Historia del gran Tamorlan y itinerarion y enarracion del viage y relacion de la embajada
| Name of text: | Historia del gran Tamorlan y itinerarion y enarracion del viage y relacion de la embajada |
| Author of text: | Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo |
| Date of text: | after 1403 |
| Date of person in text: | d. 1412 |
| Name of structure in text: | S. John the Baptist in the Rock |
| Type of structure in text: | Convent |
| Date of structure in text | 11th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 11 AD |
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| Country in text: | Turkey |
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| City in text: | Constantinople |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Portico, apse |
| Description of mosaic in text: | On the first/main entry door is a mosaic representing Le Précurseur [John the Baptist]. The portico is formed of four arches, the vault of which is decorated with mosaics representing all sorts of designs and beautiful figures. […] The vault of the apse is decorated with a mosaic representing the Eternal Father. Everywhere is richly decorated, the floor as well. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 11 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, Historia del gran Tamorlan y itinerarion y enarracion del viage y relacion de la embajada (Madrid: 1782), pp. 61-62, quoted in R. Janin, La Géographie Ecclésiastique de L’Empire Byzantin: Le Siège de Constantinople et le Patriarcat Ecuménique, (Paris: Institut Français d’Études Byzantines, 1953), 3 vols,vol. 3 Les Églises et les Monastères, p. 440 |
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