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Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Broun, Dauvit, Thomas Owen Clancy, and Katherine Forsyth, “The property records: text and translation”, in: Katherine Forsythe (ed.), Studies on the Book of Deer, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 131–144.
[dipl. ed.] Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard, “The property records: diplomatic edition including accents”, in: Katherine Forsythe (ed.), Studies on the Book of Deer, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 119–130.
[ed.] [tr.] Jackson, Kenneth H., The Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer [The Osborn Bergin Memorial Lecture 1970], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
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[ed.] Fraser, John, “The Gaelic notitiae in the Book of Deer”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 5 (1938): 51–66.
[tr.] Lawrie, Archibald C., Early Scottish charters: prior to A.D. 1153, Glasgow: James MacLehose and sons, 1905.
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Secondary sources (select)

Broun, Dauvit, “The property records in the Book of Deer as a source for early Scottish society”, in: Katherine Forsythe (ed.), Studies on the Book of Deer, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 313–360.
Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard, and Heidi Ann Lazar-Meyn, “On the possible functions of the accents in the Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer; Appendix: Statistical analysis”, in: Katherine Forsythe (ed.), Studies on the Book of Deer, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 145–178.
Jackson, Kenneth, “Some remarks on the Gaelic notitiae in the Book of Deer”, Ériu 16 (1952): 86–98.