Hey back, I thought you already had my E-mail.Hey Larry,What text is that? Got a link?Notice above "God" isn't abbreviated but man is.
That is probably something Secret is looking at WRT his personal research into who the copyist of the Letter to Theodore could have been. He's been looking at 18th century handwriting in documents of various types to see if one writer (he's sticking to relatively well known ones, where samples of handwriting of Greek mss are photographed and published online) in Greek Orthodox circles of that period has enough common characteristics to the writer of To Theodore to make a tentative identification. I'll let him tell you where he found the image and which writer this writing sample represents.
The "anos" thing is probably a joke, since I think the ligature he present's could be to any 2-3 letter group that 18th century scribes tended to write as a ligature. Sometimes these can be so elaborate that I would think it would have been easier to just write the individual letters, but stylish flourishes were the norm then ...
There is a guide put together by an individual bible scholar, David Robert Palmer, who has a free guide on ligatures available, Quick-Reference Greek Ligature Guide, available here:
https://bibletranslation.ws/palmer-translation/
Specifically
https://bibletranslation.ws/down/ligatures.pdf
This one has many of the ligatures for which there are Unicode versions in certain fonts available in a handy table, but a lot of it are in form of image-only scans of some old, and non-digitized, sources.
Another one I managed to download is Greek ligatures in early modern printing / Griekse ligaturen in de vroeg-moderne boeken, by Leo Nellissen (januari 2013, www.stilus.nl) which summarizes several sources:https://ia601509.us.archive.org/9/items ... aturen.pdfAn Index of Greek Ligatures and Contractions, William Wallace, 1923 3
The Ligatures of Early Printed Greek, William H.Ingram, 1966 16
Alphabetum Graecum, Parisiis 1532, Christianus Wechelus 37
Aphabetum Graecum, Lugdunum 1544, Sebastianus Gryphius 76
Alphabetum Graecum, Dionysius Halicarnassu, Menses Graecorum 95
Parisiis 1550, Guil. Morelius
Alphabtum Graecum, Lutetiae 1550, Robertus Stephanus 155
Aphabetum Graecum, Theodorus Beza, 1554, Robertus Stephanus 221
Aphabetum Graecum, Antverpiae 1566, Christophorus Plantinus 293
Alphabeum Graecum, Romae 1771 325
If you want to contact me by PM & provide your "real" e-mail address, I could forward them to you. They will be a bit over 20 Mb total.
DCH
Statistics: Posted by lclapshaw — Thu Jan 04, 2024 2:37 am