Studies on the Book of Deer
By: Katherine Forsyth, editor.
Contributors: Forsyth, Katherine.
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9781851825691
Subjects: Book of Deer; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Scottish; Scottish Gaelic literature -- History and criticism; Deer (Scotland) -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: [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; title: Understanding the figurative style and decorative programme of the Book of Deer / Isabel Henderson; title: The sick and the dying in the Book of Deer ; APPENDIX: Four rites compared; title: The Book of Deer after c.1150 ; APPENDIX: Unpublished writings by Henry Bradshaw concerning the Book of Deer / Patrick Zutshi; title: [II] The Property records : The property records : diplomatic edition including accents / Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh; title: The property records : text and translation / Katherine Forsyth, Dauvit Broun & Thomas Clancy; title: 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; title: The Scotticisation of Gaelic : a reassessment of the language and orthography of the Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer / Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh; title: The toponymic landscape of the Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer ; APPENDIX: Early forms of place-names discussed in the text / Simon Taylor; title: The syntax of the place-names / The syntax of the place-names; title: The property records in the Book of Deer as a source for early Scottish society / Dauvit Broun; title: [III] Deer in context : Deer and the early church in North-Eastern Scotland / Deer and the early church in North-Eastern Scotland; title: The stones of Deer / Katherine Forsyth; title: The Cistercian abbey of Deer ; APPENDIX: Old Deer parish church / Richard Fawcett; title: Deer and its abbots in the late Middle Ages / Mark Dilworth.