10] Pratt W.K., Digital Image processing, Wiley, New York, 1978 [11] Tamburelli G., G. Garibotto, Nuovi sviluppi nell’elaborazione dell’immagine sindonica, Atti del congresso internazionale di

Close similarities exist between the image and the the presence of more than simply a face. An official biblical accounts of Jesus’ crucifixion: over 100 history of the cloth of Edessa characterized

944, which suggests strongly a full-length image on the Mandylion just arrived from Edessa, and the Pray Codex of 1192-5 (fig. 1). This codex shows the Shroudlike folded hands without thumbs and the four-

Shroud was hidden inside one of the city walls of Edessa, perhaps for most of the time of its existence there, and possibly forgotten. There are several references to the Shroud during this period;

Alexander Sturgis, ‘Icon of the Mandylion of Edessa. Eighteenth century’, entry 41 in Gabriele Finaldi (ed.), The Image of Christ, London, National Gallery Company, 2000, pp.98-101 ‘Descriptive

menziona l’immagine di Edessa “non fatta da mani d’uomo” [a=.9, f=.001, n=.099, ia=.05, if=.005, in =.05, p=.7] 77) È antecedente al manoscritto Pray (Budapest, 1192-95). In una immagine, in

including images of plants, that Dr.Whanger still somewhat controversially identifies as visible on the Shroud. After Barbara Sullivan's 'The Shroud of Turin: Critical Analysis of Alternative and Disjunctive

many of the off-body image features, including images of plants, that Dr. Whanger still somewhat controversially identifies as visible on the Shroud. After Barbara Sullivan's 'The Shroud of Turin:

The documents attesting this full-body image migrated westward by the 8th c. Latin accounts of the Edessa cloth-icon remark how this awe-inspiring object had been kept hidden away in treasuries, and shown

of Jesus as portrayed on the various copies of the Image of Edessa or Mandylion – “His nose is long and narrow, with a small mouth beneath a rather drooping moustache and above a beard that comes