Manuscripts

Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii. 6. 32 Book of Deer

Latin, Middle Gaelic
s. x¹
Scottish manuscripts
vellum

Pocket gospel book produced around the tenth century, probably in Scotland; well known for containing additions in Scottish Gaelic (or Middle Irish).

Identifiers

Location

England Cambridge, University Library

Shelfmark

Ii. 6. 32

Title

Book of Deer

Type

gospelbooks

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin Secondary: Middle Gaelic

Date

s. x¹

10th century?

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Table of contents

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The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

Scottish manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] “Book of Deer (MS Ii.6.32)”, Cambridge Digital Library, Online: University of Cambridge, 2011. URL: <http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-00006-00032/1>.

Digital images, with catalogue entry by Zutshi and Binski (2011) and further information and links direct link

[ed.] [facs. ed.] Stuart, John, The Book of Deer: edited for the Spalding Club, Edinburgh, 1869.

Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Forsythe, Katherine (ed.), Studies on the Book of Deer, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008.

Articles are grouped together in one of three subdivisions: 1. The gospel book (first four authors); 2. The property records (next seven articles); 3. Deer in context.

Binski, Paul, Patrick Zutshi, and Stella Panayotova [ass.], Western illuminated manuscripts: a catalogue of the collection in Cambridge University Library, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxiv + 506 pp.

Hughes, Kathleen, Celtic Britain in the early Middle Ages: studies in Scottish and Welsh sources, ed. David N. Dumville, Studies in Celtic History, 2, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1980.

Papers revised or previously unpublished

22–37 Hunter Marshall lecture 1977

Jackson, Kenneth H., The Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer [The Osborn Bergin Memorial Lecture 1970], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

CELT – ed. and tr.: <link>

Jackson, Kenneth, “Some remarks on the Gaelic notitiae in the Book of Deer”, Ériu 16 (1952): 86–98.