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The article discusses the so-called Messiah Stradivari violin of 1716, tracing its provenance from Antonio Stradivari to Paolo Stradivari, Count Cozio di Salabue, Luigi Tarisio, J. B. Vuillaume, Delphin Alard, the Hill family, Richard Bennett, and its current home at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, while noting ongoing controversy over its authenticity.