Lot 252

SCOTTISH HIGHLAND MUSIC
TWO VOLUMES OF MANUSCRIPT PIOBAIREACHD TUNES 1930




Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: Lots 1 - 412 | 20 August 2024 at 10am
Description
Both 4to, 121 and 78 pp., bound in contemporary red half roan by David Ritchie of Johnstone, each volume with ownership inscription of one John Coupar, dated November 1930 in one volume, this volume with pencilled annotation below: ‘Copied from the MS of Donald Stuart MacDonald, a pipe-major of the Royal Scots. Macdonald's MS was a copy of the unpublished MSS of Angus Mackay. MacDonald made his copy while piper at Brodick Castle, dated Edinburgh 1882. Dedicated to Duke of Hamilton. D. S. Macdonald, P. M., 1st Battalion. The Royal Scots'. Together with a later edition of Angus Mackay, A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd, Aberdeen: Logan & Compy, c.1900 (first published 1838)



