Le Pèlerinage
| Name of text: | Le Pèlerinage |
| Author of text: | Étienne de Novgorod |
| Date of text: | c. 1350 |
| Date of person in text: | 14th century |
| Name of structure in text: | S. John of Stoudios |
| Type of structure in text: | Church/monastery |
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| Country in text: | Turkey |
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| City in text: | Constantinople |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | dome |
| Description of mosaic in text: | It is very large and covered by a very high vault; the image there shines like the sun, richly decorated in gold; we were very surprised because it was adorned with pearls, and so a painter couldn’t paint there. |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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| Bibliography: | Étienne de Novgorod, Le Pèlerinage, in B. de Khitrowo, Itinéraires russes in Orient (Geneva: 1889),113-125, see p. 121 https://archive.org/details/itinrairesr usse00khitgoog Janin, R., 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, p. 453 |
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