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Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

1651 English with a close modern English rendering

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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record

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Scan 493; printed 385; sequence 393; image block103-source-493.png. Complete body and seven margins y,z,a,b,c,d,e, including y continuation and bottom z,a,b. Preserve Aphorisms6.11 despite wording also resembling6.21. Preserve differing body/margin phlebotomy arguments. Include Subsection3 Preparatives and Purgers heading, Augeas allusion, preparatives and beginning of gentle purgatives.

Scan 494; printed 386; sequence 394; image block103-source-494.png. Complete body and twelve margins f,g,h,asterisk,i,dagger,k,m,n,o,p,q; include o continuation and bottom p,q. Keep apparently displaced m,n attachments and full reply-to-Aubert passage. Include two Latin recipes with ounce/drachm signs and all quantities, preserving original line units. Keep Hankshius name, quotations and separate English glosses.

Scan 495; printed 387; sequence 395; image block103-source-495.png. Complete body and eleven margins s,t,u,x,y,z,a,dagger,b,c,d, including dagger continuation and bottom b,c,d. Include third recipe. Retain fifty doubled to101, body/margin egg differences, Anthony1600 and Cap.1/Adfinemlibri. End Subsection3 at Thus they contend and rail...I proceed. All495complete.

Opening words: MEMB. 3. Chirurgicall remedies.

Closing words: Thus they contend and rail, and every Mart write books pro and con, & adhuc sub judice lis est, let them agree as they will, I proceed.

Passages DJR-104-01 to DJR-104-46

Source page labels: 388–392 (sequence 396–400). Scan pages: 496, 497, 498, 499, 500.

Scan 496; printed 388; sequence 396; image block103-source-496.png. Complete body beginning SUBSECT.4. Averters. and12 margins, including bottom p,q. Preserve body Byarus/margin Bayerus and printed Baleni; treatment of caution, cupping and beginning Salvianus.

Scan 497; printed 389; sequence 397; image block103-source-497.png. Complete body and9 margins, including bottom continuation of u and x. Preserve unmatched body y,z as superscript characters. Include Subsection5heading and openingcordials/wine; printed Plutarch7question12 retained.

Scan 498; printed 390; sequence 398; image block104-source-498.png. Complete body and11 marginalcontainers. Preserve full MattioliLatin, Odyss.A, Judges9.12, 180days andHester18. EnglishdaggerAthenians/Germans retained with uncertainattachmentrecorded. Include Horace andTibullusdisplayedLatin plusBurtoncouplet.

Scan 499; printed 391; sequence 399; image block104-source-499.png. Complete body and10 marginalcontainers. Preserve sourceSeneca1.15, adaptations andEnglishglosses, HoracepatchworkLatin andBurtonverse, GreekAnacreonwithmargin26, Pliny14.5/pernitiosus. Theocritusp marginbelongsbody500butincludedhere.

Scan 500; printed 392; sequence 400; image block104-source-500.png. Firstbodyparagraph only, completing Mattioliwarning and wine discussion. Include upper q,r,s margins. Stop after Wine soberly used, may be very good. China roots and all followingbody, t,u,y,z,a,b,c margins reserved105.

Opening words: SUBSECT. 4. Averters.

Closing words: But to determine with Laurentius c. 8. de melan. wine is bad for mad men, and such as are troubled with heat in their inner parts or brains; but to melancholy, which is cold (as most is) Wine soberly used, may be very good.

Passages DJR-105-01 to DJR-105-50

Source page labels: 392–396 (sequence 400–404). Scan pages: 500, 501, 502, 503, 504.

Scan 500; printed 392; sequence 400; image block104-source-500.png. Begin second body paragraph, China roots, after104wine conclusion. Include remaining body through bezoar testimony continued501 and all seven lower margins t,u,y,z,a,b,c. Upper q,r,s belong104. First displayedrecipe preserved; no c marker before Manardus in opening paragraph.

Scan 501; printed 393; sequence 401; image block104-source-501.png. Complete body and six marginal containers d,e,f,g,g,h. Unanchored f placed with ram recipe introduction; repeated g containers remain distinct. Include second displayed recipe, all ram-head directions and both three-day/fourteen-day periods. End with Latin olfactu & potu continued502.

Scan 502; printed 394; sequence 402; image block104-source-502.png. Complete body and thirteen marginal containers: opening dagger,i,k,l,m,n,o,hypericum dagger,Philes asterisk,Martial dagger,p,q,r. Include bottom extensions. Preserve lacte Nymphææ, sanitate pristina and c.1. Martial line remains embedded in paragraph. Mother story continues503.

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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.

About Diotimos Editions

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.

Rights

Burton’s historical text is in the public domain. The modern English rendering, introduction, notes, and editorial matter are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and appear with the site owner’s permission. The complete supplied PDF, EPUB, Word, and Markdown files remain available unchanged. The PDF and Word edition preserve the original parallel page layout.