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F2 Preparation — First Results (2026-08-10)

A. Works census: explicit source-work mentions across all five volumes

(counts of name/title mentions; Vol I-II from OCR, III-V from embedded text layers)

Work / author I II III IV V total
Shakespeare (name) 39 5 0 2 6 52
The Tempest 7 15 25 0 3 50
Henry histories (IV-VIII) 14 14 6 10 1 45
Peele 9 10 0 1 2 22
Burton / Anatomy of Melancholy 14 2 2 1 2 21
Spenser / Faerie Queene 7 9 0 1 2 19
Hamlet 3 1 2 10 1 17
Shepheardes Calender 3 7 0 4 3 17
Greene 4 3 1 1 2 11
First Folio (as term) 5 0 0 0 1 6
Othello 0 4 1 1 0 6
Troilus & Cressida 2 1 0 2 0 5
Bacon Essays 5 0 0 0 0 5
Novum Organum 4 4
Marlowe 0 0 2 1 1 4
Richard II/III 0 2 0 2 0 4
Macbeth, Lear, R&J, J.Caesar, Advancement, Lucrece, Iliad (1-3 each)

Reading: consistent with the published author-level list (Shakespeare, Peele, Burton, Spenser, Greene, Marlowe + Bacon's works) and ADDS structure: The Tempest and the Henry histories dominate; Vol III (Spanish Armada) leans hardest on The Tempest.

B. Anchor-candidate mining

15,535-word vocabulary across the five volumes; 8,702 words occur only 1-2 times. Top-ranked rare anchors (archaic morphology, high destination-pinning power) saved to anchor_candidates.json. Examples: o'ermastereth, transportance, considerance, observancie, overbloweth, predominance, quick'neth.

C. New Source->Destination rows seeded from anchors (high confidence; spot-verify)

# Source (Owen) Anchor Destination (candidate) Basis
4 Vol V p.142: "O be thou my Charon, And give me swift transportance to those fields" transportance Troilus & Cressida III.ii (Troilus to Pandarus: "like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks... be thou my Charon, And give me swift transportance") verbatim run; "transportance" unique-class
5 Vol II p.194: "dark night strangles the travailling lamp. Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame" predominance Macbeth II.iv (Ross: "dark night strangles the travelling lamp. Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame") verbatim run

Note row 4: THIRD Troilus & Cressida destination in the specimen set — T&C is emerging as a heavily-mined source, far beyond its 5 explicit mentions in the census.

D. Corpus status

COMPLETE: all five volumes now machine-readable in Kaggle/ (I-II tesseract OCR; III-V clean embedded text layers extracted this session, ~885KB total for III-V).