The album is kept in the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig (accession number A/2013/376). It has been digitised at the CSMC as part of the project ‘Creating Music Albums as Originals Made of Originals’. The small leather-bound volume measures 11 × 8,5 cm (landscape) and belonged to the violinist Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda (baptised 2 May 1748 in Potsdam, died 15 March 1836 in Berlin), son of Franz Benda.
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The research on the Stammbuch of Karl Benda was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.
