Cornish National Library

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.

References

• Celtic League, Cornish Treasures, http://celticartefacts.yolasite.com/

• West Briton newspaper, 25 August 2011 - http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Key-collections-lost/story-13199980-detail/story.html - Follow up Article not on website.

• Bringing The Ordinalia Home, The Cornish National Library – The Stadium of the Mind - Cross Group Working Party Review of Cornwall Libraries March 2011 - http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=7a6b4aae-cfb4-485b-be3c-9dff0dca323c&version=-1

• Community Overview and Scrutiny Committee, 25 August 2011, The New Archive and Record Office for Cornwall - http://democracy.cornwall.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=34393&ISATT=1#search=%22A%20New%20Archive%20Record%20Office%20for%20Cornwall%22

• Cabinet, 14 September 2011, The New Archive and Record Office for Cornwall - http://democracy.cornwall.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=35010&ISATT=1#search=%22A%20New%20Archive%20Record%20Office%20for%20Cornwall%22