In England the first Armenian types were those presented by Dr. Fell to {69} Oxford in 1667. In the Prolegomena of Walton’s _Polyglot_, the alphabet there given had been cut in wood. In 1736 Caslon cut a neat Armenian[135] for Whiston’s edition of _Moses Chorenensis_, and these two were the only founts in England before 1820. ETHIOPIC. The earliest type of this language appeared in Potken’s _Psalter and Song of Solomon_, printed at Rome in 1513. The work was reprinted at Cologne in 1518, in Potken’s polyglot _Psalter_. In 1548 the _New Testament_ was printed at Rome by some Abyssinian priests. The press of the Propaganda issued a specimen of its fount in 1631, and again in Kircher’s _Prodromus Coptus_ in 1636. Erpenius at Leyden had an Ethiopic fount, which in 1626 was acquired by the Elzevirs. Usher attempted to procure the fount for this country, but his attempt failing, punches were cut, and matrices prepared by the London founders for the _London Polyglot_, which showed the Psalms, Canticles, and New Testament in the Ethiopic version. Various portions of Scripture were printed at Leyden and Frankfort about the same time, of which the most important work was the _Psalter_, etc., of Ludolfus, printed at the latter place in 1701, in a letter bolder and larger than either the Vatican or London fount. The Oxford press possessed a fount of Ethiopic[136] prior to 1693, which appears, with the other Oxford Orientals, in the _Oratio Dominica_ of 1700 and 1713—the Amharic being in the same character. Chamberlayne’s _Oratio Dominica_, printed at Amsterdam in 1715, shows these versions in copperplate. Mores mentions a second English fount in his list of the matrices of the “Anonymous” foundry, besides the fount cut by Caslon[137] for his foundry. There were thus four founts in England in 1778. The Polyglot fount[138] and that of the anonymous founder came into the possession of James, and at the sale of his matrices in 1782, were acquired by Dr. Fry. The reprint of Ludolfus’ _Psalter_ by the Bible Society in 1815 was in the latter type. But the Ethiopic _Gospels_ printed by the same society in 1826 were in a fount of types cast from the matrices presented by Ludolfus to the Frankfort Library in 1700. No new fount of Ethiopic in England had been added to the four already named, when Hansard wrote in 1825. COPTIC.