Re: Polytonic Greek very OT

suzmccarth wrote:

> Have a look at this for some fun! Have you ever seen 'kai' written
> like that? (towards the end of line 3 and line 5?)
>
> http://fromoldbooks.org/oratiodominica/pages/orationis-p05-texture/

There was no photolithography in those days, so the only way to publish
a faithful reproduction of a manuscript was to cut hundreds of sorts
imitating the ligatures. (Cf. the Gutenberg Bible.)
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...