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Runiform Ligatures in 10th Century Greek Manuscript

      In 1628, Sir William Roe, British ambassador to the Ottoman court, donated to Bodleian Library 10 th  century Greek manuscript Roe 27, which contains Homilies on Genesis by John Chrysostom. There is a short description of the manuscript in H. Coxe’s catalogue, which was accidentally switched with the previous Roe 26 manuscript ( Coxe, H. 1853) . Slavic notes in Roe 27 were mentioned by Hutter in 1982 ( Hutter I, 1977) . Six years later, Ralf Cleminson published 27 of them. He dated the notes to the 13 -14 century ( Cleminson, R. 1988) . In 2005, A. Granberg published a complete list of the Cyrillic Inscriptions and pictures of some of the ligatures ( Granberg, A. 2005a) . The same year, in a study on runiform scripts from the Balkans, she defined them as runiform inscriptions ( Granberg A. 2005b) . In 2014 thanks to the help of G. Georgieva from the University of Veliko Tarnovo and Bodleian Library, the author had a chance to examine Roe 27 and take pictures of...