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Title

Studies on the Book of Deer / Katherine Forsyth, editor.

Publication

Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors

Forsyth, Katherine

Description

xvii, 481 p., [19] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, plans; 24 cm.

Summary

The tenth-century illuminated gospel-book known as the 'Book of Deer' has been justly described as 'one of the principal antiquities of Celtic Scotland'. Of great historical significance in its own right, the gospel-book was used in the early twelfth century to record grants to the monastery of Deer in Aberdeenshire. These property records are the oldest surviving examples of Scottish Gaelic prose and are of unique historical and linguistic importance. In this collection of specially-commissioned essays, leading scholars from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, history, archaeology, art history, and placename studies, examine the Book of Deer, its Gaelic notes, and their wider historical and cultural context. Together they throw new light on landscape and society in Gaelic Buchan and on the Church in the North-East from Pictish times to the Reformation. Katherine Forsyth lectures in the Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow.

Subject

• Book of Deer
• Deer (Scotland) > Church history
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Scottish
• Scottish Gaelic literature > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[I] The gospel book :The biblical text of the Book of Deer : evidence for the remains of a division system from its manuscript ancestry ; APPENDIX: A concordance of the display initials of the Book of Deer with the Ammonian sections/Eusebian canons / Thomas O' Loughlin -- Understanding the figurative style and decorative programme of the Book of Deer / Isabel Henderson -- The sick and the dying in the Book of Deer ; APPENDIX: Four rites compared -- The Book of Deer after c.1150 ; APPENDIX: Unpublished writings by Henry Bradshaw concerning the Book of Deer / Patrick Zutshi -- [II] The Property records : The property records : diplomatic edition including accents / Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh -- The property records : text and translation / Katherine Forsyth, Dauvit Broun & Thomas Clancy -- On the possible functions of the accents in the Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer / Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh ; APPENDIX: Statistical analysis by Heidi Ann Lazar-Meyn -- The Scotticisation of Gaelic : a reassessment of the language and orthography of the Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer / Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh -- The toponymic landscape of the Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer ; APPENDIX: Early forms of place-names discussed in the text / Simon Taylor -- The syntax of the place-names / The syntax of the place-names -- The property records in the Book of Deer as a source for early Scottish society / Dauvit Broun -- [III] Deer in context : Deer and the early church in North-Eastern Scotland / Deer and the early church in North-Eastern Scotland -- The stones of Deer / Katherine Forsyth -- The Cistercian abbey of Deer ; APPENDIX: Old Deer parish church / Richard Fawcett -- Deer and its abbots in the late Middle Ages / Mark Dilworth.

ISBN

• 9781851825691 (hbk.)
• 185182569X (hbk.)

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Harvard Library