Old Cornish

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  • A larger grammar or a commentary upon Donatus [1] (Grammatica major seu commentarius in Donatum). This is his earliest work, written at the request of his scholars, probably between 800 and 805. It is still unprinted, except a small portion in Mabillon [2], Vetera analectam, Nov. ed. (Paris, 1723) pp. 357, 358.
  • John T. Koch: Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia (2006) p. 489: The earliest evidence of Old Cornish consists of several glosses from the 10th century:
    • written on Smagdarus's COmmentary on the classical grammarian Donatus,
    • on the Book of Tobit found in the manuscript Oxoniensis Posterior,
      • Joseph Loth in Revue Celtique disputes this is Cornish [3]
    • and in the manumissions found on the Bodmin Gospels, which record the freeing of 122 slaves, of whom 98 were Cornish, and many had native Cornish names.


Mills 2013:

  • "Book of Tobit" in Oxoniensis Posterior' has glosses in Cornish. (Jackson 1953: 55)
  • De raris fabulis in Oxoniensis Posterior' contains possibly Old Cornish glosses. (Loth 1893; Jackson 1953: 55)
  • Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae (DCP; Breeze 2007)
  • Smaragdus's Commentary on Donatus (SCD; Jackson 1953: 59; Loth 1914)
  • Prophetia Merlini (PM; Curley 1982) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_Merlin