Leabhar Deathan Lios Mòir
Leabhar Deathan Lios Mòir ("The Book of the Dean of Lismore") is the title of a handwritten collection that was put together between 1512 and 1526.
The Scottish clergyman James Macgregor ( Seumas MacGriogair ) and his brother Duncan collected ballads (see, for example, Táin Bó Froích , “The Driving Away of Froech's Cattle”) and bard poems , but also the Lebor na Cert (“The Book of Rights” ) in this manuscript ) in Scottish Gaelic and Irish , partly also in Latin . These are the oldest traditional works known to us in the Scottish Gaelic language. The text is written in an orthography that is based on the pronunciation of the Scots at the time .
The name of the book is derived from the fact that James Macgregor was Vicar of Fortingall and titular dean of Lismore Cathedral , which was then the administrative seat of the Diocese of Argyll . Today the book is in the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh .
“The Book of the Dean of Lismore” must not be confused with the Irish Leabhar Mhic Cárthaigh Riabhaigh (“The Book of Lismore”, more precisely “The Book of Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach”), which was written in the 15th century in Lismore (Ireland) and Was rediscovered in 1814.
literature
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .