bookhoard

plural bookhoards · alternative book-hoard

1. rarecollection of books, library

   Heathen Bookhoard A Reading List

   2006 November 14, “Heathen Bookhoard A Reading List”, in Asatru Religion, retrieved 21 Feb 2012

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   BOC HORDE. Sax. [quasi bookhoard.] / A place where books, writing or evidences were kept.

   1850, Alexander M. Burrill, A New Law Dictionary and Glossary (Law), John S. Voorhies, page 153

   BOCHORD is, as it were, bookhoard, or a hoard for books, that is, a place where books, writings or evidences are kept.

   1876, Herbert Newman Mozley, George Crispe Whiteley, A Concise Law Dictionary, Digitized edition, Butterworths, page 48

   From the excessively rare double-folio engraving "Cornu Aurei Typus", an impression of which is in my own bookhoard; another is in the Danish National Library.

   1884, George Stephens, Handbook of the old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, Digitized edition, published 2009, →ISBN, page 86