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 |Title=<i>Gwreans an bys</i>
+|OtherTitles=The creacion of the world
+|TitleInfo=The Bodley manuscript bears an English title, <i>The creacion of the world</i>. The Cornish title by which it is often is known today, <i>Gwreans an bys</i> (or <i>Gwryans an bys</i>), is a modern invention to mark it out as a Cornish rather than English play.
+|LanguageAuto=Middle Cornish
+|Century1=16th century
+|Manuscripts2={{MS
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+|prefix=*
+|MS=Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 219
+|comments=Incomplete transcript by William Jordan of Helston, dated 12 August 1611.
+}}{{MS
+|Select=Manuscript
+|prefix=;
+|comments=Later copies
+}}{{MS
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+|prefix=*
+|MS=London, British Library, MS Additional 28554
+|comments=Copy, with Keigwin’s English translation.
+|folios=24v-49
+}}{{MS
+|Select=Manuscript
+|prefix=*
+|MS=London, British Library, MS Harley 1867
+|comments=Copy, possibly from Add. 28554, again with Keigwin’s English translation.
+|folios=2-58v
+}}{{MS
+|Select=Manuscript
+|prefix=*
+|MS=London, British Library, MS Additional 43409
+|comments=Fragment of the beginning of the Cornish text, with Keigwin’s English translation. It is written in reverse page order, beg. on. f. 58v.
+|folios=56v-58v
+}}
 |FormPrimary=prose;
+|Classification=Subject:Middle Cornish drama
+|NarrativeWorlds=Subject:Adam and Eve
+|Published=No
 }}