Sketches for the String Quartet, Opus 127, almost entirely devoted to a continuous draft of a passage of fifty-four bars extending to the end of the recapitulation of the first movement, no place or date. 2 p., oblong quarto (ca. 25 x 32 cms), 16 staves, inscribed at the head in an early hand: “Esquise d’un Quatuor de L. de Beethoven, écrit par lui même.”