Opening Pandora’s Box: Charles d’Orléans’s Reception and the Work of Critical Bibliography

Abstract

ood afternoon. It is a true honor to be here, having nurtured my Gown scholarship on the work of the very scholars who have given this lecture before me. In fact, Ann Blair, who gave this same lecture in 2017, was the one who first introduced me to book history in an undergraduate seminar. The main subject of my talk—Grenoble, Bibliothèque municipale MS 873—is an all-but-unknown manuscript miscellany of work by the late medieval poet Charles d’Orléans, a manuscript heretofore substantively treated only in A. E. B. Coldiron’s excellent study of the