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McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia · 1867–1887

Capsum

Capsum is a term for the nave of a church. Gregory of Tours (Hist. Fracnc. ii, 14) describes a certain church as having thirty-two windows in the sanctuary, twenty in the nave ("in capso ").

Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, John McClintock and James Strong (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867–1887). Public domain. Text from SwordSearcher’s module, as published by biblicalcyclopedia.com. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: titles misread in our source corrected from the Internet Archive’s scans of the printed volumes; paragraphs our source broke mid-sentence joined.