Dictionaries and Glossaries.- Scherz (Johann Georg) Glossarium Germanicum Medii Aevi..., edited by Jeremias Jakob Oberlin, 2 vol., first edition, text in Latin and German in double columns, titles with engraved vignettes, engraved illustration to vol. 2, 4 pp. Oberlin's pro-rectorial and Strasbourg U lecture-list bound after vol. 1 title, bookplates (one of Henry Drummond of Albury Park), a few nicks or small tears, toning, mostly marginal, scattered light spotting and the odd mark, surface soiling, some cracking at hinges, contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green morocco labels, some splitting at joints, spine darkened, rubbed and bumped with a few marks, Strasbourg, Lorenz and Schuler, 1781-4; and 5 others in various languages including a defective 17th century Latin dictionary, v.s. (7)

⁂ Oberlin, like Scherz, served as a professor at the University of Strasbourg. His scholarly work included studies of French dialects and the Minnesingers, and he expanded his colleague’s unpublished materials by incorporating Middle High German poetic texts that had appeared in print after Scherz’s death.