The Celtic Church in Scotland: Being An Introduction to the History of the ...
The Celtic Church in Scotland: Being An Introduction to the History of the ...
Dowden, John, 1840-1910
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John Stuart, in his admirable edition printed for the Spalding Club (1869), it consists of eighty-six folios, of small but rather wide 8vo. form, and contains the Gospel of St. John and portions of the other three Gospels ; a fragment of an Office for the Visitation of the Sick ; the Apostles' Creed ; and a charter of King David I. to the clerics of Deer, which is situated in almost the centre of the district of Buchan, in the north-east of Aberdeenshire. The character of the handwriting has le...d palaeographers, like Professor Westwood, to assign the part of earliest date to the ninth century. Its illuminations and ornaments are quite of the same kind as those of many Irish Books of the Gospels. Its connection with the Columban monastery at Deer is unquestion- able, but we have no materials to help us to determine whether it was the work of an Irish or native (/. e. 1 As was alleged of the Irish bishop, Dagam. Bede, Ecclcs* HisL % lib. ii., c. 4. 'THE BOOK OF DEER.' 249 Pictish) scribe.
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