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Title
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[Autograph, black ink, on brown
paper front wrapper:] Heft III Nro 1 / [autograph, on
blue paper panel in centre of wrapper:] N.B.
Muß sowol für hohe als auch
tiefe Lage / transponiert werden: (Anmerkung für den
/ Setzer). / [non-autograph [Weidig]:
Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz / [autograph:]
Hohe Lage: G-moll
 / Tiefe
Lage : F-moll  /[non-autograph [another hand], purple ink at bottom of wrapper:]
251851 / [another hand, blue crayon
running vertically up the top fore-edge of the wrapper:] 32201 |
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Date |
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[5–9
Nov. 1891] |
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Calligraphy |
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Ink [copyist:
Ferdinand Weidig]; ink annotation by Mahler,
house editor's annotations in pencil and queries in red crayon. |
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Paper |
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A = brown paper (wrapper) |
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B = 12 staves (spaced for song), no maker's
mark, upright format, 345 x 271 (r=293½) |
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Manuscript structure and collation |
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Single bifolio and a
single leaf (stub of the conjugate of fol. 4 visible between 1v
and 2r) originally stitched in a brown paper wrapper (the rear wrapper is
lacking): |
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A |
1r = front wrapper
(see above for transcription) |
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1v = blank |
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B |
2r = Decorative title page |
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2v = bb. 1–13 |
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B |
3r = bb. 14–26 |
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3v = bb. 27–35 |
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B |
4r = bb. 36–48 |
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4v = bb. 49–61 |
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Provenance |
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Purchased at Sotheby's, 10 May 1984, lot 99 |
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Facsimiles |
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Complete colour facsimile |
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Select Bibliography |
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SWXIII/2ah, x–xi. |
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Notes |
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Printer's copy for the first edition, notated in F
minor–B major. |
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