 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 628 pages
...pulverized charcoal, &c. Red ink is also found, in ancient times, in manuscripts, of a dazzling beauty. With it were written the initial letters, the first...and the titles, which were thence called rubrics, and the writer rubrualor. More rarely, but still quite frequently, blue ink is found in ancient manuscripts... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 608 pages
...pulverized charcoal, &c. Red ink is also found, in ancient times, in manuscripts, of a dazzling beauty. With it were written the initial letters, the first lines, and the titles, which were thenee called rubrics, and the writer rubricator. More rarely, but still quite frequently, blue ink... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1877 - 526 pages
...li«e ours, but generally consisted of soot, lamp-blac'.i, burned ivory, pulvcrizeil charcoal, &c. Ked ink of a, dazzling beauty is also found in ancient...written the initial letters, the first lines, and tlie titles, which were thenee called rubric*, and the writer rubricotor. More rarely, but still quite... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 852 pages
...vitriol, like ours, but generally consisted of soot, lamp-black, burned ivory, pulverized charcoal, etc. Red ink of a dazzling beauty is also found in ancient...and the titles, which were thence called rubrics, and the writer rubricator. More rarely, but still quite frequently, blue ink is found in ancient manuscripts... | |
 | Charles Morris - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1917 - 544 pages
...Egyptian (prepared from the real papyrus shrub), sometimes cotton or silk paper (charta bombyctna). The most common ink is the black, which is very old....first lines, and the titles, which were thence called rubric*. Blue, green and yellow inks were more rarely used. On rare occasions gold and silver were... | |
 | Charles Morris - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1921 - 496 pages
...Egyptian (prepared from the real papyrus shrub), sometimes cotton or silk paper (oharta bombycļna). The most common ink is the black, which is very old....external form, manuscripts are divided into rolls {volumina), and into stitched books or volumes (properly códice») . Among the ancients the writers... | |
 | Thomas Edward Finegan - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1922 - 500 pages
...Egyptian (prepared from the real papyrus shrub), sometimes cotton or silk paper (charla bombt/cina). The most common ink is the black, which is very old....first lines, and the titles, which were thence called rubric*. Blue, green and yellow inks were more rarely used. On rare occasions gold and silver were... | |
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More rarely, but still quite frequently, blue ink is found in ancient manuscripts ; yet more rarely green and yellow. Gold and silver were also used for writing either whole manuscripts (which, from their costliness, are great rarities), or for adorning... 