Page:A handbook of the Cornish language; Chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature.djvu/64

Rh Gwavas MS., and in Dr. Borlase's hand in the Borlase MS. It has been misprinted, with notes by the present writer (who had no opportunity of revising the proofs), in the Rev. A. Cummings's History of Cury and Gunwalloe, 1875, and Mrs. Dent's Annals of Winchcombe and Sudeley (the place from which the original Letter is dated), 1877.

The following grammatical and lexicographical pieces belong more or less to the living period of Cornish:—

1. Lhuyd's Cornish Grammar, printed in his Archæologia Britannica in 1707, and reprinted by Pryce in 1790.

2. Lhuyd's Cornish Vocabulary. The unpublished MS. belongs to Sir John Williams, Bart., of Llan-stephan, Carmarthenshire. Most of the words in it are to be found in Borlase's and Pryce's Vocabularies see below). They were collected partly from the Dramas, partly from the Cottonian Vocabulary, and partly from living people.

3. The Gwavas Vocabulary. This is a short vocabulary of the latest Cornish (extending from A to O) in the Gwavas MS. The words were incorporated into Borlase's Vocabulary.

4. The Hals Vocabulary. This is a fragment (A to C) in the Gwavas MS. It is fantastic and of little value.

5. The Borlase Vocabulary, compiled from the MSS. of Lhuyd, Gwavas, and Tonkin, from Lhuyd's Archæologia, from oral tradition, and from other sources. The original MS. is in the Borlase Collection, now belonging to Mr. J. D. Enys, and it was printed at the end of Dr. Borlase's Antiquities Historical and Monumental of Cornwall in 1754, and again, revised, in 1769. It is a copious vocabulary, but is rendered rather less valuable by the inclusion of a large number of Welsh and Breton words, gathered chiefly from other parts