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Definition of Rubrication
1. Noun. A form of calligraphy, in medieval manuscripts, in which added text was coloured in red ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rubrication
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubrication
Literary usage of Rubrication
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1914)
"If so, he must also have printed the almanac in black only, since our issues from
1752 on have no rubrication. The subject of color-printing by colonial ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Johann Mentelin, who completed a Latin Bible in that year, according to a
rubrication in a copy at Freiburg in the Breisgau ; 2. ..."
3. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"But the date in the Prognostication has been falsified from 1482 into 1460, and
the rubrication in the Tractatus is a forgery.4 The eight books are now ..."
4. "Franks, Burgundians, and Aquitanians" and the Royal Coronation Ceremony in by Elizabeth A. R. Brown (1992)
"The rubrication throughout is unassuming but complete, although again more
attention was paid to the king's ordo than to the queen's. ..."
5. Catalogue of the John Boyd Thacher Collection of Incunabula by John Boyd Thacher, Frederick William Ashley (1915)
"Same rubrication as the first copy. Numerous manuscript notes. Third copy: 202
x 150 mm. Without rubrication. A few marginal manuscript notes in the table. ..."
6. The Development of Printing as an Art: A Handbook of the Exhibiton in Honor by Society of Printers (Boston, Mass.), Boston Public Library (1906)
"Announcement form, showing the adaptation of a missal decorative initial and
consistent rubrication. Printed by The Gillis Press, New York. No. 19. ..."
7. The Literary Collector: A Monthly Magazine of Booklore and Bibliography (1903)
"... observations on the use of red letters, I differ from him in the conclusions
he has drawn. The rubrication was done ..."
8. Domesday Studies: An Analysis and Digest of the Staffordshire Survey by Robert William Eyton (1881)
"The rubrication of the hundreds in which the respective manors were situate is
inadequate and misleading. In some cases it is absolutely false.1 The first ..."
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