R. Perkins wrote: ↑December 26th, 2018, 2:25 amThanks. However, I try to read the Greek NT daily (NA28 & UBS-5) and have no problem speed reading the minuscule type set.
The modern Greek script used in the NA and UBS GNT's is set to be easily read after-all. We also benefit from the Greek letters not being in joined-up handwriting.
Be willing to bet you could read this post of mine easier on your computer than if I hand wrote it (my hand-writing is somewhat terrible)
I erroneously thought I could do the same w. a handwritten corpus. I could make out some words, but it was very difficult to make out some of the letters and to tell where one word was ending and another beginning.
What initially confused me was the nomen-sacrum for David (δα̅δ - fourth line down on the left), which after looking mainly at Uncial manuscripts which have the over-bar going over all the letters in the nomen-sacrum (or in several cases, going somewhat over the prior and following letters!), made me wonder exactly where in the GNT this was. Thankfully there are few places in the GNT where the word παρθένος is repeated so close together.
I realize I still have a lot to learn, but reading the Greek text has always been relatively easy in software. For ex., recently my wife and I were reading through P46 (Colossians) w. no problem at all.
You reading it from a transcription of the manuscript, or from images of it? P46 was also written by a professional scribe, as per every discussion on it.
It is rather easy to read though

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http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/ ... 610/50/386
Not quite sure on the professnionalism of the scribe of the manuscript in question. They seem to have had an issue with the word παρθένος, correcting themselves in both places that we see παρθένον/παρθένου. That is unless this is how later minuscule manuscripts wrote out the word (see prior comment regarding dealing mainly with uncial manuscripts).
Not that errors = unprofessional scribe. P46 makes its fair number of mistakes!