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I was wondering if someone could help me decipher an unfamiliar font from an A.D. 1611 Photius manuscript. The sentence captioned below is from Photius' Library. It's the section reporting Aenesidemus' views on the differences between Pyrrhonian and Academic scepticism.
The words that I understand from the highlighted section are και and πολλων δογματιζουσιν. The rest is difficult for me to read. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Ken M. Penner
Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, St. Francis Xavier University
Editor, Digital Biblical Studies
General Editor, Lexham English Septuagint
Co-Editor, Online Critical Pseudepigrapha pseudepigrapha.org
I would like to get better at reading various historical Greek scripts. Are there resources that provide transcriptions along with images for various periods?
Jonathan Robie wrote: ↑August 16th, 2018, 7:47 amAre there resources that provide transcriptions along with images for various periods?
The link I added to my original reply has over a dozen such examples, ranging from the eighth to fifteenth century, but the resolution is not always good. For reference, it is http://bibletranslation.ws/down/ligatures.pdf
Ken M. Penner
Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, St. Francis Xavier University
Editor, Digital Biblical Studies
General Editor, Lexham English Septuagint
Co-Editor, Online Critical Pseudepigrapha pseudepigrapha.org
Jonathan Robie wrote: ↑August 16th, 2018, 7:47 amAre there resources that provide transcriptions along with images for various periods?
The link I added to my original reply has over a dozen such examples, ranging from the eighth to fifteenth century, but the resolution is not always good. For reference, it is http://bibletranslation.ws/down/ligatures.pdf
Cool - If anyone knows more resources along these lines, perhaps with better images, I'd love to see them. Every once in a while I try to read a medieval manuscript and I just can't.
This index is somewhat helpful (but transcriptions are really useful for practice, and it doesn't have them):
Jonathan Robie wrote: ↑August 16th, 2018, 8:33 amIf anyone knows more resources along these lines, perhaps with better images, I'd love to see them. Every once in a while I try to read a medieval manuscript and I just can't.
Ken M. Penner
Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, St. Francis Xavier University
Editor, Digital Biblical Studies
General Editor, Lexham English Septuagint
Co-Editor, Online Critical Pseudepigrapha pseudepigrapha.org
While we're talking about paleography: If you want to develop and practice your deciphering skills, why not contribute to a New Testament project that still has its call for volunteer contributors up at http://cal-itsee.bham.ac.uk/itseeweb/ig ... ibute.html
It even has tutorials.
Ken M. Penner
Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, St. Francis Xavier University
Editor, Digital Biblical Studies
General Editor, Lexham English Septuagint
Co-Editor, Online Critical Pseudepigrapha pseudepigrapha.org
After spending a lot of the past year on looking at medieval manuscripts, the light bulb moment for me was think more about the inputs--how the pen moves across the parchment--instead of the output, as in the final shape of the letters.