Cornish National Library
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The Cornish National Library is a proposed facility for the exhibition, research and storage of Cornwall
's document and manuscript archives, currently held at Cornwall Record Office
, the Cornish Studies Centre
and various other collections, libraries and institutions both within Cornwall and outside.
It is proposed by Cornwall Council's Community Overview and Scrutiny Committee that a new building costing between £8-12 million is constructed.
Cross Group Working Party Review of Cornwall Libraries in March 2011 stated its aim to repatriate many culturally important manuscripts to Cornwall, for instance, medieval Cornish language plays like Bewnans Ke
currently held by the National Library of Wales
, or the Ordinalia
held by the Bodleian Library
. The possibility of getting the Prophecy of Merlin
from the Vatican Archives has also been mooted.
Cornwall
Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...
's document and manuscript archives, currently held at Cornwall Record Office
Cornwall Record Office
Cornwall Record Office , part of Cornwall Council, is situated at Old County Hall in Truro and is the main repository for the historical archives of Cornwall....
, the Cornish Studies Centre
Cornish Studies Centre
For other uses of the name "Cornwall Centre" see Cornwall Centre.The Cornish Studies Centre is in a building called The Cornwall Centre. It is Cornwall's largest library of Cornish printed and published archival material. It contains a wide range of resources for everyday use and academic...
and various other collections, libraries and institutions both within Cornwall and outside.
It is proposed by Cornwall Council's Community Overview and Scrutiny Committee that a new building costing between £8-12 million is constructed.
Cross Group Working Party Review of Cornwall Libraries in March 2011 stated its aim to repatriate many culturally important manuscripts to Cornwall, for instance, medieval Cornish language plays like Bewnans Ke
Bewnans Ke
Bewnans Ke is a Middle Cornish play on the life of Saint Kea or Ke, who was venerated in Cornwall, Brittany, and elsewhere. It was written around 1500, but survives only in an incomplete manuscript from the second half of the 16th century. The play was entirely unknown until 2000, when it was...
currently held by the National Library of Wales
National Library of Wales
The National Library of Wales , Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales; one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.Welsh is its main medium of communication...
, or the Ordinalia
Ordinalia
The Ordinalia are three medieval mystery plays written in Cornish from the late fourteenth century. The three plays are Origo Mundi, , Passio Christi and Resurrexio Domini...
held by the Bodleian Library
Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
. The possibility of getting the Prophecy of Merlin
Prophecy of Merlin
Prophecy of Merlin , sometimes called The Prophecy of Ambrosius Merlin concerning the Seven Kings, is a 12th-century poem written in Latin hexameters by John of Cornwall, which he claimed was based or revived from a lost manuscript in the Cornish language. The original manuscript is unique and...
from the Vatican Archives has also been mooted.