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This thesis is concerned with the supervised manuscripts of the works of Christine de Pizan (ca 1364-ca 1430), the first female author who could make a living from the products of her pen. During her long and prolific career as an author, she composed numerous works for noble and royal patrons of France, which were made into manuscripts by Parisian scribes and illuminators. Scholars have argued that Christine supervised the production of these manuscripts. Moreover, on several occasions the hypothesis has been raised that Christine also copied several of them herself, thus acting as scribe X alongside two other scribes, called P and R. The aim of this thesis is twofold: firstly, to gain a better understanding of the production process of the supervised manuscripts of Christine de Pizan's works and of the role played by the author; secondly, to develop and test a new methodology for distinguishing between scribal hands in medieval manuscripts. An account of Christine de Pizan's life and a survey of all surviving supervised manuscripts of her works clearly show that she had extensive knowledge of how they were made. Monotextual manuscripts of her works were often produced in series, in an attempt to economise and speed up the production process. The manuscripts of Christine's collected works show a production and editing process that resembles modern-day printing-on-demand. This thesis further demonstrates the use and success of the Scribal Fingerprint, a new and objective method of distinguishing between scribal hands that consists of three palaeographical core differentiators and two additional differentiators. A Scribal Fingerprint examination of the handwriting in MS Harley 4431, the most recent of the four surviving manuscripts containing Christine's collected works, generates highly heterogeneous differentiator values for the thirteen folios that were analysed. This analysis is combined with an examination executed by GIWIS, an innovative computer application for handwriting analysis. Both strngly suggest that MS Harley 4431, thought by some scholars to have been transcribed entirely by scribe X, was in fact copied by more than one scribe.

Aucun manuscrit d’Ogier le Danois en prose ne nous est parvenu. Nous en conservons néanmoins les trois premiers imprimés : Lyon, Jean de Vingle, 1496 ; Paris, « pour » Antoine Vérard, s.d. ; Paris, Le Petit Laurens, s.d. L’objectif de la thèse est de fournir la première édition critique de cette prose, à partir de l’exemplaire de Paris de l’édition « pour » Vérard, conservé à la BnF. Le texte édité est assorti des variantes offertes par les deux autres témoins, de notes, d’un glossaire détaillé, d’un index des noms propres et d’une liste des expressions proverbiales. La lecture du texte est préparée par une introduction qui traite les points suivants : étude des trois premiers imprimés (description, classement, choix de l’imprimé de base) ; Antoine Vérard ; sources de la prose ; postérité de la prose, à savoir les éditions du XVIe siècle (présentation et classement) et les éditions et traductions ultérieures ; établissement du texte ; étude de la langue (phonétique et graphies, morphologie, syntaxe, lexique), caractéristique du moyen français et marquée par quelques traits dialectaux du Nord et de l’Est ; analyse du texte ; enfin, étude littéraire visant notamment à évaluer le travail de réécriture opéré par le prosateur à partir de sa source (le remaniement en alexandrins daté du milieu du XIVe siècle) et à analyser le style de l’auteur, typique de l’« écriture flamboyante » du XVe siècle. / No manuscript of Ogier le Danois in prose became known to us. However, we conserve the three first printed editions : Lyon, Jean de Vingle, 1496 ; Paris, « pour » Antoine Vérard, s.d. ; Paris, Le Petit Laurens, s.d. The aim of the thesis is to provide the first critical edition of this prose from the exemplary of Paris from Vérard’s edition, preserved in the BnF. The revised text is presented with variants given by the other two printed editions, notes, a glossary, an index of proper nouns and a list of proverbial phrases. The reading of the texte is preparing by an introduction that deals with these following points : study of the three first printed editions (description, classification, selection of one exemplary, revision of the text) ; Antoine Vérard ; prose’s sources ; prose’s posterity with the editions dating from the XVIth century (presentation and classification) and the later editions and traductions ; revision of the text ; linguistic study (phonetic and written forms, morphology, syntax, vocabulary), charactéristic of middle french, with some dialectal traits from the North and the East ; analysis of the story ; finally, literary study aiming in particular at assessing the rewriting work made by the prose writer from the source (the poem in alexandrine dating from the XIVth century) and the style of the author, typical of the flamboyant writing of the XVIth century.