Alongside the usual entries by conversation partners there are numerous notes by Beethoven on these leaves. These are often copies and excerpts from newspapers (e.g. advertisements for lodgings "all those advertised in the Wiener Zeitung from 5 June") or sums, notes of conversations and aids to memory. There is also a correction for the second movement of the Ninth Symphony op. 125, which Beethoven had sent to Schott publishers in Mainz in letters BGA 2200 and BGA 2215 (both in September 1826).
Several different entries enable us to date it to 1826 and 1827. Beethoven's correction for op. 125 can be found in two letters from September 1826. One leaf contains the note "Dietrichstein ist Bibliothekar geworden / Er ist vom September an nicht mehr Hofmusikgraf und Theaterdirector ("Dietrichstein has become librarian / From September onwards he is no longer Hofmusikgraf and theatre director"). Dietrichstein changed jobs in 1826. On the last leaves there are conversations referring to the fact that Beethoven is bedridden and to his medical treatment, which were held in the last weeks of his life (e.g. an entry by Dr. Joseph Röhrig who was treating Beethoven, standing in for Dr. Malfatti).
Some sheets even date back to the years from 1823 to 1825. One of the nephew's entries, for example, refers to a stay with Beethoven in Hetzendorf in the summer of 1823. Apart from the concert Beethoven had planned for April 1824, Schindler mentions the arrival of composer Kuhlau, announced in the Wiener Zeitung (Vienna Newspaper) from July 1825. The Wiener Zeitung (Intelligenzblatt) from July and November 1825 is also the source for Beethoven's book advertisement copies. The notes he made concerning groceries and household can easily be dated, too, because they can be associated to advertisements published in the Wiener Zeitung in November 1824, February and December 1825. (F.G.)
Text: Transcription by Grita Herre, Berlin: https://internet.beethoven.de/regest/uebertragung-bh53.pdf
