152 Proceedings of the Roijal Irish Academy. 



In Usher's " Gott€schalche efc Praedestinatione Controversiae," &c., 

 printed in 1631, occur, at page 207, four lines and two words in Greek 

 type, also of pica Greek, with a different face, and mixed with a type of 

 a different fount. 



I have not met, so far, any work entirely printed in Greek in the 

 seventeenth century in Dublin. 



Greek type was first used at Oxford in 1586. 



Hebrew. 



As regards printing in Hebrew, iuvoh-ing also a totally different 

 alphabet and special type, the earliest use of Hebrew letter in printing at 

 Dublin occurs in the volume already referred to, i.e., Usher's " Answer to a 



3). I ii'i!:gO!(iorvnei»toShi,oL unicmj jonnetr 



I oj-.TD n.n ps| writcththus, ^ Here the TraK(latorof thccni. 



cr.:i.jVNv (he mcanctluhc Vulgar Latin trai.lhtion uf 



for hel.cld, ticfigrifcaiicfi pfthenordts^:r or 

 forproofc whcreoi hcallcdgcth Jivcrs place 

 lurc. Where by thcivay yr-ii m;<y notc.ihat 

 edition of rhcMaforiticall and Rabbinical! B 

 ted by Bor7:'jerg:u\ both this ai:d diverfcorhc 

 clfcvviicrchavc bccnccut out by the Rcn:i 

 £lors: which I wifh our Bi:x:o>ji:(s had uik 

 whcnhcfol.'owed that mangled and coirii[ 

 in his larc renewed edition of that "rcac wcrk 



/<7wtf /j;f/;/\\vritiogiiponihc fame words, Gi 

 •"hi-j H-n ^-p faith, that "' according to the !i:erJlf:r]fc, the i, 

 "^'iT'-^^^.i *'"" '^'(^ffis the Crave .- (Ik rt.y n.ov.rt.ir.g 1 1 

 c: jTj s-ii'oi. Tied, And I will no! Lc ccr.forted all my ddycs . ) 

 '"'/•''• '^'- the y.tdrej]' or Alle?ctu.ill h. ten ntaucn, it u 

 In like maner,R.Diii7^A'.';?.f//cxpouni:iiif; d 

 V[i\.f).\j .1 henicked jliditurr.t into l'.d!,a> d. 



Fio. 2. — Hebrew Type in margin. 



Challenge," etc. (1624), in which on fifteen different pages occur, in Hebrew, 

 words, notes, and phrases, both in the text and margin. The type is of one 

 fount and small ( Vide fig. 2.) It also occurs twice in Sibthorp's " Friendly 



