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English Introduction · Branch 1246 of 1495
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record
p. 1246Scan 729; printed 617; sequence 629; image block148-source-729.png. All body and seven margins e,dagger Leland,dagger Epigram,f,g,h,i. Printed arrant honest woman retained. Sulpicia couplet and Ariosto octave preserved; modern translation resolves the scabbard syntax with a note. Sirach commentary continues730.
Scan 730; printed 618; sequence 630; image block148-source-730.png. All body and five margins k,l,dagger Martial,m,n. Preserve Latin and separate English Ovid versions, and closing Ariosto couplet. Printed they self, accepted and Advoury retained in original; modern meanings explained. Final Hierome catchword omitted.
Opening words: MEMB. 3.
Closing words: We husbands of our wives should be betraied.
Passages DJR-149-01 to DJR-149-53
Source page labels: 619–624 (sequence 631–636). Scan pages: 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736.
Scan 731; printed 619; sequence 631; image block149-source-731.png. All body, beginning Hierome holds, and ten margins o, star, p, q, dagger, r, dagger, dagger, s, t. Last Bilia passage continues onto732.
Scan 732; printed 620; sequence 632; image block149-source-732.png. All body and seven margins u, x, y, z, a, b, c. Eumenes narrative continues onto733.
Scan 733; printed 621; sequence 633; image block149-source-733.png. All body and six marginal entries: one starred Eumenes note with three paragraphs including unmarked continuations; d Harington; dagger Plutarch; dagger Plautus; unmarked Idem; repeated d T.Daniel. Last sentence continues onto734.
Scan 734; printed 622; sequence 634; image block149-source-734.png. All body and eight marginal entries e, f, g, star Sleidan, h, star Bibliander, i, star Lumina. Include both subsection heading units. Last paragraph continues onto735.
Scan 735; printed 623; sequence 635; image block149-source-735.png. All body and eleven marginal entries dagger Alberti, k, l, m, dagger Navig, n, o, p, q, r, s. Include bottom continuation Poggius Florentino and long r and s notes. Last sentence continues onto736.
Scan 736; printed 624; sequence 636; image block149-source-736.png. Opening continuation only, through But these are most part Pagan, impious, irreligious, absurd, and ridiculous devices. Include two margins: star Cato and t Wecker. Exclude following paragraph The best means and all following marginalia beginning a Citatur à Gellio.
Opening words: Hierome holds, uxor impudica servari non potest, pudica non debet
Closing words: But these are most part Pagan, impious, irreligious, absurd, and ridiculous devices.
Passages DJR-150-01 to DJR-150-66
Source page labels: 624–630 (sequence 636–642). Scan pages: 736, 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742.
Scan 736; printed 624; sequence 636; image block150-source-736.png. Begin at The best means to avoid these and like inconveniences. Include all following body and six margins a, b, c, star, dagger, t. Exclude the previous paragraph ending ridiculous devices and its two margins, already in149. End-page English Sophocles verse continues onto737.
Scan 737; printed 625; sequence 637; image block150-source-737.png. All body and nine margins u, star, dagger, dagger, star, star, x, y, z. Include full long y note ending enectam excitant. Final Ambrose/Augustine sentence continues onto738.
Scan 738; printed 626; sequence 638; image block150-source-738.png. All body and ten margins a, dagger, e, b, dagger, star, star, c, unmarked Lib.I.Miles., star. Preserve Calabect., arænarum and Vetustina readings. Guevara sentence continues onto739.
Scan 739; printed 627; sequence 639; image block150-source-739.png. All body and six margins e, f, g, h, i, k. Include long h travel margin and the unmarked Plutarch ending within i. Chaucer quotation follows on740.
Scan 740; printed 628; sequence 640; image block150-source-740.png. All body and five margins star, dagger, l, m, dagger. Include black-letter Chaucer verse, all Latin verses and m couplet; m anchored at matrizare by context. Juvenal marginal attribution attached to Scilicet expectas, not the following Pasiphae couplet. Justina introduction continues onto741.
Scan 741; printed 629; sequence 641; image block150-source-741.png. All body and eight margins n, dagger, dagger, o, star, dagger, q, dagger. Include Justina Latin and separate English version. Last paragraph continues onto742.
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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.
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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