The Pilgrimage of the Russian Abbot Daniel in the Holy Land, 1106-1107 A.D.
| Name of text: | The Pilgrimage of the Russian Abbot Daniel in the Holy Land, 1106-1107 A.D. |
| Author of text: | Abbot Daniel [Daniel Kievsky] |
| Date of text: | 1106-7 |
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| Name of structure in text: | Church of the Nativity of Christ |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
| Date of structure in text | 339, 530, 1165-69 |
| Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 12 AD |
| Country in text: | Israel |
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| City in text: | Bethlehem |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Ceiling of grotto, all over the cavern of the manger |
| Description of mosaic in text: | A large church in the form of a cross, with a wooden roof, rises above the grotto of the Nativity. The roof is entirely covered with tin (lead?), and the interior is ornamented with pictures in mosaic. The place [of the Nativity] is on the east side, and opposite, a little to the right, is the manger of Christ underneath a rock of stone on the west side; and it was in this sacred manger that Christ, our God, was placed wrapped in poor swaddling clothes; He who suffered for our salvation. These two places - that of the Nativity and that of the manger -are quite close to one another, being only three sagénes apart, and in the same cavern, which is covered with mosaics and well paved. |
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| Bibliography: | The Pilgrimage of the Russian Abbot Daniel in the Holy Land, 1106-1107 A.D., annotated by Sir C. W.Wislon (London, 1895), chs. 47, 48. He translated it from the French trans by Madame de Khitrowo. |
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| Comments: | Wislon notes: Traces of the two first were seen and described by Quaresmius (1616-26);the third was destroyed. Quaresmius ii, 368-9. Franciscus Quaresmius (1583-1650) [no text available]. |