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English Introduction · Branch 1238 of 1495
Source Record
The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record
p. 1238Scan 643; printed 535; sequence 543; image block132-source-643.png. Complete body and five margins. Preserve liquidâque and Thalamis; enlarged detail confirms Mart. Epig. 5. Record Virgil male beloved and barber-name difference.
Scan 644; printed 536; sequence 544; image block132-source-644.png. Complete body and all eight margins. Grooming gives way to music and dancing. Record Callistratus/Daedalus conflation, wedding details and Lucian redistribution of torch/song motifs.
Scan 645; printed 537; sequence 545; image block132-source-645.png. Complete body and eight margins. Love and Death, elderly dancers and poets, and start of the cursed-dancers story. Assign reversed Gellius and Josephus margins to their respective stories. Pontano margin reads Tom. 2. Ant. Dialogo.
Scan 646; printed 538; sequence 546; image block132-source-646.png. Complete body and nine margins. Preserve all three and Amphitomantia. Record displaced Hyginus, E Græco and Patrizi references; retain both Pliny and Gerbelius citations with painting story.
Scan 647; printed 539; sequence 547; image block132-source-647.png. Opening conclusion of painting story and Sicyon’s excellence through before all the Cities in Greece. Stop before Apollo. All three margins on this page remain for 133; first u margin concerns symbols in continuing argument.
Opening words: In a word, I may say thus much of them all, let them be never so clownish
Closing words: before all the Cities in Greece.
Passages DJR-133-01 to DJR-133-76
Source page labels: 539–544 (sequence 547–552). Scan pages: 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652.
Scan 647; printed 539; sequence 547; image block133-source-647.png. Start Apollo immediately after Sicyon sentence ending 132. Include all remaining body and all three margins. First u margin on symbols assigned by subject; printed author Fransus retained as uncertain.
Scan 648; printed 540; sequence 548; image block133-source-648.png. Complete body and ten margins including unmarked S. R. 1600. Keep comic pastoral verse and song refrains. Retain Mat. 1.47. and explain apparent reference to Matthew 14:7.
Scan 649; printed 541; sequence 549; image block133-source-649.png. Complete body and seven margins. Preserve apparent crossing of Haedus and Aeneas Sylvius margins at their printed anchors. Include Member 5 and Subsection 1 headings.
Scan 650; printed 542; sequence 550; image block133-source-650.png. Complete body and fourteen margins. Keep Propertius non habet variant and historical humoral medical claims. Record R. T. margin/body marker discrepancy.
Scan 651; printed 543; sequence 551; image block133-source-651.png. Complete body and thirteen margins. Retain car. 56. as printed in Amatus citation, with explanation, and x before Gentleman. Keep separate Latin and Burton English verse versions. Medical and chronicle sources remain for full collation.
Scan 652; printed 544; sequence 552; image block133-source-652.png. Include body and ten margins through Such Acts and Scenes hath this Tragecomœdy of love. Stop before Member 6. Its heading, first prose and final Virgil Aeneid 6 margin belong to 134.
Opening words: Apollo was the first inventer of Physick, Divination, Oracles
Closing words: Such Acts and Scenes hath this Tragecomœdy of love.
Passages DJR-134-01 to DJR-134-57
Source page labels: 544–549 (sequence 552–557). Scan pages: 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657.
Scan 652; printed 544; sequence 552; image block134-source-652.png. Begin Member 6, Subsection 1 heading, then Although it be controverted by some. Include final Virgil margin; all earlier body and margins belong to 133. Keep Latin verse and separate Burton English couplet.
Scan 653; printed 545; sequence 553; image block134-source-653.png. Complete body and seven margins. Preserve Ovid margin lib. 3. remed. as printed. Translate Buchanan adaptation to the goddesses and preserve its altered pronouns. Retain Horace variants.
Scan 654; printed 546; sequence 554; image block134-source-654.png. Complete body and eleven margins. Include violent Gordonius remedy and confirm printed fœtere; distinguish historical claims from editorial explanation. Preserve Rer. Sam. and explain apparent Reg. San. abbreviation. Keep Ovid rocket versus Burton eryngo difference.
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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.
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.
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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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