Of this character the press of the Propaganda possessed a fount, of which a specimen was issued in 1636, in which year also Kircher’s _Prodromus Coptus_ {70} appeared at the same press. No fount, however, appeared in England till 1667—the alphabets shown in the Introduction and Prolegomena to the London _Polyglot_ in 1655 and 1657 being cut on wood. In 1667 Dr. Fell presented Coptic matrices[139] to Oxford, and it was from these that the types were cast for David Wilkins’ edition of the _New Testament_, printed in 1716. In 1731 the same scholar published an edition of the _Pentateuch_, this time at the press of Bowyer, in types specially cut by William Caslon.[140] Mores further mentions a Coptic fount cut by Voskens of Amsterdam; and abroad, besides the fount at Rome, there was one (or more) at Paris. A specimen is shown in Fournier; and in 1808, in Quatremère’s work on the Language and Literature of Europe, considerable portions of Scripture in Coptic were included. In our own country the Oxford and Caslon founts were the only two in 1778, when Mores wrote, nor had the number been increased when Hansard compiled his list of foreign founts in 1825. SAMARITAN. Samaritan type appears to have followed closely on the purchase of the celebrated MS. of the Samaritan Pentateuch, which was deposited in the Oratory at Paris in 1623. The press of the Propaganda had a fount in 1636, and the Paris Polyglot, completed in 1645, contained the entire _Pentateuch_ in type of which the punches and matrices had been specially prepared under Le Jay’s direction. The fount used in the London _Polyglot_ in 1657 is admitted to be an English production,[141] and was probably cut under the supervision of Usher, who between 1620 and 1630 was most active in procuring Samaritan MSS. for this country. Samaritan type was used in Scaliger’s _De emendatione temporum_, printed at Geneva in 1629; also in Leusden’s _Schola Syriaca_, at Utrecht, in 1672; besides which, Mores mentions a fount neatly cut by Voskens of Amsterdam. Another fount was included in Dr. Fell’s gift to Oxford in 1667, and this appears in the _Oratio Dominica_ of 1700. The Polyglot Samaritan passed into Grover’s hands, thence to James, at whose sale it was bought, together with another fount of the same character, by Dr. Fry. The Leusdenian fount belonging to Andrews also came to James’s foundry, but was there lost. Caslon had a fount cut by Dummers,[142] which, with those of James and Oxford, were the only founts in the country in 1778.[143] In Hansard’s list of learned founts in 1825, these four founts were still the only Samaritans in the country. {71} SCLAVONIC.