update on document collection
Sent a long email to all three about the reference file. Only a five still missing, from my count.
Besides trying to chase them down, my "chasse aux documents" has changed a bit, with things to transcribe at all three libraries. Photography may be possible at the Bnf (only), but that is always decided by individual librarians when the book is in hand. So, by library:
Mazarine: Remainder of "A une femme mariée" in the Cabinet Satyrique. I may well be able to find a later edition or editions so that Martin would have the long dreamed-of hundred lines of verse to compare.
Bnf: Leanna reminded me that we're missing the last pages of Sonnet 1621. I'll also go after the "Brief discours sur la réformation des mariages", 16pp. in one of those 19th-c. editions ("Variétés historiques"). I've long wanted to include it as an exemplary 1614 mixed verse and prose text.
I would love to be able to photograph the "petit roman" "L'épouse fugitive" which I found several years ago at the Bnf, and which they refuse to digitize for us for the usual reason: binding too fragile. Any work on this text could be saved for a future time when I or we have time to mess with it. I won't try to transcribe it, so if they won't let me photograph it, I'll abandon it for the foreseeable future.
Last but not least, at the Arsenal, the 7th and 8th (final) parts of "Les Agréements et les chagrins du mariage." I think they will digitize the missing Parts 3 and 4, but they've already told me the binding on this volume is too fragile. It's 180 small pages with large print. This is really the final touch to the polemical part of the anthology, so I hate to give up on it.