Scribal copy of the String Quartet in E flat, Opus 127, the printer's copy used for the first edition of the score, with extensive editorial corrections. The Stichvorlage in four fascicles, one for each movement, written by a single scribe in brown ink on two four-stave systems per page, with manuscript title ("Quartett für II Violinen, Bratsche und Violoncello verfasst und Seine Durchlaucht dem Fürsten Nicolaus v. Galitzin gewidmet von Ludwig von Beethoven..."), some alterations in ink in another hand or hands, extensively marked up by and for the printer in pencil and red crayon, 29, 23, 36, and 29 pages, plus blanks, oblong quarto (ca. 23 x 31 cm.), 10-stave paper, each movement with separate older red crayon foliation and modern pencil pagination, plate number 2426 in manuscript on the title, ink-marking consistent with use by the printer, small tear to right-hand margin of title.
One of only two known manuscript copies used in the publication of the work, being copied directly from a copy in the hand of Wolanek with corrections by Beethoven, now in the Schott Archive.