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Pascon agan Arluth
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Lengthy narrative poem (259 stt.) in Middle Cornish on the Passion of Christ.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 2039D
Copy from BL Additional 14934, stt. 65-80, with English translation.
MS
London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 806/vol. 2
rubric: Mount Calvary, or the history of the passion, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, written in Cornish (as it may bee coniectured) some centuries past; interpreted in the English tongue in the year 1682 by John Keigwin
f. 40r–
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Cornish c. 1
rubric: Tit. II. Mount Calvary, or a poem on the Passion & Resurrection of ... Jesus Christ In Cornish, “with an English prose translation: at p. 74 is an account of the poem”.
p. 25
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Cornish c. 3
Cornish text, with an English translation of stt. 1-229 (out of 259).
f. 123–
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.] [dipl. ed.] [facs.] Williams, Nicholas J. A. [ed. and tr.], Michael Everson [transcr. and facs.], and Alan M. Kent [introd.], The Charter fragment and Pascon agan Arluth, Corpus Textuum Cornicorum, 1, Dundee: Evertype, 2020.
[ed.] [tr.] Edwards, Ray, Pascon agan Arluth / Passhyon agan Arloedh: Kan an Passhyon / The Passion poem / Mount Calvary, 2nd, revised ed., Cornish Language Board, 2008.
Cornish text with a version in Common Cornish (Kernewek Kemmyn) and an English translation.
[ed.] [tr.] Edwards, Ray, Pascon agan Arluth / Passhyon agan Arloedh: Kan an Passhyon / The Passion poem / Mount Calvary, Cornish Language Board, 1996.
Cornish text with a version in Common Cornish (Kernewek Kemmyn) and an English translation.
[ed.] Herniman, Mark, “Pascon agan Arluth: a critical study of the Cornish Passion poem”, MA thesis, University of Exeter, 1984.
Study, which includes a text edition.
[ed.] [tr.] Pennaod, Goulven, Passyon agan Arluth / Pasion hon Aotrou: barzhoneg kernevek eus ar 15t kantved: testenn orin diwar an dornskrid Harleian N. 1782, Quimper: Preder, 1978.
Edition and translation into modern Breton.
[ed.] [tr.] Hooper, E. G. R., R. Morton Nance, and A. S. D. Smith, Passyon agan Arluth: Cornish passion poem in Unified Cornish, Cornish Language Board, 1972.
abstract:
Edition in Unified Cornish orthography, with an English translation.
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, “The Passion, a Middle Cornish poem ... from a British Museum MS, Harleian N 1782”, Transactions of the Philological Society 7 — Supplement (1860–1861): 1–100.
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[ed.] [tr.] Gilbert, Davies, Mount Calvary: or the history of the passion, death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ [...] interpreted in the English tongue [...] by John Keigwin, London, 1826.
Internet Archive: <link>
Secondary sources (select)
Toorians, Lauran, “Passie, lief en leed: de oudste poëzie van het Keltische Cornwall”, Kruispunt 129 (1990): 3–55.
Murdoch, Brian, “Pascon agan Arluth: the literary position of the Cornish poem of the Passion”, Studi medievali 22 (1981): 821–836.
Hawke, Andrew, “The manuscripts of the Cornish passion poem”, Cornish Studies: Journal of the Institute of Cornish Studies 9 (1981): 23–28.
