Greek letters: from tablets to pixels.

From: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada | Date: September 22, 1997 | Copyright information

The difficulties of designing Greek type and of printing in Greek have concerned printers since the fifteenth century, and the fact that the invention of printing with movable type coincided so closely in time with the fall of Constantinople and the emigration to Italy and elsewhere in western Europe of so many Greek scholars and teachers put the publication of Greek words very much at the centre of the Renaissance revival of classical learning and literature. Although we tend to associate early books in Greek with Aldus Manutius and the 1490s, the first book printed entirely in ...

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