Black below). Such a page is, as it were, an “illumina-

& Red tion” to all the pages, following it in black text.

Title Pages came into fashion after printing was
introduced. Early MSS. commonly began with the
opening words written in large, decorated capitals,
the title sometimes being written quite small, near
the top of the page: other details were commonly
put in the colophon in early books (see p. 108).

When the title is more important, in a literary
sense, than the opening sentence, it may be well to
follow the modern fashion. But when there is a
finely worded opening sentence—perhaps the key¬
note to the rest of the text—while the title is merely
for reference, it seems reasonable to magnify and
illuminate the actual beginning of the book rather
than the mere name of it (see p. 329).

Note (i). — In fig. 89 the title — (JESU
CHRISTI) Evangelium Secundum Joannem— is
written in as a decoration of the initial word; the
old form “ÍHV ШЧ” is used for “Jesu Christi”
(these letters, it will be noticed, are here employed
to lighten the large capitals, see p. 174).

(2) Where IN is an initial word, to enforce
narrow initial I, both letters may be magnified.

(3) The scale of the lettering corresponds with
that of the ruled lines (these do not show in the
figure) : the letters and the interlinear spaces are each
one line high; the initial word is four lines high.
Such a mode of spacing is very simple and effective,
and will save the rubricator much unnecessary
trouble and fruitless planning (see footnote, p. 187).

(4) Other Colour Schemes.—All Burnished Gold
(or with Title in red)-, or IN gold, with smaller
capitals Red (or in Blue and Red lines alternately—or
Blue, Red, Green, Red: see p. 147)-

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Black
& Red

PRIN¬
CIPIO

6 RAT"'
Verb им

Fig. 89.

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