By Kenneth Jackson
The e-book of Deer, forty three folios of manuscript, containing components of the Gospels and the Apostles' Creed, is likely one of the treasures of the Cambridge college Library. The publication is necessary no longer quite a bit for its fundamental contents as for the notes in Gaelic which were further to it in a few of the to be had clean areas. those notes checklist the root 'myth' of the monastery of Deer in north-east Aberdeenshire, and formal recordings of assorted gives you of lands to the monastery. The language during which the notes are written is the shape of Gaelic spoken in Buchan in the course of the previous a part of the 12th century, because of this this manuscript predates the subsequent earliest surviving Scots Gaelic files by means of nearly 3 centuries. Professor Jackson offers a diplomatic textual content of the notes, according to a cautious research of the unique manuscript, including an edited textual content, a translation, dialogue, notes and a thesaurus.
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Teste Andrea episcopo de Catenes. Teste Samsone episcopo de Brechin. Teste Doncado comite de Fib, 7 Mal-Mori d' Ath6tla, Io 7 Ggille-Brite comite d' Engus, 7 Gille-Comded mac lEd, 7 Br6dn, 7 Cormac de Turbrud, 7 Adam mac Ferdomnac, 7 Gille-'ndrias mac Matni, apud Abberdeon. 32 The texts and translations TRANSLATI O N For notes o n the content, including names, see pp. 37ff. ; on the language, pp. 125ff. Identified place-names are given here in their modern forms ; unidentified ones in italics. All names are in a normalised spelling.
See above, the introductory note to the Notes on II. The name Catha! was a common one. Pett in Mulenn, ' The Estate of the Mill '. This has some times been identified with the old mill on the South Ugie Water just outside the village of Old Deer,1 which is plausible enough. Pitmillan just north-west of Foveran (Pitmulen c. 1 3 1 5, Pet mulane 1 5 14 ; CPNS, p. 4u ; PNA, p. 2 It is not included however in the possessions of the abbey listed as passing to him at the time of its dissolution in 1 587.
E gonice in beith edar da Alterin. Do-rat Domnall 7 Catha! Etdanin do Dia 7 do Drostan. Ro Mith Cainnec 7 20 Domnall 7 Cathal na h-ule edbarta ri Dia 7 ri Drostan 6 thosach go derad i ssaere 6 mormaer 7 6 thesech cu laithi bratha ; [Continued on fo. 4b] 7 bennact in Chomded ar cec mormar 7 ar cec tosech chomallfas 7 da'n sil da n-eis. III Gartnait mac Cannech 7 Ete ingen Gille-Michel do-ratsat Pet Mec-Cobrig ri cosecrad eclasi Crist 7 Petir abstoil, 7 do Colum Cille 7 do Drostan, ser 6 na h-ulib dolodib, co n-a nascad do Cormac escob Duni Callenn, in n-ocmad 5 bliadin rigi Dauid.