jube
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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 M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
In the middle of the nave was erected a magnificent jube, where the throne of Charles X. was placed.
From The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
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 Walter Pater
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 M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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 James Freeman Clarke
