Keyboard music (minuets, rondeaux, polonaises, chorales, sonatas, preludes, musettes, marches, gavottes) makes up most of both notebooks, and a few pieces for voice (songs, and arias) are included.

[1][2] This notebook contains 25 unbound sheets (including two blank pages), which is estimated to be approximately a third of the original size.

For a reason so far unknown to researchers, Johann Sebastian wrote the titles of three books by theologian August Pfeiffer [de] (died 1698) in the lower right corner of the title page: The notebook contains the following works, most in Johann Sebastian's hand: The 1725 notebook is larger than the 1722 one, and more richly decorated.

Light green paper is used for the front cover, Anna Magdalena's initials and the year number "1725" are printed in gold, the annotations A[nna] M[agdal] B[ach] added by her stepson C. P. E. Bach when he inherited it.

"Bist du bei mir", BWV 508, is an arrangement of an aria of the opera Diomedes by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel.

[9][10][11] "Gedenke doch, mein Geist, zurücke", BWV 509 is an aria contained in the second notebook.

[12] The sacred songs BWV 510–512 are three settings of "Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille" for voice and continuo.

"Schaffs mit mir, Gott", BWV 514, is a sacred song for voice and continuo.

[15] The aria "So oft ich meine Tobackspfeife" appears in two versions, BWV 515 and 515a, the second a fourth higher than the first.

[16] The aria "Warum betrübst du dich", BWV 516, is a setting for voice and continuo.

[17] "Wie wohl ist mir, o Freund der Seelen", BWV 517, is a sacred song for voice and continuo.

[18] The authenticity of "Willst du dein Herz mir schenken", BWV 518, also known as "Aria di G[i]ovannini", is doubted.

The chorale prelude Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten is No.

[20] The chorale prelude "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten", BWV 691, also appears in the Kirnberger Collection.

[24] The Minuet in G major, BWV 841, is also contained in the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.

27: Solo per il cembalo in E-flat major by C. P. E. Bach (early version of the keyboard sonata Wq 65.7 / H 16).

It is however included in both the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA) and the New Bach Edition (Neue Bach-Ausgabe, NBA) of the Notebooks.