rubrication

Detail showing the use of rubrication from the Gellone Sacramentary, 8th century (Paris, …

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In calligraphy and typography, the use of handwriting or type of a different colour on a page, derived from the practice of setting off liturgical directions, headings of statutes, and the like in red. Specifically, it applied to the rules prescribed for the conduct of religious services as set forth in breviaries, prayer books, and missals. Though red is the traditional colour for rubrication (from Latin, rubricare: “to colour red”), the term is now extended to include inks of other colours either applied by hand or printed.

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No references found	The collection is valuable for its attention not only to great writers and literary texts of the early modern period (especially Shakespeare's and Jonson's plays and poems) but also to woodcut illustrations, pamphlets, broadsides, emergent advertising strategies, rubrication, censorship, and propaganda. Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England by Brown, Phyllis R. / Renaissance Quarterly Pointing is ancillary, and so is use of majuscule letters and rubrication. Graphotactics of the Old English 'Alexander's Letter to Aristotle' by Stevick, Robert D. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies 3) Yet if much of the material seems little better than competent hack work, the book is a handsome one, carefully copied into double columns with generous use of rubrication and marginal flourishes in green, blue, and red ink, and a series of what were once probably over thirty miniatures, although only five survive. Manual to miscellany: stages in the commercial copying of vernacular ... by Taylor, Andrew / Yearbook of English Studies	Rubinshtein, Nikolai Leonidovich Rubinshtein, Sergei Rubinshtein, Sergei Leonidovich Rubinstein Rubinstein, Anton Rubinstein, Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein, Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein, Arthur Rubinstein, Artur Rubinstein, Helena Rubinstein, Nikolai Rubinstein, Nikolai Grigorevich rubisco Ruble Ruble Society Rublev, Andrei Rublevo Rubner, Max Rubo, Frants Rubo, Frants Alekseevich rubout key RuBP carboxylase/oxygenase rubredoxin rubriblast rubric rubrication rubricyte Rubruquis, Guillaume Rubtsov, Nikolai Rubtsov, Nikolai Mikhailovich Rubtsova, Olga Rubtsova, Olga Nikolaevna Rubtsovsk Rubus Nessenis Ruby ruby copper ore ruby glass Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge ruby laser ruby maser ruby mica ruby silver ruby spinel ruby zinc Ruby, Jack L. Rucavietis Ruchev, Boris Ruchev, Boris Aleksandrovich ruck Rucker, Nap Rückert, Friedrich	rubratoxin rubredoxin rubredoxin rubredoxin Rubredoxin from Clostridium Pasteurianum Rubredoxin from Pyrococcus Furiosus Rubredoxins Rubredoxins Rubredoxins rubriblast rubriblast rubric rubric rubric rubric rubric Rubric of a Statute rubrical rubrical rubrical rubrical rubricate rubricate rubricate rubricated rubricated rubricates rubricates rubricating rubricating rubrication rubrications rubrications rubricator rubricator rubricator rubricators rubricators rubrician rubricism Rubricity Rubrics Rubrics Rubrics Rubrics rubricyte rubricyte rubricyte rubrospinal rubrospinal decussation Rubrospinal tract rubrothalamic rubrum Rubruquis, Guillaume rubruria rubs rubs rubs rubs rubs rubs

The collection is valuable for its attention not only to great writers and literary texts of the early modern period (especially Shakespeare's and Jonson's plays and poems) but also to woodcut illustrations, pamphlets, broadsides, emergent advertising strategies, rubrication, censorship, and propaganda.

Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England by Brown, Phyllis R. / Renaissance Quarterly

Pointing is ancillary, and so is use of majuscule letters and rubrication.

Graphotactics of the Old English 'Alexander's Letter to Aristotle' by Stevick, Robert D. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies

3) Yet if much of the material seems little better than competent hack work, the book is a handsome one, carefully copied into double columns with generous use of rubrication and marginal flourishes in green, blue, and red ink, and a series of what were once probably over thirty miniatures, although only five survive.

Manual to miscellany: stages in the commercial copying of vernacular ... by Taylor, Andrew / Yearbook of English Studies

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