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The Bodmin manumissions or Bodmin Gospels is a manuscript supposed to be of the 9th century. The document is of interest to language scholars as it contains writing in Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
, Saxon and Cornish
Cornish language

The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
 texts.

Recorded in the Old Cornish language are the names and details of slaves freed in Bodmin
Bodmin

Bodmin is a town in Cornwall, United Kingdom, with a population of 12,778 . It was the county town of Cornwall, until the Crown Courts moved to Truro, which is also the administrative centre....
 ( the then principle town of Cornwall, an important religious centre) between the mid tenth and mid eleventh centuries.






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The Bodmin manumissions or Bodmin Gospels is a manuscript supposed to be of the 9th century. The document is of interest to language scholars as it contains writing in Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
, Saxon and Cornish
Cornish language

The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
 texts.

Recorded in the Old Cornish language are the names and details of slaves freed in Bodmin
Bodmin

Bodmin is a town in Cornwall, United Kingdom, with a population of 12,778 . It was the county town of Cornwall, until the Crown Courts moved to Truro, which is also the administrative centre....
 ( the then principle town of Cornwall, an important religious centre) between the mid tenth and mid eleventh centuries. There is also an Old Cornish Vocabulary, an English - Latin vocabulary of C. AD 1000 to which was added about a century later a Cornish translation. Some 961 Cornish words are recorded, ranging from celestial
Celestial

The term celestial refers to the sky and/or Heaven. An astronomical object is sometimes referred to as a celestial body or celestial object....
 bodies, through church and craft occupation, to plants and animals.

This, it is believed, is the only original record relating to Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, or its Bishopric
Bishopric

Bishopric may refer to:*Diocese an ecclesiastical region run by a bishop in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Anglican and some Lutheran churches....
, anterior to the conquest. The volume is in quarto, of rather an oblong form, and is very neatly written, though evidently by a scribe not well informed, or of great learning, even for those times. The entries seem to be contemporaneous with the manumissions which they record. The practice of manumitting slaves in the church, as recorded in the entries, appears to have existed from the early part of the fourth century.

Further reading

  • The Cornish Language and Its Literature. P. Berresford Ellis
    Peter Berresford Ellis

    Peter Berresford Ellis is a historian, literary biographer and novelist who has published over 80 books to date under his own name and his pseudonym Peter Tremayne....
    , .1974.
  • Language and History in Cornwall. Leicester University Press. Martyn F Wakelin, . 1975.
  • Die Freilassungsurkunden des Bodminevangeliars. "A Grammatical Miscellany Offered to Otto Jespersen
    Otto Jespersen

    Jens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen was a Denmark linguistics who specialized in the grammar of the English language language.He was born in Randers in northern Jutland and attended Copenhagen University, earning degrees in English, French language, and Latin....
    ", London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Max Förster,. 1930.


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  • by Heather Rose Jones