Embassy to Tamurlaine
| Name of text: | Embassy to Tamurlaine |
| Author of text: | Clavijo |
| Date of text: | after 1403 |
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| Name of structure in text: | Virgin Peribleptos |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
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| Country in text: | Asia Minor |
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| City in text: | Constantinople |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | |
| Description of mosaic in text: | tree of Jesse, feasts |
| Mosaic date in text: | 11 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
| Colour descriptions in text: | rich azure |
| Bibliography: | Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, Historia del gran Tamorlan y itinerarion y enarracion del viage y relacion de la embajada (Madrid: 1782), pp., 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. 227-231, see quotes on pp. 229 and 230 |
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