The music album, which is part of a private collection, has been digitised by CSMC as part of the project ‘Creating Music Albums as Originals Made of Originals’. The manuscript has a violet velvet binding with gold embossings, and gilt edges. It measures 32,8 × 23,5 cm (landscape) and contains III, 42, II folios (plus 2 manuscript single leaves and one printed single leaf as loose additions). It belonged to the pianist, composer and piano teacher Louise Langhans (née Japha, 2 February 1826–13 October 1910), who was a friend of Johannes Brahms. Today, the album contains 16 entries by Johannes Brahms, Ole Bull, Clara von Goßler, Oscar Lindhult and others. (Three obviously cut-out pages might point to originally more entries, which are lost today.)

The research on the Music Album of Louise Langhans (née Japha) 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.