Hi Geoffrey,
for what is worth, the last two letters seem to me Tav-Kof (right to left) from the Greek 1375 column (first and fourth from the bottom).
It seems to me that you are taking as hopeless an approach to the subject as possible: a blurred photograph of an unknown text in a language you only have a very superficial idea about and a script you only know through a table you just downloaded from the internet.
As I see it, one should start with a solid knowledge of the Greek language: being able to fluently translate early modern Greek. This seems like a necessary prerequisite.
Yevanic has been studied by scholars: reinventing such a huge and complex wheel is something that cannot be done in a lifetime. I just had a look at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. by Julia G. Krivoruchko (2014), which was referenced in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. by David M. Bunis and James T. Robinson. From this paper, it seems that phase two (after fluency in early modern Greek) would be addressing the Constantinopolitan Pentateuch (1547) with the help of Hesseling's Greek transcription.
One could then address Hebrew palaeography and learn how to read Hebrew scripts (this will inevitably involve at least a superficial study of the Hebrew language).
Once one is familiar with printed Yevanic (i.e. the CP) and Hebrew scripts, it should be possible to approach Yevanic manuscripts with some hope of success.
The page presenting the grimoire says that "an edition of a manuscript and a dictionary of Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords in Modern Judeo-Greek by J. Krivoruchko are now in preparation." If that work is now available, it could make the whole process easier.
for what is worth, the last two letters seem to me Tav-Kof (right to left) from the Greek 1375 column (first and fourth from the bottom).
It seems to me that you are taking as hopeless an approach to the subject as possible: a blurred photograph of an unknown text in a language you only have a very superficial idea about and a script you only know through a table you just downloaded from the internet.
As I see it, one should start with a solid knowledge of the Greek language: being able to fluently translate early modern Greek. This seems like a necessary prerequisite.
Yevanic has been studied by scholars: reinventing such a huge and complex wheel is something that cannot be done in a lifetime. I just had a look at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. by Julia G. Krivoruchko (2014), which was referenced in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. by David M. Bunis and James T. Robinson. From this paper, it seems that phase two (after fluency in early modern Greek) would be addressing the Constantinopolitan Pentateuch (1547) with the help of Hesseling's Greek transcription.
One could then address Hebrew palaeography and learn how to read Hebrew scripts (this will inevitably involve at least a superficial study of the Hebrew language).
Once one is familiar with printed Yevanic (i.e. the CP) and Hebrew scripts, it should be possible to approach Yevanic manuscripts with some hope of success.
The page presenting the grimoire says that "an edition of a manuscript and a dictionary of Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords in Modern Judeo-Greek by J. Krivoruchko are now in preparation." If that work is now available, it could make the whole process easier.
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