JUBE  , the

French architectural term (taken from the imperative of Lat. jubere, to order) for the chancel or choir screen, which in England is known as the rood-screen (see Rom) . Above the screen was a gallery or loft, from which the words " Jube Domine benedicere " were spoken by the deacon before the reading of the Gospel, and hence probably the name . One of the finest jubes in France is that of the church of the Madeleineat Troyes, in rich flamboyant Gothic . A later example, of the Renaissance period, c . 1600, is in the church of St Etienne du Mont, Paris . In the Low Countries there are many fine examples in marble, of which one of the most perfect from Bois-le-Duc is'now in the Victoria and Albert Museum .