Abstract
On the basis of Georgian codices from the collection of the Iviron Monastery on Mt Athos, the article examines a special purpose of using red ink in medieval manuscripts, namely, to provide information concerning the manuscript in question and the people involved in its production (scribes, authors, translators, or commissioners) by scattering sequences of individual letters over one or two pages. After discussing authentic accounts of the use of rubrics in the Georgian manuscript production of the eleventh century, the shape and scope of ‘hidden colophons’ is illustrated by reference to four codices of the monastery (Ivir. georg. 4, 9, 16, and 61).
