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Book of the Dean of Lismore

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Meek, Donald E., "The Scots-Gaelic Scribes of Late Medieval Perthshire: An Overview of the Orthography and Contents of the Book of the Dean of Lismore", in Janet Hadley Williams (ed.),
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Although the principal part of the manuscript's contents are in Gaelic, the manuscript as a whole is multilingual, and there are a significant number of texts written in Scots and
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It also is notable for containing poetry by at least four women. These include Aithbhreac Nighean Coirceadail (f. 1460), who wrote a lament for her husband, the constable of
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in the first half of the 16th century. The chief compiler, after whom it is named, was James MacGregor (
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throughout the manuscript. Many of the Gaelic texts are of Irish provenance, and in the case of
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in 1862; below are lines from the Countess of Argyll; above is a genealogy of the MacGregors.
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Watson, William J., "Vernacular Gaelic in the Book of the Dean of Lismore",
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Stewart Style, 1513-1542: Essays on the Court of James V
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of Fortingall. It is unrelated to the similarly named
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The patrons of the manuscript appear to have been the
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style of hand-writing employed for written Gaelic in
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Scottish Verse from the Book of the Dean of Lismore
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Index

Book of Lismore

William Forbes Skene
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish
Perthshire
vicar
Fortingall
Dean
Lismore Cathedral
curate
Book of Lismore
secretary hand
Ireland
Scotland
orthography
Lowland Scots
Scottish Gaelic
Late Middle Ages
Latin
William Dunbar
Robert Henryson
diglossia
bardic poetry
Irish poems
Campbells
Glen Orchy
National Library of Scotland
Castle Sween
Iseabail Ní Mheic Cailéin

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