The album is kept in the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig (accession number A/2013/392). It has been digitised at the CSMC as part of the project ‘Creating Music Albums as Originals Made of Originals’. It measures 29 × 22,5 cm (landscape) and belonged to the Belgian singer, pianist and composer Louis Brassin (* 24 June 1840 in Aachen, † 17 May 1884 in St. Petersburg). Brown leather binding with blind embossing, title “Album” in golden letters on the front cover. Gilt edges, white moiré endpapers. Pencil pagination in top outer corner, which does not include the portrait inserted in front of the first entry (Henriette Sontag) and has a gap between pp. 6 and 9, possibly indicating the later removal of an album leaf. The pagination of the facsimile starts with the pagination in the album, but includes the portrait (pp. 3–4) and does not account for the gap, and is thus identical to the pencil pagination on the pages 1–2 and 9–98.

The research on the Album of Louis Brassin, 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.