The shroud of Christ
By: by Paul Vignon ... translated from the French, with nine photogravure and collotype plates and thirty-eight illustrations in the text.
Publisher: A. Constable
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Westminster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Art.; Holy Shroud.
Description: Translation of "Le linceul du Christ."
Notes: "List of recent publications concerning the holy shroud of Turin": leaf at end.
Translation of Le linceul du Christ.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PAGE; title: Introduction 9; title: CHAPTER I; title: General Description and Examination of the Impressions visible on the Holy Shroud — The Appearance and Signification of the Marks 15; title: CHAPTER II; title: The Reasons which cause us to attribute the Impressions on the Holy Shroud to the Body of Jesus Christ — The Wound-Marks of Christ — Examination of the Wound- Marks on the Shroud — A Study of the Gospels with regard to the Entombment of Christ 25; title: CHAPTER III; title: Documentary History of the Holy Shroud 53; title: CHAPTER IV; title: Descriptions of various Copies of the Holy Shroud 61; title: CHAPTER V; title: The Face on the Holy Shroud, compared with imaginative Portraits 84; title: CHAPTER VI; title: The Impressions are actual Negatives — These Negatives cannot be Paintings — These Negatives cannot have been produced by chemical Transformation — The Shroud has retained the Impression of a human Body — The Process necessary to produce Prints by simple Contact — The Impressions result from some Action without Contact 108; title: CHAPTER VII; title: Experimental Researches as to negative Impressions resulting from chemical Action without Contact 154; title: PLATES; title: I The Holy Shroud. From the Painting by Giuho Clovio (xvi. Century) Frontispiece; title: II The Head as seen on the Shroud Between pp. 10, 11; title: III The Head as seen on the photographic negative Plate Between pp. 10, 11; title: IV Facsimile of the Shroud. Upper half showing front View of the Figure, lower half showing back View of the Figure 16, 17; title: V The Holy Shroud. Facsimile of the photographic negative Plate 16, 17; title: VI Calvary. Fragment of a Fresco at Assisi To face p. 119; title: VII Impressions taken from a living Head smeared with red Chalk 132; title: VIII Impressions produced by chemical Action 158; title: IX Copy of the Holy Shroud (see page 78) 164; title: ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT; title: FIG. PAGE; title: 1. Section through a Drop of Blood which has dried on an Impermeable Substance 29; title: 2. A, Type of Wound caused by Scourging — B, Shape of Instrument capable of causing such Wound — C, Metal Button attached to the Roman. " Fiagrum " 36; title: 3. The Scourging, by Le Maitre de la Passion de Lyversberg, Cologne Museum (xv. Century) 37; title: 4. The Besancon and Turin Shrouds. From an Engraving in Chifflet's Work  65; title: 5. Sketches showing that the Besancon Shroud was copied from that of Lirey (Turin) 69; title: 6. The Besancon Shroud. From an Engraving (xv. Century [?]) 70; title: 7. Copy of the Besancon Shroud. Painted on Linen 71; title: 8. Copy of the Besancon Shroud. In Sepia by Pierre Dargent (xvi. Century) 73; title: 9. The Farnese Neptune (Naples Museum) 86; title: 10. AEschinus (Naples Museum) 86; title: 11. Demosthenes (Vatican Museum) 87; title: 12. Portrait of a Syro-Phoenician Noble (Theodore Graf Collection) 88; title: 13. The Ravenna Christ (vi. Century) 88; title: ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT; title: 14. The Martorana Christ, Palermo (xii. Century) 89; title: 15. Christ. The Palatine Chapel, Palermo (xii. Century) 89; title: 16. Christ. Cluny Museum (xii. Century 90; title: 17. Christ. Chartres Cathedral (xii. Century) 90; title: 18. Christ Teaching. Chartres Cathedral (xiii. Century) 91; title: 19. Le beau Dieu. Amiens Cathedral (xiii. Century) 92; title: 20. Christ Teaching. Bourges Cathedral (xiii. Century) 93; title: 21. An Apostle. Cluny Museum (xiv. Century) 94; title: 22. Christ as the Gardener. Notre Dame, Paris (xiv. Century) 95; title: 23. Christ and St. Thomas. Semur en Auxois (xiv. Century) 96; title: 24. Head of Christ carved in Wood at Pontoise (xiv. Century) 96; title: 25. Calvary, by Taddeo Gaddi, at Assisi (xiv. Century) 100; title: 26. Head of Christ. Louvre Museum (xv. Century) 101; title: 27. Christ blessing, by Quentin Matsys. Antwerp Museum (xvi. Century) 102; title: 28. The dead Christ. Fragment from the Antwerp Triptych, by Quentin Matsys (xvi. Century) 103; title: 29. The dead Christ, by Giovanni Bellini, at Venice (xv. Century) 105; title: 30. Christ at the Last Supper. Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci at the Brera Museum, Milan (xv. Century) 106; title: 31. Diagram 141; title: 32. " 142; title: 33. " 143; title: 34. " 144; title: 35. " 145; title: 36. " 146; title: 37. " 148; title: 38. " 151