Libro d’oltramare / A Voyage Beyond the Seas
| Name of text: | Libro d’oltramare / A Voyage Beyond the Seas |
| Author of text: | Niccolò of Poggibonsi |
| Date of text: | 1346-1350 |
| Date of person in text: | 14th century |
| Name of structure in text: | Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Rotunda |
| Type of structure in text: | Church |
| Date of structure in text | 4th, 7th, 11th, 12th |
| Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 12 AD |
| Country in text: | Israel |
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| City in text: | Jerusalem |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Above the columns in the wall of the chapel there is a very beautiful mosaic work. Therein the Emperor Constantine s represented, with the cross in hand; and on the side is his mother S. Helen, cross in hand, and around are the prophets, who foretold the coming of Christ, each one with a scroll in hand. |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | [Fra] Niccolò of Poggibonsi, A Voyage Beyond the Seas (1346-1350), ch.17,trans by T. Bellorini and E Hoade (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1945, repr. 1993), pp. 13-14 |
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