THE CHARTER FRAGMENT AND PASCON AGAN ARLUTH gans Williams, Everson, Kent The first fully comprehensive examination of these historical Cornish texts including a palaeographic transcription of the handwriting of the original scribes. h.b. K.S. 978-1-78201-182-8 […]
Historical Texts
Bewnans Meryasek – edited by Ray Chubb
Publisher: Agan Tavas This fabulously interesting transliteration of the original 1504 version of the miracle play, Bewnans Meryasek or the Camborne Play, is of great interest to Cornish language speakers and also to those with no Cornish because it a bilingual edition with a literal English translation. It contains 12 illustrations taken, with permission, from […]
NOY HA’ N GORHEL edited by P.A.S. Pool and William Morris
PUBLISHER: Gwask Abermur An extract from the first part of the Ordinalia telling the story of Noah’s flood. In Cornish with a literal English translation along side. UC £2.25
SYLVESTER HA’N DHRAGON transcribed and translated by R. Morton-Nance
PUBLISHER: Agan Tavas An extract from the Miracle Play the Life of Meryasek, put into Unified by Morton-Nance with a literal English translation. Recently reprinted as a facsimile with a new attractive cover. UC 1 901409 05 8 £1.75
THE CAMBORNE PLAY by Myrna Combellack
PUBLISHER: Dyllansow Truran A verse translation into English of the only surviving British Saint’s play Bewnans Meriasek. This translation was made primarily for acting. The book is colour coded in order to divide the play into its various parts. A great opportunity for non Cornish speakers to become familiar with this lively and historical work. […]
THE CORNISH ORDINALIA 3rd PLAY: RESURRECTION
PUBLISHER: The Cornish Language Board Two years later the Cornish Language Board published the third play in the same format as the second. UC £4.50 Edwin Norris’s edition of the original text may be accessed here.
THE CORNISH ORDINALIA – 2nd PLAY: PASSIO CHRISTI
PUBLISHER: Agan Tavas With the permission of the Cornish Language Board, this is the second edition of the book in Unified Cornish with an English translation. Graham Sandercock did a great amount of work on the first edition and there is further editing in this edition by Ray Chubb. It has been kept in the […]
THE CORNISH ORDINALIA 1st PLAY: ORIGO MUNDI
PUBLISHER: Agan Tavas It has taken 17 years but at last the task of publishing all three parts of the Ordinalia in Unified Cornish has been completed. Fittingly, for the first play in the series, Origo Mundi has an excellent preface by Jane French who as Jane Bakere was the author of “The Cornish Ordinalia: […]
GWRYANS AN BYS
PUBLISHER: Dyllansow Truran Creation of the World is a Cornish Drama written by William Jordon (1611) but almost certainly transcribed from a much earlier manuscript. This version was put into the standard Unified spelling by Morton–Nance and A.S.D. Smith and edited by E.G. Retallack–Hooper. The Cornish has an English translation over leaf. UC 0907566367 £2.45 […]