| Diplomatic transcription of the title page | cover [foreign hand]:
[underlined:] B. MARTINŮ | [underlined:] Rhapsodie | (allegro symphonique)
title page:
[underlined:] (Pour Darney.) | [underlined three times:] Rhapsodie. | [underlined:] Allegro symphonique. | [underlined:] (Rhapsodie.) | B. Martinů. | 10. rue Mandar. | Paris 2 e. | Paris. 14 Mai 1928. | [in pencil:] Premièrè Boston ([?] A. ([?] Koussevitzky) 1928: | à Prague (Ansermet) 1930 | à Paris (Walter Straram) 1930 |
| Number of pages bearing notation | 81 |
| Total number of pages | 90+4 |
| Original pagination | 2-79 |
| Dimensions (width x height) | 290 x 401 mm |
| Binding | sewn binding, title page gloved |
| Paper characteristics | yellowed |
| Number and arrangement of staves | 32 |
| Writing instrument | pen (black ink), pencil (lead, blue and red) |
| Other markings | bar numbering, dynamics, cuts and vi-de marked with red and blue pencil in large letters (probably Koussevitzky and Straram)
Color pencil cuts - red: page 2, 8, 50-54, 63-65, blue only page 63. Red pencil inscriptions with French inscriptions + con brio night on page 65, blue crayon inscriptions with Italian terminology. |
| Comments | on the title page of the autograph there is the address "10 rue Mandar. | Paris 2 e." [district] and the date "14 Mai 1928.", the address is in the Chronological Table [MIHULE 2002] listed as confirmed only until year 1929 [s. 584] |