Old Deer
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Old Deer is a parish and village in the district of Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The population in 2011 was 152. The village lies on the A950, beside the Deer or South Ugie Water, 10.1 miles west
Abbey Street in Old Deer, with the parish church in view
Aikey Brae stone circle
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
Old Deer
…in various other ways such as Deare, Diere and Dier. Columba and his nephew Drostan founded a monastery here in 719, of which no trace remains. The Book of Deer is a most interesting relic of the monks, which was discovered in 1857 in the Cambridge University library by Henry Bradshaw. It was probably stolen…
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.