on the Cornish Language by the present writer in the Transactions of the Philological Society, 1873, and in Archiv für Celtische Lexicographic, with notes and emendations by Prof. Loth, in 1898.
Translations.
Passages of Scripture.
Genesis i. Two versions, one by John Boson and one probably by John Keigwin. Both are in the Gwavas MS. One, Boson's, with his name to it, is in the Borlase MS. Boson's was printed by D. Gilbert at the end of his edition of the Poem of the Passion, and in a much revised form by Canon Williams at the end of his Lexicon. Keigwin's version was printed by D. Gilbert at the end of his edition of Jordan's Creation. There are many verbal variations from the Gwavas copies in the printed editions.
Genesis iii., translated by William Kerew, in the Gwavas MS. Published by Prof. Loth in the Revue Celtique, April 1902. St. Matthew ii. 1–20, translated by W. Kerew, in the Gwavas MS. Published in the Revue Celtique, April 1902.
St. Matthew iv., also by W. Kerew, in the Gwavas MS. Published in the Revue Celtique, April 1902.
The last three were copied from a MS. of Matthew Rowe of Hendra in Sancreed, by H. Usticke.
Proverbs xxx. 5, 6.
Psalms ii. n; vii. n; xxxv. i, 2.
These are in the Gwavas MS., probably translated by W. Gwavas himself. Unpublished.
The Hundredth Psalm, of the Sternhold and Hopkins version, literally translated line for line, followed by an unsigned letter partly in rhyme. In the Gwavas MS. Unpublished.
