Dieser Band vereint 20 BeitrAge aktueller Forschungen zur Familiennamengeographie in Europa und bietet damit erstmals einen Aoeberblick A1/4ber die internationale Forschung. Das Spektrum reicht von lAnderA1/4bergreifenden Untersuchungen (Skandinavien) A1/4ber lAnderspezifische Darstellungen (z. B. A-sterreich, Deutschland, Niederlande, England, Polen, Spanien, Portugal) bis hin zu kleinrAumigen PhAnomenen (z. B. Alemanisch, Westmitteldeutsch). Zahlreiche Verbreitungskarten dokumentieren die arealen VerhAltnisse.

This essential work with its more than a thousand maps and commentaries is the first to document the surname stock of the Federal Republic of Germany by statistical occurrence and geographical distribution. It meets the interests of linguists with a grammatical part (three volumes) dealing with the phonematics, graphematics, mor-phematics and syntagmatics of family names, while cultural historians and population historians are served with a lexical part (three volumes - surnames by place of origin and domicile, by occupation and by nicknames, by given names). The atlas provides a new basis for onomastics. It also presents an indispensable aid to other disciplines from social history through research into settlement and migration to genetics.

The Heidelberg Manuscript P of Otfrida (TM)s Evangelienbuch also leads us close to the author. It was written at the end of the 9th century by two of Otfrida (TM)s pupils, who had already been involved with V (Cod. Vindobonensis 2687) (Vol. I,1 and I,2) and is characterised by artistic illuminated capitals, display scripts, neumata and historically significant linguistic variants. Manuscript D (a oeDiscissusa Fulda around 975), of which only fragments have been preserved, completes the diplomatic edition of Otfrid texts VPD.

The Heidelberg manuscript (P) of Otfrid's -Evangelienbuch- is a further source that puts us in relatively close contact with the author. It was written in the late 9th century in Weissenburg by two of Otfrid's pupils who had already collaborated on manuscript V (Cod. Vindobonensis 2687; Vols. I,1 and I,2). Its distinguishing features are the highly artistic initials, textual foregrounding strategies, neumes, and written variants of language-historical significance. Manuscript D (Discissus, Fulda, around 975) survives in fragments only. These have been put together here for the first time. With this publication the diplomatic edition of the Otfrid manuscripts V, P, and D is now complete."

This work, containing more than a thousand maps and commentaries, is the first to document the surname stock of Germany by statistical occurrence and geographical distribution. There is a grammatical part dealing with the phonematics, graphematics, morphematics, and syntagmatics, while cultural historiansare served with a lexical part (surnames by place of origin, by occupation, by nicknames, by given names).