in the scriptorium

After printing out chapters I, II and IV, which are the ones that exist (and in the course of which one is obliged to change the ink cartridge), one wants to escape the balance of the work in a textafræðilegt and codicological direction. Oh to be able to write a brief note mourning, decorously, the unfortunate loss of the middle quires as well as the beginning and end of the work at some unknown point in the manuscript's transmission, expand a bit on what chapter III must have looked like based on the internal evidence of the surviving text, add a few thoughts on the probable nature of the prologue and epilogue, considering what is known about the prologues and epilogues of the genre as a whole, and call it a day.