Re: Greek Astrology

2012-11-01 Thread Raymond Mercier
Byzantine authors had a great penchant for ligatures. Although I do not have expertise in Greek astrology, I do have some competence in other aspects of Byzantine literature (including some familiarity with manuscripts and inscriptions). Based on that experience, I feel I can safely say that an

Re: Greek Astrology

2012-11-01 Thread CE Whitehead
From: Kalvesmaki, Joel Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 14:12:35 + > Byzantine authors had a great penchant for ligatures. Although I do not have expertise in Greek astrology, I do have some competence in > other aspects of Byzantine literature (including some familiarity with manuscripts

Re: Rijksmuseum launches Rijksstudio

2012-11-01 Thread Steven Atreju
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: |-On [20121101 11:48], Steven Atreju (snatr...@googlemail.com) wrote: |>Really fantastic. 'Should rework that Flash or what it is since |>i got a halequin statue when i wanted to get a close up of |>Vincent van Gogh.. | |At least

Re: Greek Astrology

2012-11-01 Thread Kalvesmaki, Joel
Byzantine authors had a great penchant for ligatures. Although I do not have expertise in Greek astrology, I do have some competence in other aspects of Byzantine literature (including some familiarity with manuscripts and inscriptions). Based on that experience, I feel I can safely say that any

Re: Rijksmuseum launches Rijksstudio

2012-11-01 Thread Steven Atreju
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: |For those of you that do research for orthographies and the likes based on |historical pieces, the Dutch Rijksmuseum has recently launched their |Rijksstudio. You can search through their entire collection of high |resolution images and create your own cu

Greek astrology

2012-11-01 Thread Raymond Mercier
The first sign (ascendant or horoscope) is common enough I believe, and I attach a small portion of a most valuable (10th century ?) Syriac manuscript (photographed in UV light), a palimpsest, where the inferior text is Greek. There is clearly a list of 'values' for this ascendant (16,15,14...)

Rijksmuseum launches Rijksstudio

2012-11-01 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
For those of you that do research for orthographies and the likes based on historical pieces, the Dutch Rijksmuseum has recently launched their Rijksstudio. You can search through their entire collection of high resolution images and create your own curated collections (which can be shared, et cete

Re: Greek Astrology

2012-11-01 Thread Szelp, A. Sz.
Is there evidence that these have been used consistently, on most charts of the time? These could be ad-hoc notations (as given the contemporary praxis, ligation per se does not make a "symbol"). -- Szelp, André Szabolcs +43 (650) 79 22 400 On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:38 AM, CE Whitehead wrote: