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Detail showing the use of rubrication from the Gellone Sacramentary, 8th century (Paris, …
(credit: Courtesy of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris)
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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If a buyer made a selection from fascicles that had already been copied, or demanded familiar texts that the bookseller already had in stock, as Robinson suggests, the first scribe might well have wanted to give these fascicles as homogenous an appearance as possible by employing a single rubricator and a single artist for the decorated initials.
Manual to miscellany: stages in the commercial copying of vernacular ... by Taylor, Andrew / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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