[B-Greek] strange looking pi?

Nick Nicholas nickn at unimelb.edu.au
Tue Sep 26 06:52:30 EDT 2006


Oops, message got mangled:

On 26/09/2006, at 8:42 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> Forwarded for: Nick Nicholas <opoudjis at optushome.com.au>
> Date: September 25, 2006 10:03:19 PM EDT
>

> Jim Darlack's scan looks 18th century, and I admit, it does seem  
> random: (using P1 for cursive pi) P1EPOIQW/S vs. PE/POIQEN, I  
> suspect the cursive in PT- and PR- are holdovers from earlier  
> ligated forms. Bear in mind that the 18th century, when the old  
> ligatures were abandoned, was a huge shift in the typography of  
> Greek; even if there were rules before on the use of cursive pi  
> before (and I doubt it), there would have been confusion introduced  
> by the new breaking up of letters. And *pace* Fr Silver's response,  
> it wasn't Greeks deciding how to break the letters up --- the  
> innovation happened in

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