New book on Old French text in Hebrew script (Judeo-French)

[Marc Kiwitt]

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Dear list members,

allow me to announce the publication of my book, which might be of 
interest to some of you: 

  Marc Kiwitt, Der altfranzösische Fiebertraktat Fevres. Teiledition und 
  sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchung, Würzburger medizinhistorische 
  Forschungen 75, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2001, 216 pages.
  ISBN 3-8260-2299-8.

Its topic is the partial edition and linguistic study of an Old French 
medical treatise written in Hebrew script. The main focus of the study 
is a lexicological analysis of the Old French vocabulary of the text 
within the framework of French historical lexicography and etymology, 
following the methodological approach of the Dictionnaire Etymologique 
de l'Ancien Français (DEAF). Special attention is also devoted to the 
question in how far the study of this text sheds new light on the 
linguistic status of the Old French texts in Hebrew script as a whole, 
investigating whether their linguistic features justify to consider 
their language as a separate Judeo-French social dialect or scripta that 
would be different from the Christian varieties of Old French. 

The book also includes a description of the manuscript, an analysis of 
the graphemical system of the text, a study of the phonological and 
morphological characteristics of its language, an attempt at a 
linguistic dating and localization, as well as a brief overview of its 
sources and historical context and extensive glossaries of the Old 
French, Hebrew and Latin words contained in it.

Best regards

Marc Kiwitt

13 rue Frédéric Sauton
75005 Paris, France

phone: (+33)1 46 33 75 10
e-mail: Marc.Kiwitt at gmx.net