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Narthax |
a vestibule or entrance porch of a church (e.g. St. Peter's or Sta. Constanza) |
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Catacomb |
an underground cemetery consisting of tunnels. Contains niches for urns and saracophagi. |
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Basilica |
a large rectangular building, built with a clerestory, side aisles, and an apse. Roman centres for administration, later adapted for Christian use (e.g. Basilica Ulpia or St. Peter's) |
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Ambulatory |
the passage or walkway around the apses in a Basilican church (e.g. Islamic Art - the Dome of the Rock) |
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Triforium |
the element of the interior elevation of a church found directly below the clerestory, consisting of a series of arched openings (e.g. ??) |
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Scriptoria |
a room in a monastery housing a workshop for writing or copying manuscripts (e.g. St. Gall Plan) |
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Clerestory |
the topmost zone of wall with windows in a Basilica, extending above the aisle roofs (e.g. St Peter's Basilica or Sta. Constanza) |
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Cloister |
an enclosed space, open to the sky, heart of monastery, surrounded by walkway, fountain and garden, most important building (e.g. St Gall's Plan) |
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Codex |
a book or group of manuscript pages (folios), held together by stitching or other binding (e.g. Codex Mendoza or Book of Kells) |
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Illuminated |
a painting on paper or parchment used as illustration and/or decoration for manuscripts or albums. The illustrators are called Illuminators (e.g. Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels) |
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Manuscript |
handwritten book or document on parchment (e.g. Book of Kells, Book of Durrow) |
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Pendentive |
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