A Resource for Greek Ligatures
Resources for Greek Ligatures
In a video that I will soon be making, I will discuss "Greek Ligatures." Greek Ligatures were a style of printing Greek in the early modern period.
Greek ligatures are a typographical convention that make appearances across various literary works in the early modern period, particularly in theological texts. Personally, I encountered them in Amandus Polanus' "Syntagma" which initially left me at a loss, I had no idea how to read these Greek forms.
However, with persistence, I found ligature charts and other resources that helped me read this kind of Greek. In compiling these resources, my aim is to equip others for a more informed study of authors spanning the 15th to 18th centuries, who frequently employ Greek ligatures in their writings.
Here, you can see the hour-long video I made where I introduce this topic, and (to my knowledge) there's nothing quite like this online from what I can tell.
RESOURCES:
A link to a page with multiple charts (difficult to read at once, but very resourceful) - here
A PDF of Greek Ligatures - here
A 1554 Greek Alphabet (less helpful) - here
A 1556 Greek Alphabet (helpful) - here
A 1561 Greek Alphabet (contains exercises near the end) - here
A 1585 Greek Alphabet (Peter Ramus - search appendix) - here
A 1556 Greek Alphabet (helpful) - here
A 1745 Deutsch Greek Grammar (helpful) - here
A 1966 Article noting these (helpful) - here
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