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I AM sorry to find, from an interesting paper by the Rev. Father Thurston on the Holy Shroud in the current number of The Month, that I have mistranslated the passage from Chifflet's “De Linteis Sepulchralibus, &c.” p. 198, in which he refers to the spirituous tincture of cinnamon and cloves being used for giving the correct colour in making a copy on linen of the Besançon shroud for King Philip II. of Spain, and not for depicting the King himself. Not having Chifflet's book at hand when writing, I overlooked the reference to the Besanton shroud, but the mistake does not affect the argument regarding the use of such tinctures by painters in the Middle Ages.
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WATERHOUSE, J. The Holy Shroud of Turin . Nature 67, 345 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067345b0
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