If your correspondent will refer to the word Parvisium, in the Glossary at the end of Watt's edition of Matthew Paris, he will find a good deal of information. To this I will add that the word is now in use in Belgium in another sense. I saw some years since, and again last summer, in a street leading out of the Grande Place, by one side of the Halle at Bruges, on a house, this notice,—
"in pervise
verkoopt men drank."
D. P.
Begbrook.
THE CŒNACULUM OF LIONARDO DA VINCI.
(Vol. vii., pp. 524, 525.)
Mr. Smirke's paper, questioning the received opinion as to the points of time and circumstance
expressed in this celebrated fresco, contains the following sentence: