bookhoard

• book-hoard

Calque of Old English bōchord (“library, collection of books”), equivalent to book +‎ hoard.

bookhoard (plural bookhoards)

1. (very rare, Anglo-Saxonism) collection of books, library
   • 1850, Alexander M. Burrill, A New Law Dictionary and Glossary‎ (Law), John S. Voorhies, page 153:

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

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

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

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

     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.

   • 2006 November 14, “Heathen Bookhoard A Reading List”, in Asatru Religion‎, retrieved 2012-02-21:

     Heathen Bookhoard A Reading List

• bookhouse