red and blue rubrication

Evidence

"The manuscript also contains the red and blue rubrication typical of many fifteenth-century manuscripts and used to separate the recipes from one another."

Remarks

This codex features a smart bastard anglicana hand with textura influence, indicating a careful and slow copying process (p. 101). The red and blue pigments used for rubrication were employed functionally to distinguish and separate individual medical recipes from one another (p. 101). Despite these concessions to appearance, the manuscript's small dimensions suggest it was designed for itinerant use rather than lavish display (p. 101).