This commemorative work on the 65th birthday of the Romance studies scholar Gunter Holtus compiles 67 essays by linguists and literary scholars from Europe, the USA and Latin America. The main areas of focus are variational linguistics and the history of linguistics, lexicography and lexicology, edition philology and research on scriptae, as well as Romance studies as a university discipline."

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Groeber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in its contents and in the choice of languages.

The study is dedicated to the exploration of the language employed in Old French official documents from the Luxembourg area. First, it provides an edition of all the original documents in Old French pertaining to the governments of Countess Ermesindes (1226-1247) and Count Henry V (1247-1281) of Luxembourg. In addition, it offers a detailed analysis of the language of these documents and thus represents a contribution to historical linguistics research on scriptae. Accordingly, the methods employed are a combination of historical and linguistic (drawing on the methods used for analysis of text varieties); they are used to investigate the written idioms of 13th century Northeast France. The study contains extensive material on the scriptae of the Middle Ages.