rubrica

Updated: June 11, 2025

In Mexico the art of branding dates back to the time when few men were lettered and most men used a rubrica mark or flourish instead of a written signature. Thus, in Mexico the brand is always a device, whatever complex combination of lines and circles the whim of the owner may conceive.

Edgar Beecher Bronson - The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier

"There is likewise an herb called 'rubrica, the root of which is long, slender, and of a red colour; this being dug up is dried in the sun and is pounded in a mortar with the pestle, and so being scraped into a pot, and a lye poured over it, is then cooked. In this, when it has well boiled, the bone of the elephant or fish or stag, being placed, is made red."

Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison - Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages: A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance

The Supreme Military Council is hereby informed thereof, and will cause this decree to be executed. Palace of Rio Janeiro, the 23rd of February, 1824. Third of the Independence of the Empire, with the Rubrica of His Imperial Majesty. Secretariat of State, 27th February, 1824. Acting Chief Secretary.

Earl of Thomas Cochrane Dundonald - Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil,: from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2