"The passion, or Seven Last Words of Our Saviour, in Score, For a Full Orchestra by Joseph Haydn. (This is the Score made under the direction of the composer, and corrected by him)."
Copyist's manuscript of the full score of the orchestral version, with corrections and additions in Haydn's hand.
According to H.C. Robbins Landon in Haydn, Chronicle and works II: 615, "This score was made in connection with the performance Haydn conducted at the Hanover Square Rooms [London] on 30 May 1791 and repeated on 13 June."
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis.
Alfred Cortot; Robert Owen Lehman.
Cortot, Alfred, 1877-1962, former owner.
Lehman, Robin, former owner.