!!!Autographen

Autographs (original manuscripts) have been collected since the 
beginning of the 16th century. The first public auction of such 
manuscripts in the German language was organised in Vienna in 1838 by 
the bookseller F. Graeffer. Most libraries and archives today own 
autograph collections; leading collections are those of the Austrian 
National Library with its 274,783 autographs and approximately 35,000 
pages of photocopies in the archives of music manuscripts of the Music 
Collection (dedicated to A. van Hoboken) and the Vienna 
Stadtbibliothek (city library) with approximately 220,000 autographs 
and modern manuscripts, as well as 16,000 musicians' manuscripts.


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