“Monumental in depth and detail … a vade-mecum for all serious medievalists. In its rich deployment of the most up-to-date publications its bibliographical usefulness can hardly be exaggerated. It is nothing less than an encyclopaedia of medieval French literature. …. A colossal achievement … This leads us closer to medieval literature then all the revisionist enterprises which Busby refers to at the beginning. They will be remaindered, his book will remain.” Modern Language Review, 100.4, 2005 Table of Contents Volume I Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1: Manufacture and Sale Chapter 2: Varieties of Scribal Behaviour I. Mirror Copying A: Fabliaux B: Perceval C: The Turin Rigomer Episode II. The Wilful Scribe III. Correctors and Editors Chapter 3: Mise en texte, Mise en page, and Reader Manipulation I. Mise en texte II. Mise en page Chapter 4: Text, Miniature, and Rubric I. Le roman de Renart II. The Crusade Cycle III. Alexander Romances IV. Chrétien's Perceval and its Continuations Chapter 5: Readings in Context I. A Taxonomy of Manuscripts of the Old French Epic II. Epigonal Arthurian Romance and its Manuscripts III. The Scandal of the Fabliaux Manuscripts IV. Authorial and Generic Identity as Context

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