Manuscript/Print-Edition Orders and Possible Compositional Orders of Malory's "Works"

Winchester MS / Caxton-Vinaver-Field Eds. Traditional "Tale Turnith/Spekith/Tellith" Trans./Page Authority-Claiming "French Book Sayeth" Trans./Page
"Kyng Arthur" 174 pages "Sankgreal" 1/17 "Sangreal" 0/185
"Roman War"  61 pages "Roman War"  1/31 "Roman War"  0/61
"Lancelot"  35 pages "Trystram"  1/119 "Trystram" 1/53
"Gareth"  71 pages "Kyng Arthur"  0/174 "Kyng Arthur" 1/44
"Trystram" 476 pages "Lancelot"  0/35 "Lancelot" 1/18
"Sankgreal"  185 pages "Gareth"  0/71 "Gareth" 1/11
"Lancelot & Guenevere"  110 pages "Lancelot & Guenevere"  0/110 "Lancelot & Guenevere" 1/10
"Morte" proper  100 pages "Morte"  0/100 "Morte"  1/8

Transitions Emphasizing Fate ("Hit befell") vs. Transitions Emphasizing Comparative Deeds and Outcomes ("Now leve we X and turne we to Y")

"Fated" Trans./Page "NLW&TW" Trans. /Page
"Sankgreal" 1/8 (copied) "Sankgreal" 1/185
"Morte"  1/9  (added) "Kyng Arthur"  1/44
"Kyng Arthur"  1/12 "Morte" 1/25
"Trystram"  1/16 "Roman War"  1/16
"Gareth"  1/24 "Lancelot & Guenevere" 1/16
"Lancelot" 1/35" "Trystram"  1/11
"Roman War" 1/61 (added) "Gareth"  1/8
"Lancelot & Guenevere" 1/110 (added) "Lancelot"  1/5

"Month of May" or "Reverdie" Anxiety Gestures in Narrative Transition vs. Usages of "Paramours" and "Love Peramours"

"Month of May" Transitions "Paramour" and "Love Peramours" Usages
"Sankgreal"  0 "Roman War"  0
"Lancelot"  0 "Morte"  0
"Gareth"  0 "Sankgreal" 1/185 (unique usages translates "ge vos amii outre")
"Roman War" 1 (copied) "Gareth" 1/71 (unique usage: Arthur offers choice: marry her or "have [her] as peramour"
"Kyng Arthur" 1 (added-Gawain seduced by Ettarde) "Trystram" 1/48 (all 10 follow Prose Tristan)
"Trystram" 1 (added-T meets Palomides who declares love for Isode "peramoures" "Kyng Arthur" 1/44 (all 4 added to Suite du Merlin)
"Morte"  1  (added-introduces destruction of the Round Table by "grete angur and unhappe" "Lancelot & Guenevere  1/37  (all 3 describe Elayne le Blanke, whom Lancelot refuses)
"Lancelot & Guenevere" 5 (all added on two successive pages [1119-20] introducing the alleged "sex scene") "Lancelot" 1/9  (all 4 are directed at Lancelot who denies or refuses the relationship)