Also 8 juba. [a. L. jubē ‘bid’ or ‘order thou’; said to be from the words Jube, domine, benedīcere, pronounced from it by the deacon before the reading of the Gospel. (See Myrroure of Our Ladye (1873), 102.)]
1. A rood-loft or screen and gallery dividing the choir from the nave.
1767. Ducarel, Anglo-Norm. Antiq., 87. The jube or screen at the west end of the choir is a beautiful piece of architecture.
1829. G. P. R. James, Richelieu, III. xi. 240. Cross the jube, through the monks’ gallery round the choir.
1861. Beresf. Hope, Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., 174. A feature … reduced to its subsequent form in the 11th or 12th century … the jube having been then substituted for the primitive ambo.
† 2. See quot. (erron. juba). Obs.
1725. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 17th C., I. v. 68/2. The Preacher was plac’d in a Chair lifted up, which the Ancients call’d Chair, Throne, Tribunal, Juba, Exedra; which was ordinarily plac’d within the Enclosure of the Choir. The Bishops … sometimes mounted the Ambon or Juba, which was betwixt the Choir and the Nave.
