Can you read ligatures?
Posted: September 8th, 2014, 1:53 pm
A friend of mine, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, is working on a text that includes Greek with ligatures. I'm not at all used to reading ligatures, so words like the following are very difficult for me to decipher:

I helped him transliterate some texts, then he managed to find a font for Renaissance Greek by Vernon Eugene Kooy with a chart explaining the ligatures. He used that to tentatively transliterate some other words.
Is anyone here good at reading Greek with ligatures? Can you identify the text for the words that we were unable to transliterate, and correct the words that are wrong here?
Here's his current transliteration.

I helped him transliterate some texts, then he managed to find a font for Renaissance Greek by Vernon Eugene Kooy with a chart explaining the ligatures. He used that to tentatively transliterate some other words.
Is anyone here good at reading Greek with ligatures? Can you identify the text for the words that we were unable to transliterate, and correct the words that are wrong here?
Here's his current transliteration.