Libro d’oltramare / A Voyage Beyond the Seas
Name of text: | Libro d’oltramare / A Voyage Beyond the Seas |
Author of text: | Niccolò of Poggibonsi |
Date of text: | 1346-1350 |
Date of person in text: | 14th century |
Name of structure in text: | The Cenacle |
Type of structure in text: | Upper Room |
Date of structure in text | 4th century or earlier but has undergone various restorations |
Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 12 AD |
Country in text: | Israel |
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City in text: | Jerusalem |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | |
Description of mosaic in text: | Observe now that above the said vault the Christians built a church, all in storiated mosaic: but now it is in ruins, so that naught remains save an apse with one window, facing southeast. |
Mosaic date in text: | 4 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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Bibliography: | [Fra] Niccolò of Poggibonsi, A Voyage Beyond the Seas (1346-1350), ch.58,trans by T. Bellorini and E Hoade (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1945, repr. 1993), p. 33 |
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