Note 241 — Chapter VI · THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDRY.

Anecdotes, i, 119. Elsewhere (v, 111) Beloe asserts that the type thus used was the Greek of Sir Henry Savile. Although the same size, and in many points closely resembling this letter, it differs from it materially in other respects. This may possibly be accounted for on the supposition that some of the Savile characters having been lost, they had been replaced either by new matrices, or by the addition of letters from some other fount. Buck discarded many of the cumbrous abbreviations used in the Chrysostom, greatly to the advantage of his text (see 4th Report Historical MSS. Commission, p. 464).