ælfric xxi. in Thorpe Laws II. 350 Þæt synd þa halᵹan bec, saltere,..& mæsse boc, sang-boc, & hand boc. c 1000 in Kemble Cod. Diplom. IV. 275, .ii. fulle sangbec and .i. nihtsang. a 1700 Evelyn Diary 31 Aug. 1654, A vast old song book or service, and some faire manuscripts [at St. John's College, Cambridge]. 1853 Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ii. 18 Out of the Antiphoner..came forth the full song-book or whole service for the canonical hours. Ibid. 20 The song-book corresponded with the Salisbury portous and the Roman breviary. |
2. A book of songs.
| 1489 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 114 To Wilȝeam Sangstare of Lythqow for a sang bwke he brocht to the King. a 1586 Sidney Arcadia (1622) 372 As if her eyes had beene his song-Booke, he did the message of his minde in singing these verses. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. ii. xiv. (1674) 157 Apollo..received his Song-book with..extraordinary affection. 1683 W. Lloyd in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 187, I have besides a Welsh Song-book. 1848 Dickens Dombey xlix, The little table where the Captain had arranged the telescope and song⁓book. 1851 Mayhew Lond. Lab. I. 298/1 The sale of song⁓books in the streets..is smaller than it was two years ago. |