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
Region in text:
City in text: Jerusalem
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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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[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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