# Securing music manuscripts: ink, light, and a sheet that exists only once

> Securing music manuscripts: flat and dark, like a manuscript, document the origin, not framed in the sun.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/musikhandschriften-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

A handwritten sheet with music is a manuscript. It follows the text on [manuscripts](/artikel/manuskripte-sichern): flat, acid-free, dark, origin written down, nothing glued to the sheet. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) the only difference is that musicians like to frame them. The frame in the sun is the damage.

## When someone comes

Light, it looks like paper. The documented sheet stays in the document safe. A copy may lie on the piano that belongs with the [grand piano](/artikel/klaviere-fluegel-sichern). The original does not.

## The folder

Composer as far as documented, work, extent, origin, proof, photo. Without proof you do not write "attributed" as a fact.


## Häufige Fragen

### Leave it on the grand piano?

A copy, yes. The original dark and flat.

### Framed?

Not in the sun, and not as a permanent place for the expensive sheet.

### Attribution?

Only with proof, as a fact. Otherwise mark it as open.