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Rubrication
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<p>Rubrication is the addition of text in red <a href="/facts/Ink/Y7Wj0YQS">ink</a> to a manuscript for emphasis. Practitioners of rubrication, so-called <i>rubricators</i> or <i>rubrishers</i>, were specialized <a href="/facts/Scribe/E6Kq8CJG">scribes</a> who received text from the original scribe. Rubrication was one of several steps in the <a href="/facts/Medieval/RqzEKB9v">medieval</a> process of <a href="/facts/Manuscript/A6XNmrTd">manuscript</a> making. The term comes from the <a href="/facts/Latin_language/pM3Kge85">Latin</a> <i>rubrīcāre</i>, "to color red", the base word being <i>ruber</i>, "red". The practice began in <a href="/facts/Ancient_Egypt/BDsEGK4g"> pharaonic Egypt</a> with scribes emphasizing important text, such as headings, new parts of a narrative, etc., on papyri with red ink. </p>