[Bahbah]

LOL. How can we determine which it is? I do not want to stir up any Psycho_Bunnies. I am jealous that you can sing.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I don't know. I've always assumed that when "The Messiah" is printed on a score, it's probably the most likely name for a couple reasons; first and foremost because "ensemble" music copyists tend to be anal about such things - one mistake could ruin a page that took an hour to set.  Scoring is a b#tch.  

Another reason is that often, the most popular scores are the photocopies of 1800s to early 1900s hand-set scores which are not that many generations removed from the composer.  (The most beautiful score I've ever seen is my first printing, hand-set "Also Sprach Zarathustra" - almost any page of which, could be framed and hung.)

I know there has to be a picture of the title page to this piece, in Handel's pen, but I've never seen one.