Embassy to Tamurlaine

Name of text: Embassy to Tamurlaine
Author of text: Clavijo
Date of text: after 1403
Date of person in text:
Name of structure in text: Virgin Peribleptos
Type of structure in text: church
Date of structure in text
Century of structure 1:
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Country in text: Asia Minor
Region in text:
City in text: Constantinople
Specific place of mosaic in text:
Description of mosaic in text: tree of Jesse, feasts
Mosaic date in text: 11 AD
Tesserae silver mentioned in text?
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? Yes
Colour descriptions in text: rich
azure
Bibliography:

Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, Historia del gran Tamorlan y itinerarion y enarracion del viage y relacion de la embajada (Madrid: 1782), pp., 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, pp. 227-231, see quotes on pp. 229 and 230

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