Re: Cyrillic

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Isaac Penzev scripsit:
>
> > Wow! The same thing happens in Jewish prayerbooks in Hebrew! But I've
> > never seen this feature in OChS, though I've got an OChS Bible at home!
>
> I think this is a Europe-wide feature of printing in those days, to assist
> in collating pages by hand.  I have seen it in facsimiles of English books
> of the 18th century and earlier.
I gather that it's a truly old tradition indeed.  In my Greco-Latin
Bible from 1550, each column of text, both Greek and Latin, carries
the word or part of word that starts on the respective column on the
next page.

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