The Book of Deer, possibly Scotland’s oldest surviving manuscript, returned to Aberdeenshire for the first time in centuries when it went on loan from Cambridge University Library in 2022. A total of 67,937 visitors saw the manuscript when it was exhibited in Aberdeen. Not only did the loan connect new audiences with heritage but it will leave a lasting legacy of research and community engagement, including a new excavation for the Monastery of Deer, where the book is believed to originate.
Added 9 November 2022; updated 24 April 2023.