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English Introduction · Branch 1213 of 1495
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record
p. 1213Scan 412; printed 304; sequence 312; image block86-source-412.png. All body and nine margins: dagger Lucretia,l,m,n,o,asterisk Cap61,asterisk Universa,p,dagger Athenaeus/Jovius. Complete twenty-line Harington poem retained in three aligned groups. Final saltare consueverant continues onto413; catchword tare is excluded. Page seam repaired without duplicating syllables.
Scan 413; printed 305; sequence 313; image block86-source-413.png. All body and fourteen margins: q,r,s,t,u,dagger Sacerdos/Medicus,x,asterisk Loebeus,y,z,a,b,c,asterisk Athenaeus. Footer a continuation vivat retained; b and c and the complete Athenaeus book1 reference transcribed at foot. The right-margin partial Athenaeus repeat is not counted twice. Printed Numerus retained. Final Tis joins their sole exercise on414; footer their is a catchword.
Scan 414; printed 306; sequence 314; image block86-source-414.png. All body and six margins: d,e,dagger Froissart,f,g,hGreek. Completes Subsection4 and Section2 at sorrowfull reckoning in the end. Next SECT is a catchword, not body. Altered Juvenal, Horace and Plautus material retained and explained.
Scan 415; printed 307; sequence 315; image block86-source-415.png. Complete Section3 Member1 Subsection1 heading and all body. Five margins: iCardan,kNullum,asteriskSallust,daggerJob,daggerPliny. Final dolore is divided across415–416 and joined in transcription; footer re is a catchword. Printed Cornelius and Pliny letter13 retained and explained.
Scan 416; printed 308; sequence 316; image block86-source-416.png. Opening continuation through be it as it may, I will essay. Only margins lHorace and mMontaigne in086. All later body, starting Discontents and grievances are either generall or particular, and margins n onward with full footer continuations reserved for087. The running head correctly reads Part2. Printed but by study retained.
Opening words: So did Scipio and Lælius,
Closing words: be it as it may, I will essay.
Passages DJR-087-01 to DJR-087-44
Source page labels: 308–313 (sequence 316–321). Scan pages: 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421.
Scan 416; printed 308; sequence 316; image block86-source-416.png. Begin Discontents and grievances are either generall or particular; and continue to page end. Earlier body and margins l/m belong to086. Eight margins n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u included; s continues across footer, and t/u occur in footer. Last body words If it be join so on417; catchword so is excluded.
Scan 417; printed 309; sequence 317; image block87-source-417.png. Complete body and ten margins x,y,z,a,b,c,d,e,asterisk,f. Note e ends adversata at foot; full asterisk Giovio and f Lipsius notes appear at foot. Keep Seneca maxim plus Burton gloss, Ovid couplet, Horace maxim plus Burton couplet, and full astrology analogy. Footer Yea is a catchword.
Scan 418; printed 310; sequence 318; image block87-source-418.png. Complete body and six margins g,h,i,k,l,m. Horace four-line Latin and Burton separate four-line English retained; note i aligns with next prose. Last for is a catchword; the sentence joins for thee on419. Reading same content again retained.
Scan 419; printed 311; sequence 319; image block87-source-419.png. Complete body and sixteen margins n,o,p,q,r,asterisk,dagger,asterisk,s,t,dagger,u,v,y,asterisk,dagger. Two Camerarius couplets and Boethius four-line verse retained. Boethius body marker x differs from margin v; incorrect book5 reference retained and explained. Printed biblical references126.6/Eccl25.5 retained. Nominal printed311 is between printed310/312; no visible page numeral in this scan. Last contented is split between419/420; catchword ed excluded.
Scan 420; printed 312; sequence 320; image block87-source-420.png. Complete body, including end of Member1 and heading/opening Member2. Eight margins z,a,asteriskJosephus,daggerHomuncio,b,daggerCicero,c,asteriskCamerarius. Printed antitode and Plato lib25 retained. Last parvus is a catchword; actual parvus starts421.
Scan 421; printed 313; sequence 321; image block87-source-421.png. Only opening sentence completion parvus erat, sed magnus erat, &c. yet of incomparable parts all three. No margins from421 included. Next body starts Ignatius Loiola; dagger Ribera note and every later margin/body passage are reserved for088, including long footer continuation. Whole page viewed for boundary context.
Opening words: Discontents and grievances are either generall or particular;
Closing words: yet of incomparable parts all three.
Socrates
Reading The Anatomy of Melancholy · Source Record · Source record
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.About This Reading Edition
Robert Burton’s Anatomy ranges across medicine, philosophy, poetry, religion, and everyday life in its inquiry into melancholy. This complete parallel edition pairs the 1651 English text with a close modern English rendering, preserving the three Partitions, Democritus Junior’s address to the reader, verse, and the historical index.
Historical Text and Translation
The historical text follows the sixth edition, printed at Oxford for Henry Cripps in 1651, using the McGill University Library copy. The supplied edition documents missing printed pages 98–99 supplied from another 1651 copy at the Bavarian State Library. Historical folio labels and their irregularities remain visible; web reader numbers identify reflowed passages and do not claim to reproduce PDF pagination.
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Diotimos Editions prepared the close modern English rendering and editorial matter. All 8,755 original and modern passage pairs remain aligned, with verse breaks, italics, continuations, and linked annotations preserved. Burton’s 6,781 historical notes retain their attribution; 6,895 editorial notes remain distinct. The introduction, Note on the Text, contextual lexicon, indexes, source documentation, and bibliography are included. The engraved frontispiece remains available in the original downloads.
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