Bodmin manumissions
- Latin, Old English
- prose
A group of 51 records, in Latin and Old English, of grants and manumission, the freeing of slaves, at Bodmin, Cornwall. These records were added to blank spaces and additional leaves of a gospel manuscript, the Bodmin Gospels (BL MS Add. 9381), over a period stretching from about the mid-10th to 11th centuries. They form an important source of information about social history and onomastics. The majority of personal names are Old English, while others are Latin and Old Cornish, making it one of the earliest witnesses of the Cornish language to survive.
- Latin Old English
- Secondary language(s): Old Cornish
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.
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