Cover; MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM; Title; Copyright; Dedication; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; The Book of the Middle Ages; Medieval Romance Paleography: A Brief Introduction; Secular Manuscript Illumination in France; The Introduction to the Lai de l'Ombre: Half a Century Later; The Problem of Contamination in Prose Texts; The Art of Editing Lyric Texts; Principles of Textual Emendation (with an Appendix: Lancelot's Two Steps); Transcription Errors