Rubrication

(From Lat. rubricatus = colored red) the highlighting of important text passages such as headings and the beginning of chapters with lead oxide (vermilion-colored dye). Gold ink has rarely been used for rubrication.

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WHERE? In our store in Regensburg's Old Town.

We have been running a specialist store for facsimiles for nearly 15 years in Regensburg's Old Town, just opposite the "Schottenportal" of the Romanesque Scots Monastery of St. Jacob at Jakobstraße 6.