Le DEAF est un ouvrage fondamental de recherche qui traite le lexique ancien français de façon exhaustive. Il couvre le français de ses débuts (Serments de Strasbourg 842) jusqu'au milieu du XIVe siècle, dans toute son extension diatopique (de l'anglo-normand jusqu'aux écrits produits en Italie du Nord et en Terre Sainte), sur la base des textes littéraires et non-littéraires et les glossaires anciens.

The DEAF bibliography is the key to French medieval literature and pertaining research. It offers bibliographical data for all the sources cited in the DEAF, gives a qualitative characterisation of these sources, and provides the users with further-reaching information, e.g. the identification of the manuscripts, the dating and localisation of the texts and manuscripts, cross-references to the most important bibliographical handbooks, etc.

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The DEAF is the key to French medieval literature, fulfilling a number of functions. The first is to provide bibliographical data for all the sources cited in the DEAF. The second is to give a substantive and qualitative characterisation of these sources, particularly of the primary sources. The third is to furnish the users of both the dictionary and the bibliography with further-reaching information, viz. the identification of the manuscripts, the dating and localisation of the texts and manuscripts, cross-references to the most important bibliographical handbooks and the abbreviations in neighbouring dictionaries. In addition, there is the central task of critiquing the literature cited? which allows the users to share in the editors' wealth of experience. The new edition has been completely revised, with the amount of information three times that of the 1993 edition. The DEAF Bibliography with its system of sigla has become the benchmark for French historical lexicography.