Note 494 — Chapter XI · WILLIAM CASLON, 1720.

Mores calls this “excavated” or “Hutter’s leading-string” Hebrew. A specimen may be seen in The Scholars Instructor. An Hebrew Grammar of Israel Lyons, Cambridge, 1735, 8vo. The open Hebrew is here used to distinguish the servile from the radical letters. Lyons in his preface deprecates Hutter’s method of printing the entire Bible in this character, thereby keeping the learners “too long in leading-strings” (see also ante, p. 63).