rubricated text
England
15th Century
Source: Hannah Bower, 'The Problem with Practicality: Rethinking Late Medieval English Medical Recipes, 1375–1500', PhD Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018.
Recipe Details
Ingredients
rubricated text
Evidence
"When it is relevant to the discussion, rubricated text or display script is marked in bold."
Remarks
In the study of late medieval vernacular medical remedy books, the author uses bold formatting in her transcriptions to indicate where the original manuscripts employed rubrication or display script (p. 5). Rubrication is explicitly noted as a feature of WT, MS Wellcome 542, f. 1v, where it is used for headings such as 'For him þat may not wel see and hath rede eyn' (p. 10-11). The use of rubricated headings serves to organize strings of recipes, allowing the reader to quickly move from one cure to another (p. 11).
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
scribal organisation
codicological evidence
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
ColorRed
RegionEngland
Approx. Year1450
Source Information
AuthorHannah Bower, 'The Problem with Practicality: Rethinking Late Medieval English Medical Recipes, 1375–1500', PhD Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018.
CollectionWT, MS Wellcome 542, f. 1v
Language
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