Chantilly MS. 472 [Bibliothèque du Château de Chantilly (Musée Condé), Ms 472] is a prime example of the codex as a structuring force in the formation of a narrative cycle. I Produced in the final third of the thirteenth century, MS. 472 contains nine Arthurian verse romances, which appear in the following order: Rigomer, the Atre périlleux, Erec et Enide, Fergus, Hunbaut, the Bel Inconnu, the Vengeance Raguidel, the Chevalier au Lion (Yvain), and the Chevalier de la Charrete (Lancelot). The verse romances are followed by a fragment of the Perlesvaus (in pro se) and several branches of the Roman de Renart. Although the decoration of the manuscript, consisting of titles in red and blue letters and ornamental capitals of several sizes, indicates a unified conception from the outset, the presence of cut-off sheets of paper following many of the works and the lack of explicit for others makes it appear likely that the compiler- conceptualizer assembied the work of five or six largely inattentive scribes at a later time. ... In MS. 472 Gauvain's more amusing qualities are burlesqued in the figure of Renart. The planner presents the majority of the Renart material as illustrative of the war between Renart and Isengrin,12 thereby emphasizing a narrative technique of interlace similar to th at governing the Arthurian corpus in MS. 472. - [Author]

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