If no scriptorium was available, then “ separate little rooms were assigned to book copying ; they were situated in such a way that each scribe had to himself a window open to the cloister walk .” The separation of these monks from the rest of the cloister indicates just how revered these monks were within their society.

This pre-supposes very careful planning by the scribe even before he put pen to parchment .” If the scribe and the illuminator were separate labors the planning period allowed for adequate space to be given to each individual.

If the scribe ran out of room while doing the transcription, he would just stop the spell wherever he was and would not continue.

If necessary, the scribe should state that he is preparing for the sake of a Sefer Torah but that he may change his mind if he wishes.

If the filter shows amplitude ripple within the passband, the x dB point refers to the point where the gain is x dB below the nominal passband gain rather than x dB below the maximum gain.

" If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther.

If the low-order bit is 0, the remaining 7 bits of the DSAP specify an individual address, which refers to a single local service access point ( LSAP ) to which the packet should be delivered.

If the low-order bit is 1, the remaining 7 bits of the DSAP specify a group address, which refers to a group of LSAPs to which the packet should be delivered.

If an RFC becomes an Internet Standard ( STD ), it is assigned an STD number but retains its RFC number ; however, when an Internet Standard is updated, its number stays the same and it simply refers to a different RFC or set of RFCs.

If the server does not use the request URI, the response should be 201 and contain an entity which describes the states of the request and refers to the new resource, and a Location header.

If the statement is true, x refers to the man to my left.

If it chooses the former, the telephone company will face less regulation but will also have to comply with FCC regulations requiring what the Act refers to as " open video systems.

If the NEP refers to the signal power absorbed in the detector, it is known as the electrical NEP.

If instead it refers to the signal power incident on the detector system, it is called the optical NEP.

If, as has been suggested, the reference in the Talmud to " a star which appears once in seventy years that makes the captains of the ships err " ( see above ) refers to Halley's Comet, it may be a reference to the 66 CE appearance, because this passage is attributed to the Rabbi Yehoshua ben Hananiah.

If the " Down time " ( with space ) refers to the start of " downtime " ( without space ) and " up time " ( with space ) refers to the start of " uptime " ( without space ), the formula will be:

She concluded with a reference to the title of Hyman's book, " If it refers to money, if my memory serves me right, I've been your keeper all these many years.

If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther ( assuming the biblical Ahasuerus is indeed Xerxes I ).

In the Fatboy Slim song, " Weapon of Choice ", the line " If you walk without rhythm / You won't attract the worm ..." refers to the science fiction novel Dune.

If this is true it refers not to its capture in the Second Punic War ( 211 BC ) but to its submission to Rome in 338 BC, placing the date of foundation at about 600 BC, while Etruscan power was at its highest.

If, as according to Axel Kock, Fárbauti as " dangerous striker " refers to " lightning ", the figure would appear to be part of an early nature myth alluding to wildfire ( Loki ) being produced by lightning ( Fárbauti ) striking dry tinder such as leaves ( Laufey ) or pine needles ( Nál ).

The quoted sentence is of the form " If A then B " where A refers to the sentence itself and B refers to " Germany borders China ".

Because A refers to the overall sentence, therefore assuming A is true is the same as assuming that the statement " If A then B " is also true.

If used in this sense, the name " Rotselaar " refers only to Rotselaar-Centre and doesn't include Heikant.

If sleeveless, such a garment may be called a tank top in British English, while " tank top " in US English refers to a sleeveless shirt or undershirt.

If the word " soul " refers to a non-bodily component in a person that can continue in some way after death, then Buddhism does not deny the existence of a soul.

If the slope grew steeper and the groves more dim, she tried not to heed.

If a child watched its progress he whispered, `` Hay, hay, load of hay -- make a wish and turn away '', and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses' feet returned no more.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

If you cut down these horrible buildings you'll have no more traffic jams.

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

If anything, the conservative Democrats were more opposed to Hearst than the Republicans.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.

If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

If we make it established custom that whenever butchery on the highways grows excessive, say beyond 25,000 per annum, then somebody is going to hang, it follows that the more eminent the victim, the more impressive the lesson.

If he wanted to know anything, he would end up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.

`` If I catch you one more time down here without stockings '' --

If they feel that we are taking a long-term view of their problems and are prepared to enter into reasonably long-term association with them in their development activities, they will be much more likely to undertake the difficult tasks required.

If the resulting difference for the particular State is less or more than these extremes, the State's allotment percentage must be raised or lowered to the appropriate extreme.

If the resulting difference for the particular State is less or more than these extremes, the State's Federal share must be raised or lowered to the appropriate extreme.

If your child is under 19 or is a student you may also claim an exemption for him if he qualifies as your dependent, even though he earns $600 or more.

If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.

If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.

If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear weapons.

If we could use all the small airfields we have in this country, we could disperse our strategic aircraft by a factor of 10 or more.

If the superintendents do not receive more cooperation from Handlers, it has been suggested that licensed Judges also be qualified to judge this Class.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

If notched for the battens, they would require more work, be weakened and limber holes would have to be bored so that bilge water could flow through.