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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference

Mills; the type black-letter, with rubricated initials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode's last rubricated edition of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850] Reference

Although it is printed, spaces were left for rubricated or historiated initials to be put in later by book artists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book of the Day: Incunabula] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850] Reference

The same year he picked up for ten shillings, in London, an early sixteenth-century folio, rubricated and with illuminated initials.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

The Bestiary is written continuously, but the initials of the lines and, in the long metres, of the half lines are mostly rubricated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts] Reference

The black-letter type, with rubricated initials, signified a philosophic pessimism enlightened by the conviction that in duty one might find, after all, an excuse for life and a hope for humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

George Borrow are rubricated saints in my calendar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madness of May] Reference

Illness, poverty, and despair are given rubricated pages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinster Book] Reference

The black-letter type, with rubricated initials, signified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baxter's Procrustes] Reference

In decorating, one artist rubricated, another painted the miniatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages] Reference

The rubricated titles are of somewhat later date than the body of the text.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference

They are rubricated, and the nine stanzas form part of a prescribed service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference

Only in the middle there was a rubricated card, very neatly painted by hand, with these words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tono Bungay] Reference

Illuminated pages, rubricated headings, and fine illustrations were conspicuous by their absence.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern] Reference

But what of color -- splendid initials in red, blue, or green, rubricated headings, lines, or paragraphs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Booklover and His Books] Reference

The paper was to be of hand-made linen, from the Kelmscott Mills; the type black-letter, with rubricated initials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baxter's Procrustes] Reference

Thus, there exist Syriac MSS. of the Gospels of the viith and even of the vith century, in which the Lessons are rubricated in the text or on the margin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark] Reference

This was a copy in the original, published at Antwerp in 1603, prettily rubricated, and elaborately adorned with some forty or fifty copperplates illustrative of the text.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac] Reference

A rubricated statement (not always very easy to decipher) of the occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark] Reference

1475 for the Diocese of Constance, of which a rubricated copy is to be found in the British Museum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

My poor grandparents were -- rubricated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World Set Free] Reference

Folio, calf, fine copy, rubricated capitals, gilt edges. 16s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850] Reference