rubricated

With good taste, black ink was most frequently selected for the text; red ink was used only for the more prominent words, and the catch-letters, then known as the rubricated letters.

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

Although it is printed, spaces were left for rubricated or historiated initials to be put in later by book artists.

Archive 2009-08-26 Lynne M Thomas 2009

Although it is printed, spaces were left for rubricated or historiated initials to be put in later by book artists.

Book of the Day: Incunabula Lynne M Thomas 2009

I affirmly swear to it that it rooly and cooly boolyhooly was with my holyhagionous lips continuously poised upon the rubricated annuals of saint ulstar. —

Finnegans Wake 2006

All are in the same type, the heavy-faced gothic of his second font, are rubricated by the same hand, and though two of them are undated, were all evidently printed at about the same time.

Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name

First initial rubricated in the same style and by the same hand as in the _De duobus amantibus_.

Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name

However, on the chance of being useful I send you an exact copy of the rubricated title-page of the reprint, which is as follows:

Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 Various

The Harvard Library had some few of this fine engraved label printed in red ink, and placed in the rarer books of the library -- as a reminder that the works containing the rubricated book-plates were not to be drawn out by students.

A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

The Bestiary is written continuously, but the initials of the lines and, in the long metres, of the half lines are mostly rubricated ....

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

The same year he picked up for ten shillings, in London, an early sixteenth-century folio, rubricated and with illuminated initials.

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan