Description of the Holy Land (1274-85)
Name of text: | Description of the Holy Land (1274-85) |
Author of text: | Burchard of Mount Sion |
Date of text: | 1274-85 |
Date of person in text: | 13th century |
Name of structure in text: | Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Calvary Chapel |
Type of structure in text: | chapel |
Date of structure in text | 4th, 7th, 11th, 12th |
Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 12 AD |
Country in text: | Israel |
Region in text: | |
City in text: | Jerusalem |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | Walls |
Description of mosaic in text: | The walls are covered in marble and decorated in mosaic work of the purest gold. |
Mosaic date in text: | |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
Colour descriptions in text: | |
Bibliography: | For translation see: Pringle, Denys, Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187-1291(Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012), p. 295 |
URLs: | |
Comments: |