rubricate
/ˈruːbrɪkeɪt
/verb chiefly historical
Add elaborate, typically red, capital letters or other decorations to (a manuscript): a 42-line Bible, which a scribe finished rubricating on 24 August 1456...
- Although scholars dispute the details of the early production of his press, the first dated item is a copy of a 42-line Bible, which a scribe finished rubricating on 24 August 1456.
- The text was rubricated either by the scribe himself, or one of his colleagues, who highlighted in red ink significant portions, phrases and words.
- The text is rubricated throughout with red titles and red Lombards.
Derivatives
rubrication
- Many woodcuts copy manuscript illuminations, and some try printed rubrication of paraphs or initials.
rubricator
- Often, even into the fifteenth century, the rubricator and the scribe were the same person, as is the case in the Kirby I.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Latin rubricat- 'marked in red', from the verb rubricare, from rubrica (see rubric).
Rhymes
- Albinoni, Tomaso
- albinotic
- Albinus
- Albion
- albite
- albite felsite
- albite porphyry
- albitic
- albitisation
- albitise
- albitised
- albitite
- albitization
- albitize
- albitized
- albizzia
- albo-carbon
- albocracy
- albomycin
- albondigas
- Al Borak
- albricia
- Albright hereditary osteodystrophy
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel
- Albright's dystrophy