Usual combinations of Minuscule letters
Combinations of letters in later minuscule MSS
Combinations of letters by superposition
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By ligatures are meant combinations of letters made for the sake of writing rather than the meaning of a word or words. For those see the separate Greek Abbreviations file.
Usual combinations of Minuscule letters | Combinations of letters in later minuscule MSS | Combinations of letters by superposition |
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| These ligatures were made according to set rules, which were almost always followed in early minuscule MSS | As uncial letter forms were mixed in with pure minuscule (for instance beta, kappa, pi), ligatures were created using both forms | In some case super-positioning (placing one letter above another) created yet more new forms. |
| Source: Bernhard Abraham van Groningen, Short Manual of Greek Palaeography, (Leiden: 1940) | ||