Note 129 — Chapter II · TYPE FACES (CONTINUED). THE LEARNED, FOREIGN, AND PECULIAR CHARACTERS.
Reading edition
See Calendar State Papers, 1637–8, p. 245. Raphlengius died in 1597. Among Laud’s MSS. at the Bodleian is a printed work by Bedwell, entitled The Arabian Trudgman, London, 1615, 4to, but no Arabic type is used in it. An attempt to buy the Oriental matrices of Erpenius for Cambridge, in 1626, was forestalled by the Elzevirs, who secured them for their own press.