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English Introduction · Branch 1226 of 1495
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record
p. 1226Scan 525; printed 417; sequence 425; image block109-source-525.png. Complete body and seven marginal containers. Actual heading MEMB. 2. SUBSETC. 1. retained, followed by useful, pleasant and honourable objects. Preserve differences over the heart and over fear in the margin versus love in the body.
Scan 526; printed 418; sequence 426; image block109-source-526.png. Complete body and five marginal containers. Wealth, gifts, conditional friendship and Timon. Preserve Ovid placant and Burton’s separate English God/good turns adaptation, and Juvenal’s altered line.
Scan 527; printed 419; sequence 427; image block109-source-527.png. Body through in not providing for his family, completing Member 2 Subsection 1, with margins s, t and u. Preserve Horace Desinit and 1 Timothy 1.8. Exclude actual SUSECT. 2. heading and subsequent body and margins x, y and z, all reserved for 110.
Opening words: This twofold division of Love, Origen likewise followes in his Comment on the Canticles,
Closing words: in not providing for his family.
Passages DJR-110-01 to DJR-110-51
Source page labels: 419–424 (sequence 427–432). Scan pages: 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532.
Scan 527; printed 419; sequence 427; image block109-source-527.png. From the actual heading SUSECT. 2. Pleasant objects of Love through the remaining body and margins x, y and z. Earlier body and margins s, t and u belong to 109. Heading omission of B retained.
Scan 528; printed 420; sequence 428; image block110-source-528.png. Complete body and twelve marginal containers. Pleasant objects, attraction, likeness, familiarity and mutual offices. Retain both adjacent markers before Thessalus, and Julius Flaccus in the long marginal note.
Scan 529; printed 421; sequence 429; image block110-source-529.png. Complete body and five marginal containers. Praise, kinship and erotic love complete Subsection 2. Actual heading SUBSECT. 3. Honest objects of Love begins the next subsection; the running head is not its start. Jet/amber and direction of attraction differ in body and margin.
Scan 530; printed 422; sequence 430; image block110-source-530.png. Complete body and six marginal containers. Flattery, inward virtue, eloquence and bodily beauty. Retain biblical locators, Eurymone, and the body/soul discrepancy in the Alcibiades comparison.
Scan 531; printed 423; sequence 431; image block110-source-531.png. Complete body and fourteen marginal containers, including the two marginal continuations along the bottom. Philosophia, patrū and devincentur checked in enlarged images. Calvisius, Magdalen, Q. Cincinnatus and other substantive readings retained and explained.
Scan 532; printed 424; sequence 432; image block110-source-532.png. Body through and as so many Geryons to be united into one, with nine marginal containers f, g, i, k, inscription dagger, l, Stobaeus asterisk, Solinus dagger and m. Preserve the Sibylline line and three-line Stobaeus quotation. Exclude For the nature of true friendship, its Statius verse and margin n, reserved for 111.
Opening words: SUSECT. 2. Pleasant objects of Love.
Closing words: and as so many Geryons to be united into one.
Passages DJR-111-01 to DJR-111-47
Source page labels: 424–429 (sequence 432–437). Scan pages: 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537.
Scan 532; printed 424; sequence 432; image block110-source-532.png. Begin For the nature of true friendship, its two-line Latin verse and marginal n Statius. All preceding body and margin m belong to 110.
Scan 533; printed 425; sequence 433; image block110-source-533.png. Complete body and marginal text. Friendship, memorials, patronage and false friendship. Ten Burton footnotes include two portions of a continuous Pliny margin attached to separate body markers. The Giovio margin continues across the bottom.
Scan 534; printed 426; sequence 434; image block110-source-534.png. Complete body and seven marginal notes. Finish Member 2 Subsection 3, then actual heading MEMB. 3 Charity. Retain unmasked, Psalm 37.5 and the equant circle. Continue the final sentence on the next page.
Scan 535; printed 427; sequence 435; image block111-source-535.png. Complete body and eight marginal notes. Natural, patriotic and chosen affection; the two Ovid couplets; both nine-line Spenser stanzas. The asterisk before Amor laudis has no separate recoverable marginal text and is retained as a literal marker.
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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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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.
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