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Cornish literature
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Cornish literature, the body of writing in Cornish, the Celtic language of Cornwall in southwestern Britain. The earliest extant records in Cornish are glosses added to Latin texts as well as the proper names in the Bodmin Manumissions, all of which date from about the 10th century. The 11th-century Domesday Book also includes records in Cornish. The Vocabularium cornicum (c. 1100; Eng. trans. The Old Cornish Vocabulary), an addition to Aelfric’s Latin–Anglo-Saxon glossary, provides the only substantial record of Old Cornish. A 41-line poem, perhaps from a longer work, is the earliest known literary text in Cornish. It was written ...(100 of 806 words)