"Quod priusquam quis ad Gradum Baccalaurei in Artibus admittatur, in Parviso semel Quaestionibus Magistrorum Scholarum respondeat." However, they go on to direct, "Locus hisce Responsionibus assignetur Schola Metaphysices;" and there they are at present held. (See the Glossary to Tyrwhitt's _Chaucer_; and also Parker's _Glossary of Architecture_, ad voc. "Parvise.") CHEVERELLS. The term _parvise_, though used in somewhat different senses by old writers, appears to mean strictly a _porch_ or _antechamber_. Your correspondent OXONIENSIS will find in Parker's _Glossary_ ample information respecting this word, with references to various writers, showing the different meanings which have been attached to it. "Responsions," or the preliminary examinations at Oxford, are said to be held _in parviso_; that is, in the porch, as it were, or antechamber before the schools, which are the scene of the greater examinations for the degree. H. C. K. 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 COENACULUM 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 {625} expressed in this celebrated fresco, contains the following sentence: "The work in question is now so generally accessible, through the medium of _accurate_ engravings, that any one may easily exercise his own judgment on the matter." Having within no very distant period spent an hour or two in examining the original, with copies lying close at hand for the purposes of comparison, allow me to offer you a few impressions of which, while fresh, I "made a note" in an interleaved copy of Bishop Burnet's curious _Tour in Italy_, which served me as a journal while abroad. Burnet mentions the Dominican Convent at Milan as in his day "very rich." My note is as follows: