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LoriJ.Walters
FloridaStateUniversity
SignatureandVoice
intheQueen’sMS:
TheExampleoftheLivredesEpistres
dudebatsusleRommantdelaRose
ChristinedePizanassumedmanyfunctionsinproducingtheQueen’sMS
(London,BritishLibrary,MS4431).Besidesbeingtheauthorofits30texts,she
wasthemanuscriptmastermind,designer,andeditor.Thedebatecontinues
astowhethershewasthemanuscript’suniquescribeoronlyitsmajorone1.
Butthisdebateobscuresherclaimtobethecontrollingintelligencebehindall
thehandsinvolvedintheproductionofthismanuscript2,whetherornotshe
personallytranscribedeachandeveryword.Christineinsistsuponthisinthe
PrologueadreçantalaReinethatshecomposedexpresslyforthiscollection.To
theQueenshepresentsherbook,inwhich,shesays,thereisnothing,whether
initspicturesorinitstext,thatshehasnotconceivedintheIpurethought’
("penseepure")thatismanifestinthestylegiventoherbyGodandbyNa-
ture3.FromthiswecaninferthatthebookissignedbyChristine,itsultimate
1GilbertOuy,ChristineRenoetInèsVillela-Petit,AlbumChristinedePizan,Turnhout,
Brepols,2012(Texte,Codex&Contexte).ThediscussioncentersuponwhethertheCentbalades
d’amantetdedamewastranscribedbyChristineorbysomeoneelse.SeeJamesLaidlaw,"Who
copiedtheQueen’sManuscript(London,BL,Harley4431)?",thisvolume,p.13-18.
2Theclassicarticleontheroleofthemanuscriptmastermindorconceptualizer(concepteur)
isbyBeatBrenk,"Letexteetl’imagedanslaIViedessaintsauMoyenAge’:rôleduconcepteuret
rôledupeintre",Texteetimage.ActesduColloqueinternationaldeChantilly(October13-15,1982),
Paris,LesBellesLettres,1984,p.31-40.Forarecentdiscussionoftheactivityofoneconceptual-
izer,seeJ.LoriWalters,"Thefootonwhichhelimps:JeanGersonandtheRehabilitationofJean
deMeuninArsenal3339",DigitalPhilology:AJournalofMedievalCultures,1.1,2012,p.110-138,
atp.131,n.5.
3Houiln’ariens,/Enhistoiren’enescripture/Quen’ayeenmapenséepure/Prisoûstile
quejedetiens/Duseulsentementqueretiens/DesdonsdeDieuetdeNature”(fol.3r:02-07).
