154 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Syriac (Old). 



lu Usher's "Answer to a Challenge," etc. (1624), occurs, at p. 289, one 

 word in Syriac character, that for " SheoL" ( Vide fig. 3.) 



made by & lejuite in IreU} J. 2 S p 



crcd antl the fotraiiic writer;;, aic accordingly found to 

 take the word in thcfc three fcvcrall (jgmtications. 



Touching the firll wc are to note, that both dicSup. 

 /«,:.7/>;.' in ilic Old Tcllament, and the yJ^p^r/^jin the 

 • Nc\v,doe u(c ilic Gicckc word 'A J\hf Hadc $ ^and i -Aii.t.-y. 

 anfwctably thereunto the Latin Intcrpicccrs the word '•^"•'5 •«• 

 //.y?/;.' ..V or ////->/, and ihc Enghfli the word He//) [ox 

 tlia: which intl:e Hebrew text js named ^'^•.;'SH to i, : 

 on the other fide, where m'thc Now Tcflameot the 

 word Ka D £ s isufcd.thcre the ancient Syriack rranfla- 

 tocdoth put ^I'ojh^. Si.ey.t/ \n flecd thereof. Now rhe 

 Hcbiew 56fi)/(and fo the C/ja/Jj,S)7iacL-3nd i^fBif/70. 

 p.au words which drawtheic ongina!! from thence) 

 doth properly denote the interior pares of the earth, 

 rh.ii Ivc liidden from our fi^hc ; namely whatfocver 



Fio. 3. 



In " Logica, seu Introductio in totem Aristotelis Philosophiam," etc., by 

 DiuUey Loftus, there arc some words in Syriac type on p. 3 of the 

 " Epistola Dcdicatoria." This Ixiok was printed in Dublin in 1657 by 

 William Bladen. 



In a volume entitled " A Clear and Learned Explication of the History 

 of Our Blessed Sa\'iour," by D. Syrus, translated by Dudley Loftus, are to 

 1x5 found some words in Syriac type, at pp. 7, 9, 15, 16, 21, 32, 45, and 79. 

 This work was printed in Dublin in 1695. ( Vifle fig. 4.) 



In 1637 Usher mentions in a letter a project to purchase Syriac type 

 abroad; and negotiations, both in Paris and Geneva, appear to have been 

 conducted Nvith the object of obtaining such. ( Vide T. B. Eeed, pp. 67, 68, 

 quoting from Parr's " Life and Letters of Usher," London, 1681, fol., p. 486.) 



