[LUTE] Re: Spencer Collection, Royal Academy of Music, London

2015-10-28 Thread WALSH STUART
On 28/10/2015 10:31, M Hall wrote: I don't think the British Library would have been prepared to pay £1,000.000 for the collection especially as they probably have copies of some of the things already. Perhaps we should be thankful that it remained in the UK and wasn't spirited away to the USA

[LUTE] Re: Spencer Collection, Royal Academy of Music, London

2015-10-28 Thread jelmaa
Hello "GC": you need to search here: http://lib.ram.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/x/0/49/ Jelma van Amersfoort On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:38 , G. C. wrote: > Thanks Monica, but I could only find a page with a few instruments and > general info. No inventory. > Regards > G. > > -- > > >

[LUTE] Re: Spencer Collection, Royal Academy of Music, London

2015-10-28 Thread M Hall
I am not sure if it is catalogued separately. If you go to www.ram.ac.uk , click on Museums & Collections there is a page for the Spencer Collection. If you work your way through the menu you should get to "Search our collections" and you can check for individual items. Hope that helps. Monica

[LUTE] Re: Spencer Collection, Royal Academy of Music, London

2015-10-28 Thread G. C.
Thanks Monica, but I could only find a page with a few instruments and general info. No inventory. Regards G. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Spencer Collection, Royal Academy of Music, London

2015-10-28 Thread M Hall
I don't think the British Library would have been prepared to pay £1,000.000 for the collection especially as they probably have copies of some of the things already. Perhaps we should be thankful that it remained in the UK and wasn't spirited away to the USA (with apologies to our American

[LUTE] Re: Spencer Collection, Royal Academy of Music, London

2015-10-28 Thread G. C.
Does anyone know if there is an inventory of the collection (online or else)? G. On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:20 PM, WALSH STUART <[1]s.wa...@ntlworld.com> wrote: I'm sure this quote from the Royal Academy of Music makes sense - but it seems puzzling. Did