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It was common when manually copying manuscripts, for the scribes
to skip a line, a stanza, or even a page.
In this chart,
each manuscript is represented by a horizontal green bar.
Black lines indicate which verses, stanzas and passages are missing from each copy.
We see right away that manuscript Px includes only the first few stanzas of the poem
and that Qq is missing the first line.
The most important revelation from this chart is that Pb and Qh are both missing
the exact same two contiguous lines.
This suggests either that one was copied from the other,
or that they were both copied from a common exemplar.
The close relationship between these two manuscripts is born out in the
table of Levenshtein averages.
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