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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 150. 



is still determined to try it, I now come directly 

 to his Queries : — 



, Tlie Daguerreotype is perhaps the easiest mode 

 of obtaining pictures, but it has serious incon- 

 veniences : the pictures are on metal plates, and 

 must be kept covered by a glass. The calotype 

 will be much better for A. H. R., as the pictures 

 may be on glass or paper ; and in the latter case, 

 they may be kept in a book or folio. 



A dark room or tent is not necessary in the 

 calotype; I am now doing without one myself, 

 and can make long excursions from home ; all I 

 want is a little clean water. The apparatus varies 

 very much by different makers, and mine was 

 made under my own superintendance. 



Lastly — this may seem ill-natured — don't be- 

 lieve all that people write or say on this subject ; 

 and don't trust too much to opticians and chemists, 

 but first see some one take a picture and complete 

 it in the open air before your eyes. C. V. S. 



[There is so much common sense in the suggestion 

 of our correspondeut, that we insert his paper as a 

 useful introduction to Dr. Diamond's promised com- 

 munication. Photography is very easy when acquired, 

 but it cannot be acquired without some practice and 

 some perseverance. — Ed.] 



ST. VERONICA. 



(Vol.vi., p. 199.) 



Several narratives of the history of St. Veronica 

 will be found in the BoUandine Acta Sanctorum 

 (Februarii, p. 449.). The oldest form of the le- 

 gend is contained in a Latin narrative, entitled 

 Cara sanitatis Tiberii Cesaris Augusti et damuatio 

 Pilati, printed by Foggini in his Exercitationes 

 liistorico-criticce de Romano Divi Petri itinere, and 

 also by J. D. Manso, in his Supplement to the 

 Miscellanea Stephani Baluzii, vol. iv. p. 55. An 

 Anglo-Saxon version of this story has lately been 

 printed by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. 

 Tlie origin of the name is involved in considerable 

 obscurity. In the apocryphal gospel of Nicodemus, 

 the woman who was cured of the issue of blood is 

 called hepoviKT) or Bepj/j/cTj. This work was probably 

 current as early as the fifth century. It appears 

 that in one of the churches at Rome a portrait of 

 Jesus Christ, worked or painted upon a handker- 

 chief, and having under it the words Vera Icon^ 

 i. e. a true portrait, was preserved in very ancient 

 times. Vera Icon was mistaken for the name of 

 the owner, and identified with BepoviKri, and upon 

 these hints the legend appears to have been con- 

 structed. Such is at least a probable account of 

 the matter. Assuming then that Veronica is an- 

 other form of Beronice, or rather Berenice, the 

 ' proper pronunciation v/ill be Veronica (BepevtK-n 

 being a Macedonia form of *fpec(Krj, from (txpew 

 and yTfcr,). C. W. G. 



Two notable specimens of Romish saints belong 

 to the genus Veronica. The words Vera Icon are 

 generally considered to have been the origin of the 

 name ; but the accent which this derivation would 

 produce has not been regarded in monastic hymns, 

 nor in the sequence to which reference has been 

 made in " N. & Q.," Vol. ii., pp. 440-L 



For the history of the earlier imaginary saint, 

 R. A. of A, may consult Bollandi et Henschenii 

 Acta Sanctorum, torn. i. pp. 449-57., Antverp. 

 1658 ; Henschenii et Papebrochii Act. Sanctt., 

 Mali, torn. vii. p. 356. lb. 1688 ; Aringhi Roma 

 Subterranea, torn. ii. pp. 454-5., Romte, 1651 ; 

 Mabillonii, Iter Italicum, p. 88., conf. 188., Lut. 

 Paris, 1687. 



The more modern Veronica was born in the 

 year 1446, and was beatified by Pope Leo X. in 

 1517. A full account of her may be found in — 



" The most celebrated Popish Ecclesiastical Ro- 

 mance ; being the Life of Veronica of Milan. A Book 

 certify'd by the Heads of the University of Conimbra 

 in Portugal, to be revised hy the Angels, and approved of 

 hy God (ja vista y revisto pellos Anios, y approvado por 

 Dios). Begun to be translated from the Portuguese 

 by the late Dr. Geddes, and finish'd by Mr. Ozel). 

 With the Approbation of his Grace the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, in whose Library at Lambeth the Original 

 of this Curiosity remains. 8vo. London, 1716." 



R. G. 



EMACIATED MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES. 



(Vol. v., p. 497. ; Vol. vi., p. 85.) 

 In the chancel at Asby-Foloile, in this county, 

 is a large alabaster flat tomb representing an 

 emaciated female figure with a sheet or shroud 

 tied together over the head, and descending on 

 cither side of the figure, which is otherwise naked. 

 Nichols, in his History of Leicestershire, speaks of 

 this as "the tomb of the headless lady;" but ths 

 featui-es being still discernible under the knot of 

 the shroud, our otherwise correct historian either 

 is at fault or has been deceived. Mr. T. R. 

 P.(otter), who is engaged on a new history of the 

 county, in a letter to the editor of the Leicester 

 Journal, Jan. 18, 1850, gives the inscription as 

 follows : 



" Hie jacent Rad'us Woodford, armiger, co'san- 

 guineus et heres llob'ti Woodford militis ; videl' fil. 

 Thome, filii et heredis p'dicti llob'ti Woodford ; et 

 Elizabetha una fiiiar' Will'i Villiers, armigeri, uxor 

 p'dicti Rad'i, qui quidem Rad'us obiit'in° die Marcii 

 alio Dom. mcccclxxxi"; p'dicta Elizabetha obiit ix°die 

 Augusti A.D. MccccLxxiv°, quor' ai'bus propi'ait Deus, 

 Amen." 



The wife predeceased the husband, which ac- 

 counts for the female figure alone being engraven 

 on the slab. At the bottom of the slab, on a scroll, 

 is the well-known quotation from the book of Job, 

 in Latin, " Credo quod Redemptor mens vivit," 



