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. * An example of Greek Ligatures from Diophantus Alexandrinus' " Arithmeticorum " - 1621 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 m...