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: | Clavijo, Ruy Gonzalez de |
| Date of text: | after 1403 |
| Date of person in text: | d. 1412 |
| Name of structure in text: | S. George Mangana |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
| Date of structure in text | |
| Century of structure 1: | 11 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Country in text: | Asia Minor |
| Region in text: | |
| City in text: | Constantinople |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | The nave of the church is very high and completely covered with mosaics, of which one represents the ascension of our Saviour Jesus Christ […] In the middle of the vault of this church, near to the entrance door, God the Father is represented in mosaic: one can see also the true cross that an angel, coming out of the clouds in the sky, shows to the apostles at the moment when the Holy Spirit descends on them in the form of fire, a mosaic marvelously made. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 11 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
| Colour descriptions in text: | |
| 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, pp. 78-79 |
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| Comments: | Now the site of the Topkapi Palace. |