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red book, red-book
A book bound in red.
1. a. As the name of individual books of an official character, or otherwise important.
Red Book of the Exchequer, a miscellaneous volume, containing copies of charters, statutes, surveys, etc., originally compiled in the 13th century, and printed in 1896 (Rolls Series); see also quot. 1820. Red Book of Hergest, a Welsh manuscript of the 14–15th c. (now the property of Jesus College, Oxford), containing the tales known as the Mabinogion and other pieces in prose and verse.
1479Bristol Rec. in Eng. Gilds (1870) 419 All the chauntry preestis whos composicions are enrolled in the rede boke. 1574in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 352 A certifycatt sent downe from London to this cytye as the same appearith in the redd booke. 1699Bp. W. Nicolson Eng. Hist. Library iii. iii. (1714) 213 There is also, in the keeping of the King's Remembrancer, an antient Miscellany of several notable Treatises; which Volume is commonly cited, and call'd by the Name of Liber ruber Scaccarii, or Red-Book of the Exchequer. 1700Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 828 The Copy of this Charter..is entred in the Red Book of the Exchequer at Dublin. 1715–6in Catal. MSS. Wales in B.M. (1903) 408 Since I perceived Jesus College had an undoubted right to the Red Book of Hergest. 1800in Rep. on Ossian (1805) App. 278 He remembers that his father had a book which was called the Red Book,..which..contained a good deal of the history of the Highland Clans. 1820Trans. Royal Irish Acad. XIII. iii. 181 An antient book of record, called the Red Book of the Exchequer, which is preserved in the office of the chief remembrancer of that court in Ireland. 1896H. Hall Red Bk. Exchequer (Rolls) I. Pref. 1 The Red Book of the Exchequer belongs to the class of Entry Books usually termed Precedent Books, but more correctly Registers, or Books of Remembrance.
†b. A book containing the names of all persons holding office under the State or receiving pensions from it. Obs.
1800Asiatic Ann. Reg., Proc. E. Ind. Ho. 93/1 The proprietors of India Stock would soon have a Red-book of their own, which would rise with the Red-book of England. 1820(title) The Extraordinary Red Book: An Account of all Places, Pensions, Sinecures, Grants, &c. The Expenditure of the Civil List, the Finances and Debt of Great Britain.
†2. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
1688Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. ii. s.v. Red, A Witche's red Book, a Catalogue of such as have sealed to the Devil with their own bloud, la rouge liste.
3. A popular name for the ‘Royal Kalendar, or Complete..Annual Register’ (published from 1767 to 1893); also, the title of a similar work of later date (see quot. 1847).
1788Observer No. 98 ⁋6 He measures his devoirs with an exactitude that bespeaks him a correct interpreter of The Red Book. 1814Moore Poems, Epigram, We've lost the Court-Guide, Ma'am, but here's the Red Book. 1823Hazlitt Liber Amoris 55 Is the name on the frank: see if you can decypher it by a Red-book. 1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 278 Dukes, earls, viscounts, and so on to any extent down the ladder of honour in the Red Book. 1847(title) Webster's Royal Red Book; or Court and Fashionable Register: comprising..an alphabetical list of the nobility and gentry, with their town and country residences, etc. etc. 1888Rider Haggard Mr. Meeson's Will xiv, He..seized a Red Book, in which he discovered that Lord Holmhurst's..London house was in Hanover Square.
4. Little Red Book: a popular name used in Western countries for ‘Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung’ (published in English in 1966). Also in extended and allusive use.
1967[see Maoism]. 1970G. Jackson Let. 17 Apr. in Soledad Brother (1971) 225 Burn it; all the fascist literature, burn that too. Then equip yourself with the Little Red Book. 1971D. Bagley Freedom Trap viii. 193 Communist Albania has ceased to hew to the Moscow line. Enver Hoxha, the Albanian party boss, has read the Little Red Book and thinks the thoughts of Mao. 1974Times 21 Oct. 12/8 A hotelier in..Lübeck has arranged to provide in all bedrooms..a German translation of Chairman Mao's little red book. 1976J. Crosby Nightfall x. 47 If I write my own little Red Book, that will be in it. Hit the pricks—or they get ideas. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 May 22/3 Photos showed rampaging teenagers waving their little red books of Mao quotations. |