On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:09:22AM -0700, John Hudson wrote: > Jonathan Rosenne wrote: > > >People do all kinds of fancy things. I guess old manuscripts contain many > >ligatures... > > Not in Hebrew. The only common ligature is the aleph_lamed, a > post-classical import from Judaeo-Arabic. > > JH
Not true. See: Collete Sirat. Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press 2002, fig. 114 (p. 176) or fig. 127 (p. 189) or fig. 134 (p. 193). -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
