Catalogue description William Scawen's manuscript entitled 'Antiquities Cornubrittanic', 1688.   Contents (in...

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Description:

William Scawen's manuscript entitled 'Antiquities Cornubrittanic', 1688.

 

Contents (in a later hand).

 

Letter from William Borlase to the Revd. Dr. Lyttleton, Dean of Exeter about Scawen's MS. 5 January 1748

 

Title page, giving titles of whole work.

 

Memorial on the primitive speech of Cornwall (pages numbered 1-53).

 

Title page: Means to repair the decay of the Cornish tongue (p.59)

 

The Passio Christi in ancient Cornish, literal translation, and version in meter in parallel columns.

 

Observations on the language of the Passio Christi (pages numbered 101-104).

 

Notes on Cornish place-names (pages 104, 105, 115, 107, 108).

 

Of the Ecclesiastical Houses in Cornwall 113.

 

Names of decayed Cornish families (pages 117, 118, 121. 122).

 

Conclusion (addressed 'To my worthy Countrymen of Cornwall....') (last four pages).
Date: 1688, 1748
Held by: Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Publication note:

(For Scawen and later printed and abriged editions of the MS. See H. Jenner, A Handbook of The Cornish Language (London 1904) pp. 16-17; G.C. Boase and W.P. Courtney, Bibliotheca Cornubiens, 11 (London 1878), 629).

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