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Budlet | 22:00 Thu 22nd Jun 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Can anyone tell me what the name of the highly coloured and beautifully drawn first letter of a manuscript is.
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shammydodger

The practice is known as ornamentation. So, ornament?

curryman

could be illumination.

Jules001

I've always known them as illuminated letters

Budlet

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thanks for the answers folks

oxcomper

They are all illuminated letters, I agree, but first in the volumes has a special name and i think it is Initial.

Quizmonster

It is, as Oxcomper suggests above, called an 'initial'. Here's what The Oxford English Dictionary says as regards this particular meaning of the noun 'initial'...
"In old manuscripts, frequently, and in modern publishing, occasionally, the initial letters at the heads of paragraphs or sections made large and more or less ornamental."

oxcomper

Thank goodness i got it right, working as I do in a Library with many illuminated manuscripts it would have been embarrasing to say the least if anyone who knows me saw a wrong answer!

Budlet

Question Author

Many thanks to you all.

bricro

Just possibly VERSAL

NILYA

Could this be rubric?

bricro

I still think VERSAL see Chambers

Quizmonster

I don't think anyone is disputing the correctness of 'versal', Bricro. The thing is that Chambers is not nearly as extensive as The Oxford English Dictionary and it points out that 'initial' is correct, too. A good case might also be made for Nilya's 'rubric', which specifically refers to a red-coloured opening letter but one which may be (quote) "otherwise distinguished". All three are just fine!

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