The Wanderings of Felix Fabri
| Name of text: | The Wanderings of Felix Fabri |
| Author of text: | Felix Fabri |
| Date of text: | 1480-83 |
| Date of person in text: | 1441-1502 |
| Name of structure in text: | Church of the Nativity |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
| Date of structure in text | 339, 530s, 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: | Walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | She [Helena] covered all the walls and all the pavement with white or variegated marble, and caused the upper part of the walls to be painted in mosaic work. […] This wall, from the columns as far as the windows, is not painted, but inlaid, being adorned with mosaic work with wondrous art on either side, like the church of S. Mark at Venice, with figures from the New Testament, and corresponding figures from the Old Testament, and the whole church in all its walls is either cased with white polished marble, or adorned with mosaic work. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 4 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Felix Fabri, The Book of the Wanderings of Felix Fabri, trans. by Aubrey Stewart (London: Palestine Pilgrims Text Society, 1896), pp. 589-591 |
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