red and blue rubrication

Evidence

"Recipe collection using red and blue rubrication. Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.6.33, f. 30r"

Remarks

The author identifies the use of red and blue rubrication in 15th-century Middle English recipe collections (p. 10). Rubrication is specifically used for titles or to distinguish specific remedies, as discussed on p. 12 where the author notes that such text is signaled in bold in her transcriptions. Specific manuscripts mentioned with rubrication include MS Kk.6.33 (p. 10, 211) and MS Douce 84 (p. 43). Some collections also featured titles in an 'elaborate display script' (p. 10, Illustration C.1).