In 6 biblyotheke, 7 bibliotheicke, -theke, -thec, thek. [a. F. bibliothèque, ad. L. BIBLIOTHECA.]
A library; a collection of books or treatises.
1549. Bale, Concl. Leland’s Itin. (T.). He [Alcuinus] muche commendeth a biblyotheke or library in Yorke.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 523. Asinius Pollio, by dedicating his Bibliotheque, containing all the bookes that euer were written.
a. 1631. Donne, Aristeas, 16. How many thousand volumes he had gotten together in his Bibliotheicke.
1657. Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 67. Tho’ with these two ye join in one The bibliothec of Prester John.
1755. Johnson, in Boswell (1816), 265. I intend in the winter to open a Bibliotheque.
fig. 1685. Sir G. Mackenzie, Relig. Stoic, xi. 105. In the bibliotheck of his head.
