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| enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips |
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| a characteristic feature of Insular illuminated manuscripts. They are pages of mainly geometrical ornamentation, which may include repeated animal forms, typically placed at the beginning of each of the four Gospels in Gospel Books |
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| A room set apart for writing, esp. one in a monastery where manuscripts were copied. |
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| The first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). |
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| The teaching or revelation of Christ. |
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| A person who seeks to convert others to the Christian faith, esp. by preaching. |
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| Formed in relief, as a pattern on metal. by pressing or hammering on the reverse side. |
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| A community of persons, esp. monks or nuns, living under religious vows. |
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| A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, with a wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other. |
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| a square thats created where the nave and transept intersect; determines the prop. of the building. |
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| a monumental western front to a church, treated as a tower or towers containing an entrance and vestibule below and a chapel above. |
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