Peter T. Daniels skribis:

>
> 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.)

Yes, medieval manuscript copying of Greek books had
developed quite a cursive script with lots of ligatures.
Early printers in Italy and France made printing types to
try to recreate this kind of script. A good book on this
subject with lots of illustrations is *Greek Letters: From
Tablets to Pixels* edited by Michael Macrakis, 1996, Oak
Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware. ISBN 1-884718-27-2

--Ph. D.