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) |