This collection of glosses, which stems from materials originally uncovered by the eminent Latin paleographer, Bernhard Bischoff, may well be the last major addition to the corpus of Old High German glosses. Dr Mayer's work adds about 1700 glosses and offers for the first time extensive information on their paleographic dating. It also contains a large number of scratched glosses, which in many cases offer more original material than glosses written by pen. This will be a standard reference for those interested in German ...
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This collection of glosses, which stems from materials originally uncovered by the eminent Latin paleographer, Bernhard Bischoff, may well be the last major addition to the corpus of Old High German glosses. Dr Mayer's work adds about 1700 glosses and offers for the first time extensive information on their paleographic dating. It also contains a large number of scratched glosses, which in many cases offer more original material than glosses written by pen. This will be a standard reference for those interested in German etymology, the history of the German language, and medieval Latin lexicography. /Diese Glossensammlung, die auf Angaben des Mittellateiners und Palaographen Bernhard Bischoff beruht, ist wohl der letzte umfangreichere Nachtrag zum Corpus der althochdeutschen Glossen. Sie Fugt zu den bereits veroffentlichten Glossen rund 1700 hinzu, wobei alle Federglossen von Bernhard Bischoff palaographisch datiert sing. Sie enthalt auBerdem eine groBere Anzahl von Griffelglossen, die immer wieder urspringlicheres Material bieten als Federglossen. Dr Mayers Ausgabe ist fur jeden wichtig, der am Althochdeutschen, an der Geschiehte der deutschen Sprache oder an mittellateinischer Lexikographie interessiert ist.
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