[126] See specimens Nos. 34 and 35, post.
[127] See specimen No. 47, post.
[128] The English were in negotiation for the founts when Vitré received his orders to purchase.
[129] 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.
[130] See specimen No 37, post.
[131] See specimen No. 61, post.
[132] Parr’s Life and Letters of Usher. London, 1686, fol., p. 488.
[133] See specimen No. 38, post.
[134] See specimen No. 41, post.
[135] See specimen No. 63, post.