Scope and Contents From the Series: Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....

Scope and Contents From the Series: Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....

Scope and Contents From the Series: Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....

Scope and Contents From the Series: Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....

Scope and Contents The manuscript contains a ‘coat of arms’ watermark. The scribe of the manuscript is William MacMurchy (see Adv.MS.72.2.12). MacMurchy also wrote versions of fourteen of the poems in this manuscript in what are now Adv.MS.73.2.2 (thence printed in ‘Reliquiae Celticae’, volume 2, pages 310-420) and the Inverneill MS (photostat, National Library of Scotland MS.14981). A number of the poems are plainly by the scribe himself.Ewen MacLachlan described it in his ‘Celtic Analysis’...

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The contents are as follows: Book of the Dean of Lismore, 16th century (Adv.MS.72.1.37);

Manuscript, ?15th century-17th century, containing verse and tale fragments in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.47);

Manuscript, 17th century, of syllabic verse (Adv.MS.72.1.48);

Manuscript, 1618-1647, containing Irish bardic verse (Adv.MS.72.1.49);

Manuscript, [circa 1658], containing historical miscellany in Gaelic, written by Niall MacMhuirich (Adv.MS.72.1.50).

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The contents are as follows: Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 148-161, [?1910-?1949] (MS.22111);

Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 162-184, [?1892-?1958] (MS.22112).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 185-200, [?1911-?1958] (MS.22113), 122 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 201-218, [?1910-?1958] (MS.22114), 112 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 219-241, [?1911-?1958] (MS.22445), 89 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 242-262, [?1911-?1939] (MS.22116), 80 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 263-290, [?1910-?1940] (MS.22117), 172...

Scope and Contents Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...