Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis super Terrae Sanctae Recuperatione et Conservatione/ Secrets for True Crusaders to help them recover the Holy Land

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Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis super Terrae Sanctae Recuperatione et Conservatione/ Secrets for True Crusaders to help them recover the Holy Land

Author of text: Marino Sanuto the Elder
Date of text: 1306-09, rev. 1320
Date of person in text: c. 1260-1338
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: Nave
Description of mosaic in text:

T]he nave of the church above the pillars is of most beauteous and noble mosaic work, whereon is depicted all history from the creation of the world to the coming of Christ to judge the same.

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Tesserae silver mentioned in text? No
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? No
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Bibliography:

Sanuto, Marino, Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis super Terrae Sanctae Recuperatione et Conservatione, ed. by J. Bongars, in Gesta Dei per Francos, vol. ii. pp. 1–288 (Hanover, 1611)
W Harvey, WR Lethaby, OM Dalton, HAA Cruso and AC Headlam, ed by R Weir Schultz, The church of the Nativity at Bethlehem (Batsford, London, 1910).

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