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5" 1467 and in M68 it was carried
. 10 Venice and Paris. Hith5:rto the
‘Proficient in this new art had? pro-
Ceeded no farther than in ‘the com-
mon alphabet, suited to the vulgar,
and ,Latiu ‘tongues. V The Gothic
" ‘lPhabet,‘ as it most resembled the
V manuscripts of those times, was the
5"-‘it attempt; then some of the Italian
Ilnces introduced the Roman alpha-
" ‘ ran NOVEMBER, 1811. .
‘teen in a Latin Grarnnmr, written by '
: 3t.,Padua, on the 14th of January,
< ' ‘lily, has taken the entire scheme of
, “Y regard to the memory of his au-
i H3511... upon the “same principles as
. each of them claiming the reputation
-universally allowed that two Jewish
‘ '3‘ little city in’the, duchy of Milain; in
"10 year 1480. ‘ -
“slilllds in. Asia ‘; to Lima, Mexico,’
bet; andiin a short time, brought it
to that perfection, that-iinthe begin-
ning of the year l,4s74:,'.they casta
lmel‘. not much inferior to the best
PYPCS of the present age; ‘as may he
Omnibonus ‘ Leonicenus, and printed
M74‘; from whom our grammarian
us Grammar, ..and.transcribed the
8"'e3leSt. part thereof, without paying
th0"- .; At last the Italic alphabet
“"18 muchjn vogue ; but there were
00 Greek types,-till about theyear
1476: when the Italian printers cast
lh"Y had done the other-alpliabets ;
YEMV9 are not able to ascertain whe-
ther this was first introduced by..the
Vcnetians, Milanese, or Florentines,
“F tl1'uit;improvement,:. though it is’
abbins, Joshua and Moses, were the
am. Who publishedcthe Hebrew chas
racrer in separate typeset Saccino,
About the ,encl. of the sixteenth
centurya. the Vatican -and Paris prin-
ted.’ intro,du‘ccd, Syriac, ‘Arabian,
,e’-WU‘: Armenian, Coptic, or Egyp-.
“an characters, which, with several
other Chinese and Iriclian types, have
been improved and published by -the
'PT3nlers.in London. . , . V
. This,art has also passed from,Eu,-
fope to; Goa, and the Philippine
among other curiosities and .piecgg‘of
antiquity, a reverend, clergyman has
;'w‘liich reports, that printing is ri,
‘ gorously prohibited thrq1rgho,ut the‘
‘,;Turl<;ish empire,‘ ‘by: sl1oiving'-ftlge
C “ Capitulatioris andArtii:le.x‘ of.Peiace
' pire, printed at Constantinople, by
.Abraham Gabia Cliafnahat, anno;
v 1663.” . . '-
Thus we have
and by whom the [art of printing with '
fseparate types was invented; and,
also how it was at first dispersed ;'.'w:3.
shall therefore proceed to the account
of the practice of this art in England.
In what uncertainty the historyjof
the first use of printing in Englandlis,
may be seen ‘bythe follow-ingiimper-. '
iect detail. Some ofour Almauack
makers tell usthat printing was first
used in England A, D. 14-4-3, about
seven years," before it was practised,
or about three years after. it was first
‘thought of ; others say, not till after
M59. The workmen of the print-
ing-press at the‘ 'Theatre-in Oxford,
in a paper printed-by‘ tliern August
23, A. D. 1729, aim-m, that the
noble art andsmystery:-of printing
was first‘ invented in’ the year‘ 1430.
and brought into England in the year
1447; a’ mistake, perl1apS:.for.l‘1'7‘P.
that the rnystery of printing appeared
Oxford, than at any other place in
Europe, A. Haerlem, and."Mentz I ex.
ceptcd; which fixes the introduction’
and elsewhcre'in Europe, in 1467 ;
339510“. New. York, 8.cc.-; in Arnciicai
England in,’1g1:,6,0,
and to Morocco,piu' .A'rm-s-." . Besides, ‘
"convinced us of the.‘ vulgar error, ‘
; between the King‘ of Great Britain .
; and the Sultan of the Ottoman em. .
briefly shown where, -
573.,
tenyears sooner ‘at; the University of V
of it there so early as 1457 ; since it.
is certain that it appeared at Rome,’ -5
K .
The learned Mr. Collier. assures uiz, ' I
thoughby the date Put in the mar.-- .
‘gin. he 39911.13 Willing to liaye it'."'’..‘'.
thought that it did not apt:-var, at I. if,
Oxford beforeplpd-54-. The diligent:
collector of the 422711;]; of Priizting,
supposes, this art iirst brought into
3 and M.r-.-Baileys‘ ff"
‘7 implicitly