The Travels of Ibn Jubayr
| Name of text: | The Travels of Ibn Jubayr |
| Author of text: | Ibn Jubayr |
| Date of text: | Christmas Day 1184 |
| Date of person in text: | 1145-1217 |
| Name of structure in text: | La Martorana |
| Type of structure in text: | Church |
| Date of structure in text | 1143 |
| Century of structure 1: | 12 AD |
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| Country in text: | Italy |
| Region in text: | Sicily |
| City in text: | Palermo |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Inner walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | The inner walls are all embellished with gold. There are slabs of coloured marble, the like of which we had never seen, inlaid throughout with gold mosaic and surrounded by branches [formed from] green mosaic. In its upper parts are well placed windows of gilded glass which steal all looks by the brilliance of their rays, and bewitch the soul. God protect us [from their allurement]. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 12 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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| Bibliography: | The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, ed. and trans. by Roland Broadhurst (London: Goodword Books, 1952, repr. 2011), p. 349 and n. 164. |
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| Comments: | Jubayr calls this church the 'Church of the Antiochian', after its founder George of Antioch, Admiral of the Sicilian Fleet. |