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Zweig MS 212
- Record Id:
- 040-001947533
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x00003a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970782.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 212
- Title:
- Itemised receipt of expenses for Beethoven’s funeral
- Scope & Content:
- “Quittung über die Beiträge zur Leichenbegängnies des Wohlgebohrnen berühmten Tondichters sellig Herrn Ludwig von Beethovens”. In the hand of the “bürgerlich-magistratischen Konductsansagers” Andreas Zeller. The document is listed in Zweig MS 214 (f. 15, item M) which includes a transcription of items listed and their cost. These included the cost of priests, roses, candles etc. Attached is a separate bill for the cost of candles by Michael Stessl (f. 2).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-002480651
040-001947533 - Is part of:
- Zweig MS 1-218 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
Zweig MS 207-215 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Manuscripts formerly on loan to the British Library as Music Loan 95
Zweig MS 212 : Itemised receipt of expenses for Beethoven’s funeral - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0005]/036-002480651[0006]/040-001947533
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
2 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100158970782.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-

- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1827
- End Date:
- 1827
- Date Range:
- 31 Mar 1827
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 364 x 220mm. Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
- Custodial History:
- Sold by Heinrich Eisemann, London in 1940. Formerly on loan to the British Library (Loan 95.6)
- Former Internal References:
- Music Loan 95.6
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_212
- Publications:
- Bibliography: Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift: Katalog und Geschichte der Autographensammlung Stefan Zweig mit kommentiertem Abdruck von Stefan Zweigs Aufsätzen über das Sammeln von Handschriften (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), no. 842; Drei Begräbnisse und ein Todesfall: Beethovens Ende und die Erinnerungskultur seiner Zeit (Verlag Beethoven-Haus Bonn, 2002).
- Exhibitions:
- Beethoven. World. Citizen. Music, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 16 December 2019 - 26 April 2020
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Beethoven, Ludwig, composer, 1770-1827
- Related Material:
- See also Zweig MS 214.