Book of Deer
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The Book of Deer is a 10th-century Latin Gospel Book with additions, dated to the early 12th century, in Latin, Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic. It contains the earliest surviving Gaelic writing from Sc
Folio 29v contains a portrait of the Evangelist Luke.
Folio 5r contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew from 1:18 through 1:21. Note the Chi Rho monogram in the upper left corner. The margins contain Gaelic text.
Deer Abbey
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Deer Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Buchan, Scotland. It was founded by 1219 under the patronage William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan, who is also buried there.
Book of Deer
…texts and the Latin Charter of King David I. The foundation at Old Deer has left no other trace of its existence, although a Cistercian monastery, Deer Abbey, founded nearby in 1219, owned some of the lands mentioned in the Gaelic texts. The manuscript came to Cambridge University Library in 1715 when the…
Deer Abbey ruins in 2006
Entrance sign to the modern ruins
Main information plaque at the abbey