Fac-simile of the autograph score of Messiah : an oratorio / composed in the year 1741 by G. F. Händel ; by permission of Her Majesty The Queen ; executed in photo-lithography by Vincent Brooks Day and son, from the original in the Library at Buckingham Palace.
Pages 3 and 4 are blank except for the manuscript note at top of page 3: Here, part of the overture, and the beginning of the recit: - Comfort ye my people, are wanting.