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Middle Cornish charter endorsement
verse beg. golsoug ty cow[ez] / byz na borz m[ez]

  • Middle Cornish
  • verse
  • Cornish texts
A Middle Cornish poem in which the speaker gives a woman and a man advice on how to proceed in marriage. The text is written on the back of a charter concerning a land transaction. Different interpretations have been offered for the context of the poem: some (Jenner, Nance) have suggested that it represents an extract from a longer work now lost, such as a Middle Cornish secular play, while others (Newlyn, Toorians) have pointed out that no wider textual framework needs to be presupposed.
Title
Middle Cornish charter endorsement
also known as the Middle Cornish charter fragment (see below)
First words (verse)
  • golsoug ty cow[ez] / byz na borz m[ez]
Manuscripts
Language
  • Middle Cornish
Form
verse (primary)

Classification

Cornish textsCornish texts
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Toorians, Lauran, The Middle Cornish charter endorsement. The making of a marriage in medieval Cornwall [Middle Cornish text, with introduction, translation, commentary and glossary critically edited. With a paleological description of the manuscript by J. P. M. Jansen], Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 67, Innsbruck, 1991.
[ed.] Campanile, Enrico, “Un frammento scenico Medio-Cornico”, Studi e Saggi Linguistici 3 (1963): 60–80.
[ed.] Nance, R. Morton, “New light on Cornish”, Old Cornwall 4:6 (1947): 214–216.
[ed.] Nance, R. Morton, “The charter endorsement in Cornish [Brit. Mus. Add. Chart. 19491]”, Old Cornwall 2:4 (1932): 34–36.  
comments: The text of the Middle Cornish charter endorsement rendered in unified Cornish.
The text in unified Cornish
[ed.] Jenner, Henry, “Descriptions of Cornish manuscripts: II. The fourteenth-century charter endorsement”, Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall 20:1 (1915): 41–48.

Secondary sources (select)

Newlyn, Evelyn S., “Between the pit and the pedestal: images of Eve and Mary in medieval Cornish drama”, in: Edelgard E. DuBruck [ed.], New images of medieval women: essays toward a cultural anthropology, 1, Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1989. 121–164.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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May 2013, last updated: January 2024
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