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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 73. 



A. C. Harris of Alexandria, who placed a fac-simile 

 in the hand of Mr. Churchill Babington, who 

 edited it as above described. 



j\Ij information is derived from an article on 

 the work in the Christian Kememhraiicer for Oc- 

 tober, 18.50, to which I refer Mr. Mackenzie for 

 further particulars. Tyro. 



Dublin. 



[Mr. Edward Siiearf. Jackson, B.A., to whom we 

 are indebted for a similar reply, adds, " ;\Ir. Harr s 

 contributed a paper on tlie MS. to the Royal Society 

 of Literature "] 



Mr. Sharpe has also published " Fragments of 

 Orations in Accusation and Defence of Demos- 

 thenes, respectina; the money of Haipalus, arranjjed 

 and translated," in the Journal of the Philological 

 Society, vol. iv. : and tiie German scholars 

 Boeckh (in the Hallische Litteratur-Zeitung for 

 1848) and Saupjje have also written critical 

 notices on the fragments ; but whether their no- 

 tices include the old and new fragments, I am 

 unable to say, having only met with a scanty 

 reference to their learned labours. J. M. 



Oxford. 



Borroivs Danish Ballads (Vol. iii., p. 168.). — 

 The fbllowin2 is the title of Mr. Borrow's book, 

 referred to by Bruno : — 



" Targum ; or, Metrical Translations from Thirty 

 Languages and Dialects. By George Borrow. ' The 

 Raven has ascended to the Nest of the Niglitingale.' — 

 Persian Poem. St. Petersbiiigh. Printed by Schuiz 

 and Beneze. 18:35." 



R. W. F. 



Bo7-row''s Danish Ballads. — The title of the 

 work is — 



" Romantic Ballads, translated from the Danish, 

 and Miscellaneous Pieces; by George Borrow. 8vo. 

 Printed by S. Wilkin, Norwich ; and published at 

 London by John Taylor, 18'J6." 



In the preface it is stated that the ballads are 

 translated from Oehlenslriger, an<l from the 

 Kicenipe. Vise?; the old Norse book referred to in 

 Lavengi'o. ix. 



Head of the Suviotir (Vol. iii., p. IGS.). — The 

 correspondent who intjuires about the " true like- 

 ness " of the Saviour exposed in some of the Lon- 

 don print-shops, is not perhaps aware that there is 

 preserved in the chureii of St. Peter's at Rome a 

 much more precious and genuine portrait than the 

 one to which he alludes — a likeness described by 

 its possessors as "jar more sublime and venerable 

 than any other, since it was neither painted by 

 the hands of men nor angels, but by the divinity 

 himself who makes both men and angels." It is 

 not delineated upon wood or canvass, ivory, glass, 

 or stucco, but upon " a pocket handkerchief 

 lent him by a holy woman named Veronica, to 

 wipe his face upon at the crucifixion" (Aringhi, 



Boma Snhterran., vol. ii. p. 543.). When the 

 handkerchief was rettirned it had this genuine por- 

 trait imprinted on its surface. It is now one of 

 the holiest of relics preserved in the Vatican basilica, 

 where there is likewise a magnificent altar con- 

 structed by Urban VIII., with an inscription 

 coumiemorating the fact, a mosaic above, illus- 

 trative of the event, and a statue of the holy 

 female who received the gift, and who is very 

 properly inscribed in the Roman catalogue of 

 saints under ihe title of St. Veronica. All this 

 is supported by "pious tradition," and attested by 

 authorities of equal value to those which esta- 

 blish the identity of St. Peter's chair. The only 

 diliiculty in the matter lies in this, that the woman 

 Veronica never liad any corporeal existence, being 

 no other than the name by which the picture itself 

 was once desitrnated, viz., the Vera Icon, or 

 "True Image ""(Mabillon, Itei: Itul.,\). 88.). This 

 narrative will probably relieve yotir correspondent 

 from the trouble of further inquiries by enabling 

 him to judge for himself whether " there is any 

 truth" about the other true image. A. R., Jun. 



In your 70th Number I perceived that some cor- 

 respondent asked, "What is the truth respecting a 

 legend attached to the head of our Saviour for 

 some time past in the print-shops?" I ask the 

 same c[uestion. True or false, 1 found in a work 

 entitled The Antiguu?-iun Repertory, by Grose, 

 Astle, and others, vol. iii., an effigy of our Saviour, 

 much inferior in all respects to the above, with 

 the following attached : — 



" 'I'liis present figure is the similitude of our Lord 



J H V, oure Saviour imprinted in amirvld by the pre- 

 decessors of the greate turke, and sent to the Po|ie 

 Innosent the 8. at the cost of the greate turke for a 

 token for this cawse, to redeme his brother that was 

 taken presonor." 



This was painted on board. The Rev. Thomas 

 Thurlow, of Baynard's Park, Guildford, has 

 another painted on l)oard with a like inscription, 

 to the best of my recollection : his has a date on 

 it, I think. 



Poi)e Innocent VIII. was created Pope in 1484, 

 and died in 149'2. 



The variation in the three effigies is an argu- 

 ment against the trutli of the story, or the two on 

 board must have been ill-executed. That in the 

 shops is very beautiful. 



I'he same gentleman possesses a Bible, printed 

 by Robert Barker, and by the assignees of John 

 Bill, 1633; and on a slip of pa])er is, "Holy Bible 

 curiously bound in tapestry by the nuns of Little 

 Gidding, 12mo., Barker." 



In a former Nmnber a person replies that a 

 Bible, bound by the nuns of Gidding for Charles I., 

 now belouL's to the Marquis of Salisbury. Query 

 tiiL- size of that f E. iL 



Norwich, March 9. 



