This is a large-scale scholarly edition of BnF MS fr. 25458, the personal manuscript of Charles, duc d’Orléans—an extraordinary late-medieval lyric collection that gathers Charles’s own French poems alongside works by poets in his household and wider circle (family, friends, peers, and visitors to his court at Blois).
The volume is designed as a definitive modern replacement for Pierre Champion’s influential 1923 edition. It presents a modern critical text grounded in codicological research on how the manuscript was compiled, and it includes the first complete facing-page English translation of the collection, making the material accessible to scholars and advanced students across medieval French/English literary studies, manuscript studies, and cultural history.
