Re: OT: Excerpt from _The Lost Gutenberg_
John Isles <[email protected]>
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(Apologies. I was trying to reply to something else!) ————————————————————————————————————— John Isles Hanover, Michigan On 3/22/19, 4:22 PM, "Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group on behalf of John Isles" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: Yes. ————————————————————————————————————— John Isles Hanover, Michigan On 3/22/19, 4:15 PM, "Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group on behalf of Ralph Hancock" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: The article states that the first initial capital in the Gutenberg Bible is an F, which seemed surprising as you would expect an I for _In principio_. But this is indeed the case, as the work begins with a letter from St Jerome to St Ambrosius, beginning _Frater Ambrosius_. See https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutenbergdigital.de%2Fgudi%2Feframes%2F&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7Cdec0ba96a71347534bb608d6af08640e%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636888847903903268&sdata=LR62jCB2zg1iU29pKfOzyos8IL7sRYQO5Jx7xmBxbjA%3D&reserved=0 RH