Dix — The Earliest Printing in Duhlin. 155 



The earliest printing in Syriac at Oxford (ride Madan's "Chart of 

 Oxford Printing," 1904) was in 1661, and at London in 1652. {Vide T. B. 

 Eeed, p. 68). 



Moreover, TheGofpel, according to Cuflom, and with re- 

 gard to the accomplifhment of things, produceth an Allega- 

 tion ; for Ifaiah faith, Jbere Jhall come forth a Rod from the Root 

 of Jefs^ and a Bough fhallfprout forth : And in the Hebrew a 

 Branch or Bough is expounded a Branch, and Nazaren one who 

 fpreuts out ; and whenMathew faw that Chrift came and dwelt 

 in Nazareth, he expounded this of Efaiah , A Branch fhal/ 

 fproutout. He fhallhecaileda Nazaren i and he Mas cailed a 

 //j.:j/-f« from Nazareth, that is, ^l,^j QJ- one fprouting ottt, 

 ffom ^Ad^cJ a Sprout; fo they arc expounded in the He- 

 brew Tongue: Others fay that _^J-/ which is 2-j4a/ 

 is expounded Nriv,ind that Nazareth fignifieth New, and figni- 

 fics Typically that the Son would newly be made Man for 

 Men : Others fay, That Nazareth fignifies Ju/fice, and Naza- 

 ren fignifies Juft ; andif they fliall fay, that becaufe he was 

 born in Bethlehem, and not in Nazareth, Efaiah calls him 

 ^^O/^ let them know that the Apoflles called him as did 

 the Propliets, and that this of Bethlehem was not hid as to the 

 Prophecy, but chiefly intended, according to that of Natha- 

 niel, 



Fig. a. 



Armenian (Old). 



In the " Logica," etc., occurs, in the margin on p. 49 of the text, one word 

 in Armenian type. There are also some Armenian words in the margin 

 of p. 91. The earliest acquisition of this type in Oxford was in 1667. 



Aeajjic. 



In Usher's " Answer to a Challenge," etc. (1624), occur, on p. 297, two 

 words in Ai'abic type, in the text ; and at p. 313 occur thi'ce words in the 

 same type in the marginal note, and one in the text, and at p. 324 one word 

 in the text — seven words in all. Each word seems one type or block. 

 ( Vide fig. 5.) Where this type was obtained from I do not know. Perhaps 

 the words were specially cut in wood blocks. This was done in similar 

 cases in England. The earliest use of Arabic type in Oxford was not till 



