Download or read book The Typography of Syriac written by J. F. Coakley and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syriac, a dialect of the ancient Aramaic language, has a remarkable Christian literature spanning a thousand years from the 4th to the 13th centuries. Using archival documents, type specimens and other scattered evidence, this study records and illustrates 129 different Syriac types.