Christian Texts and History • Re: Facebook group dedicated to old Greek handwriting

Since you're interested in this stuff, Randy... in Smith and Landau, p. 112, they cite Dr. Panagiotis Agapitos, who referred to the "fluid, cursive style of private hands" and clarified that it is not the kind of writing seen in the setting of professional copying of manuscripts by hand. Dr. Agapitos pointed to a couple 18th century marginal notes as examples, such as this one from Venetia Chatzpoulou, ΚΑΤΑΛΟΓΟΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΩΝ ΧΕΙΡΟΓΡΑΦΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟΥ ΜΠΕΝΑΚΗ (16ος-20ὸς αἰώνας), plate 25.
A difficult aspect of the topic is its obscurity even among paleographers. Scholarly interest often concludes with Byzantine (down to 16th century) rather than Ottoman era (17th / 18th / 19th century) paleography. And in any era the focus is usually not on the paleography of informal handwriting.

I'm sure I've unwittingly stumbled on 2 or 3 more proofs of forgery in what I just wrote.

Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Thu May 02, 2024 9:28 pm

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