Book of the Dean of Lismore

Leabhar Deathan Lios Moir ( "The Book of the Dean of Lismore ") is the title of a manuscript collection, which was compiled in the period 1512-1526.

The Scottish clergyman James Macgregor ( Seumas MacGriogair ) and his brother Duncan collected in this manuscript ballads ( see, for example Táin Bó Froích, " The expelling of Froechs cattle " ) and bard poetry, but also the Lebor na Cert ( "The Book of rights ") in scottish Gaelic, and Irish languages ​​, sometimes in Latin. These are the oldest known surviving works in Scottish Gaelic. The text is written in an orthography, which is based at the former pronunciation of the Scots.

The name of the book derives from the fact that James Macgregor Vicar of Fortingall and titular Dean of the Cathedral of Lismore was, at that time the functioned as the administrative headquarters of the diocese of Argyll. Today the book in the National Library of Scotland is preserved in Edinburgh.

"The Book of the Dean of Lismore " must not ( "The Book of Lismore ," more precisely "The Book of Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach " ) to be confused with the Irish Leabhar Mhic Cárthaigh Riabhaigh, which in the 15th century in Lismore ( Ireland) written and was rediscovered in 1814.