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Queen Elizabeth type

Very early Irish type. Brendan Leen writes about : "Insistent on communicating with foreign visitors to her court in their own language, the Queen--in the period c. 1560 to 1565--commissioned from Christopher Nugent a manuscript Iryshe-Latten-Englishe Primer. The Primer included an Irish alphabet as well as a glossary of words and phrases in Irish with translations in Latin and English." The first book to use the Queen Elizabeth type was Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma (1571), a catechism in the Irish language, by John Kearney. The hybrid Irish font of Queen Elizabeth was used initially for religious materials.

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