[Inside Front Cover]

BEETHOVEN [presumably in his apartment in Mödling, making an errand list for a trip back to Vienna; ca. June 2]: June, 1820. [//]

[Friedrich] Starke. [//]

OLIVA [presumably in Vienna, while Beethoven was on a shopping trip there; ca. Saturday, June 3]: 1 kr. The larger cost a Groschen for a pair.

[Blatt 1r]

BEETHOVEN [in Mödling, making a shopping list with errands and general musings; on, or possibly across several days before, Wednesday, June 7]:

Straw [mats] on the tablecloth.

Device on which to lay knife and fork. Boots.

Shoes.

At Lind’s.

For the servants.

For yourself, 2 pairs of nankeen [Nanking] pants and a house vest.

—for Karl, too— Nightstool.

Portable writing desk.

[Blatt 1v]

Sugar, 1 pound.

Vests, 5 white.

Modezeitung [Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, Literatur, Theater und Mode].

Housekeeper.

[Blatt 2r]

At the woman fish-seller’s,

or to Wolf,

concerning the old servant.

Hat.

Shoemaker, who worked for me in Vienna, or take one on Stephansplatz. [Blatt 2v]

Or 2 white pairs of pants.

Bernard: deliver Blöchlinger's letters and the ones from here.

Bach: to ask concerning [Blatt 3r] the edition of my Collected Works.

Alter the garters.

[Blatt 3v]

2 mousetraps.

Pillowcases.

Concerning the letters from Brentano.

[Blatt 4r]

Talk with [lawyer] Bach. //

They have not attached the testimonial of Smetana, the lowlife fellows. [Blatt 4v]

In general, [write] a new report to the Court Chancellery.

Why didn't the Court of Appeals advance my right to the guardianship? [Blatt 5r]

Testimonial of Dr. Hasenöhrl, and of Smetana.

Coffee machine.

The man cannot concern himself.

Have the knife sharpened in the City.

[Blatt 5v]

How was it that the letters were sent open and still cost 6 kr.?

Can Frau [Johanna] Beethoven take back half of the pension?

[Blatt 6r]

UNKNOWN WOMAN [Mödling; no later than Wednesday, June 7]: This man cannot drive every day; he is a butcher. [//]

My husband is coming tomorrow; he will speak with him. Today he went to Edenburg to buy oxen. [//]

Until/by Friday [June 9]. [//]

My godmother has died. [//]

[Blatt 6v]