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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 532 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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JUBE , the See also:

French architectural See also:

TERM

term (taken from the imperative of See also:

LAT

Lat. jubere, to See also:

order) for the See also:

CHANCEL (through O. Fr. from Lat. plur. cancelli, dim. of cancer, grating, lattice, probably connected with an Indo-European root Kar-, to bend; cf. circus, curve, &c.)

chancel or See also:

CHOIR (0. Fr. cuer from Lat. chorus; pronounced quire, and until the end of the 17th century so spelt, the spelling being altered to agree with the Fr. chceur)

choir See also:

SCREEN (usually, but very doubtfully, connected with Lat. scrinium, a box for holding books, from scribere, to write; a connexion with Ger. Schranke, barrier, has been suggested)

screen, which in See also:

England is known as the See also:

ROOD (O.E. rod, a stick, another form of " rod, O.E. rodd, possibly cognate with Lat. rudis, a staff)

rood-screen (see Rom). Above the screen was a See also:

GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery or See also:

LOFT (connected with " lift," i.e. raised in the air; O. Eng. lyft; cf. Ger. Luft; the French term is grenier and Ger. Boden)

loft, from which the words " Jube Domine benedicere " were spoken by the See also:

DEACON (Gr. S&& ovos, minister, servant)

deacon before the See also:

READING

reading of the See also:

GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

Gospel, and hence probably the name. One of the finest jubes in See also:

France is that of the See also:

church of the Madeleineat See also:

TROYES

Troyes, in See also:

rich flamboyant See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic. A later example, of the See also:

RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance See also:

period, c. 1600, is in the church of St See also:

ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

Etienne du Mont, See also:

Paris. In the See also:

Low Countries there are many See also:

FINE

fine examples in See also:

MARBLE (from Lat. marmor, Gr. pApµapos, shining stone)

marble, of which one of the most perfect from Bois-le-Duc is'now in the See also:

Victoria and See also:

Albert Museum.

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