jube

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Our people lie under one of the great marble slabs before the jube, some of the memorial brass balusters of which are engraved with their names and the dates of their decease.

From Imaginary Portraits by Pater, Walter

Among the other decorative features are an elaborately conceived "tree of Jesse," an unusually massive rood-loft or jube, and a high-altar of much magnificence.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Under the organ are two sculptured Renaissance bas-reliefs, taken from the ancient jube, and representing a "Descent from the Cross" and "Christ Bearing the Cross."

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

The latter, being at Rome, heard this sentence read from the writings of the former: “Da quod jubes, et jube quod vis”—Give what thou commandest, and command what thou willest.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman