Syriac type, probably cut in wood, first appeared in Postel’s _Linguarum xii Alphabeta_, printed in Paris in 1538; but the characters are so rude in form and execution as to be scarcely legible. In 1555, however, Postel assisted in cutting the punches for the famous Syriac Peshito _New Testament_, printed at Vienna, in two vols. 4to, the first portion of the Scriptures, and apparently the first book printed in that language. In 1569–72 Plantin at Antwerp included the Syriac New Testament in his _Polyglot_, and reissued it in separate form in 1574. The Vatican press had a good fount in 1591, which appears in Roccha’s _Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana_. Mores mentions a _Nomenclature_ by Ferrarius at Rome in 1622 with Syriac type. In 1636 the press of the Propaganda issued a specimen of the Estranghelo and Syriac alphabets, and in the same year Kircher’s _Prodromus Coptus_, published at the same press, contained passages in both these characters, and in Heraclean. A Syriac _Testament_ was printed at Cothon, in Upper Saxony, in 1621, and at Hamburg in 1663; and later, Gutbier printed the same work in several editions. In France, after the disappearance of Postel’s types, there was no Syriac printing for nearly a century. Henri Estienne printed his Syriac _New Testament_ in 1539, in Hebrew characters; and in Cajetan’s _Paradigmata de iv lingis_, which appeared in 1596, the Syriac character was cut on wood, and longer passages expressed in Hebrew type. In 1614 Savary de Brèves brought Syriac matrices along with those of other Oriental characters to Paris, and these were made use of by Vitré, in 1625, to print a _Syriac and Latin Psalter_, and appeared subsequently in the great _Polyglot_ of Le Jay.