Manuscript copy of Handel's Messiah, 1761-1776, with Salisbury, Durham and Dublin variants
Manuscript score of the Messiah by George Friedrich Handel copied by John Mat[t]hews. In three parts, with an index to each part.
See E3.a.13(7).
See Donations book 1934.
see Watkins Shaw (1958), 'John Matthews’s Manuscript of ‘Messiah', Music & Letters, 39(2), pp. 101–117.
see Burrows, Donald (2005). Mr Harris’s Score’: A new look at the ‘Mathews’ manuscript of Handel’s ‘Messiah’. Music & Letters, 86(4) pp. 560–572.
see Richard Charteris "A catalogue of the printed books on music, printed music and music manuscripts in Archbishop Marsh's Library Dublin", Kilkenny : Boethius Press, 1982.
Jacob Stone