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Citation

Williams K (2026) Hebrew and Greek Printing in Scotland. In: Green D, Mann AJ, Marshall J & Wingfield E (eds.) History of the Book in Scotland, Volume I, Part 2. Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-history-of-the-book-in-scotland-volume-1-part-ii.html

Abstract
First paragraph: Dickson and Edmond, in their seminal Annals of Scottish Printing (1890), argue that the first appearance of Greek type in Scotland came in 1556 with the printing of Ane compendious and breue Tractate, Concernyng ye Office and dewtie of Kyngis, Spirituall Pastoris, and temporall Jugis by John Scot (DE 170). The evidence for this is a single capital letter at sig. B3r which appears to be an upside-down sigma, but this is by no means clear. In the context of the Scots-language text, the letter is clearly intended to be a yoch (?) and it is not obvious that this is genuine repurposing of a fragment of a Greek typeface rather than an attempt at a purpose-made, albeit crude, capital yoch. Certainly, no complete fount was available in 1563 when Robert Lekprevik apologised to the readers of George Hay's Confutation of the Abbote of Crosraguels Masse, explaining that he ‘had no Carracters to expres’ the Greek words used by Hay and so was forced to use scribes to add them by hand (Hay 1563, sig. Av). As late as 1579 John Ross, printing for Henry Charteris, left spaces for Greek (and Hebrew) words in Smeton's Ad virulentum Archibaldi Hamiltonii apostatae dialogum which were then also filled in by hand (Smeton 1579; the copies at NLS H.36.c.25 and Huntington Library 41083 both have the Greek and Hebrew quotations added, but in two distinct, contemporary hands