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The Compendium and Collection of Opposites. Cristal et Clarie, D’Amour and the Arsenal 3516 ManuscriptThe 3516 manuscript in the Arsenal Library gives us the specific example of the same text being transcribed twice within the same collection. This is the work of Robert de Blois, D’Amour, dating from the mid-13th century. The verses of this didactic poem on the art of love initially seem to be an individual piece, but they are then integrated word for word and surreptitiously into the prologue of the romance of Cristal et Clarie. The phenomenon of undeclared citation, of “implicitation”, is typical of this anonymous romance from the end of the 13th century, cheerfully carrying out a form of collage. What is the implication behind repetition of the same verses within the same collection, just a few works apart? This paper explores these issues by looking at intertextuality, the questions of editorial choice and of compendiums of heterogeneous compositions.