Pappus 1660

Pappus Alexandrinus (1660), Mathematicae collectiones ​ECHO

Part of WO1. Sent with DESpecs version 1.1.2.

Sent: ok/date. Returned: ok/date/ ​raw text, separate unknown characters list with <001> and <002>: see attachment.

1. First Analysis

Difficulties

• Greek text.

Special Instructions

• None, but we requested a work sample of 50 pages.

2. Questions From Formax

Question 1

Reply 1

A 2008-12-14: Please be so kind as to note the following two points: (1) in general, if you have difficulty recognizing a Greek ligature, it is best just to assign it an unknown character code e.g. <005> and we will identify it later. If you do feel its is necessary to query us about a ligature or other glyph, please be so kind as to send us a complete line of text containing the unknown character.

Final Instructions

3. Analysis of the Result

Findings

<001> occurs six times and seems to be simply a badly printed {ou}, as in "ἠγ<001>μέν{ου}" (where, by the way, they got the breathing wrong because it is already wrong in the original.)

<002> is not clear to me. It occurs twice, once in "Græcus codex habet. δ{ει} γαρ & c. <002> τῆς ζη {πρ}ὸς η δ ego legendum puto {τὸν} τῆς δ η {πρ}ὸς η κ". The second time it doesn't look like the first <002>, but is optically as well as contextually clearly recognizeable as {tais}: "ἐν <002> συζυγῖαις".

Recommendation

The quality in the work sample seems to be inferior to the quality in the remaining text. Accept it or ask them to re-do the Greek text in the first 50 pages? (We had decided against any comments and to give our ok after looking at the work sample.)

4. Post-Processing