Re: identifying greek characters in an old book

From: Morgan Wahl (morgy.wahl@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 18:55:00 CST

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    That's funny; one of the contractions I could identify (attached
    kai.png) I though was the kai symbol (mostly since there's a codepoint
    for it, so I've got several glyphs to go by), so I didn't ask about
    it. But are you saying this tau-c looking glyph is another symbol for
    kai? or are they two different kais (like, two meanings or two tones)?

    On 10/16/05, Raymond Mercier <rm459@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
    >
    >
    > Suzanne,
    > You need not retract what you said initially about the contraction for kai
    > (attached here). This one is well known, and will be found for example in
    > various texts reproduced in Ruth Barbour's Greek Literary Hands, such as
    > text 108 lines 4, 5, 6. There is no shortage of tachygraphic abbreviations
    > that do not look a bit like the explicit Greek.
    > Raymond Mercier
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: suzanne mccarthy
    > To: unicode@unicode.org
    > Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 7:05 PM
    > Subject: Re: identifying greek characters in an old book
    >
    >
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > The Greek is the Lord's Prayer, Matthew 6:10 - 14
    >
    > The odd ligature in line 3 and line 5 must be και 'and' although it doesn't
    > have any similarity.
    >
    > The last two words are τους αιωνας
    >
    > Suzanne McCarthy
    >
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