Re: RTL PUA?

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:09:22AM -0700, John Hudson wrote:
> Jonathan Rosenne wrote:
>
> >People do all kinds of fancy things. I guess old manuscripts contain many
> >ligatures...
>
> Not in Hebrew. The only common ligature is the aleph_lamed, a
> post-classical import from Judaeo-Arabic.
>
> JH

Not true. See:

Collete Sirat. Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press 2002,
fig. 114 (p. 176) or fig. 127 (p. 189) or fig. 134 (p. 193).

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