Bodmin manumissions
9TH-CENTURY ILLUMINATED GOSPEL-BOOK WITH RECORDS OF MANUMISSIONS OF ENSLAVED PEOPLE
Bodmin Gospels; St Petroc Gospels
The Bodmin manumissions are records included in a manuscript Gospel book, the Bodmin Gospels or St Petroc Gospels, British Library, Add MS 9381. The manuscript is mostly in Latin, but with elements in Old English and the earliest written examples of the Cornish language, which is thus of particular interest to language scholars and early Cornish historians.