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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record
p. 1248Scan 752; printed 640; sequence 652; image block152-source-752.png. All body through and yet all Idolaters, with three margins z,dagger,star. Preserve incomplete Lib3 cap for Pliny, pointing to30.13 in Editor note. Keep displayed Devil/Jove verse. Include all of Gerbel’s long margin. Exclude The Mahometans sentence beginning at foot and continuing onto753.
Opening words: This likewise should we now have done, had not our will been corrupted
Closing words: and yet all Idolaters.
Passages DJR-153-01 to DJR-153-42
Source page labels: 640–645 (sequence 652–657). Scan pages: 752, 753, 754, 755, 756, 757.
Scan 752; printed 640; sequence 652; image block152-source-752.png. Only final The Ma-; the word Mahometans continues on753. All752 margins already included152.
Scan 753; printed 641; sequence 653; image block153-source-753.png. All body and nine margins a,b,star,c,d,e,f,dagger,star. Preserve fifth-part estimate distinct from preceding sixth-part estimate; Lapland quotation continues onto754.
Scan 754; printed 642; sequence 654; image block153-source-754.png. All body and one star margin. Retain Subsection2 heading and full synopsis; opening biblical sentence continues onto755. Source Job42.cap7.5 identified as42:7 in modern with note.
Scan 755; printed 643; sequence 655; image block153-source-755.png. All body and eight margins g,h,i,k,l,m,dagger,n, including three entries across the foot. Retain full lists of cult names and opaque biblical number string. Greek loimios read from contracted type. Last sentence continues onto756.
Scan 756; printed 644; sequence 656; image block153-source-756.png. All body and six margins o,dagger,p,q,dagger,dagger. Two displayed two-line Latin verses retained. Unmatched dagger before doctrine of Stoicks recorded. Preserve source Plutarch narrative with explanation of divergences.
Scan 757; printed 645; sequence 657; image block153-source-757.png. All body through the two chief props and supporters of a well governed commonwealth: and all eleven margins r,s,t,u,x,y,z,a,b,dagger,dagger. Stop before but most of them are but Machiavellians. Source Augustine4.9 identified as4.27 in modern with note.
Opening words: The Mahometans extend themselves over the great Turks dominions in Europe
Closing words: the two chief props and supporters of a well governed commonwealth:
Passages DJR-154-01 to DJR-154-41
Source page labels: 645–650 (sequence 657–662). Scan pages: 757, 758, 759, 760, 761, 762.
Scan 757; printed 645; sequence 657; image block153-source-757.png. Only final clause beginning but most of them are but Machiavellians, through for; continues on758. All757 margins already included153.
Scan 758; printed 646; sequence 658; image block154-source-758.png. All body and ten margins c,d,dagger,e,star,dagger,f,dagger,dagger,g. Solus Rex confirmed in enlarged scan. The f body marker is indistinct; its note accompanies the classical underworld catalogue. Preserve Polybius divergence and Caesar Lib.16; modern notes identify primary parallels. Last sentence continues onto759.
Scan 759; printed 647; sequence 659; image block154-source-759.png. All body and six margins h,i,k,dagger,l,m. Preserve printed perindesinentes and use Burton’s English restatement to interpret it. Source quotation from Curtius differs from the primary passage and adds women. Final catalogue continues onto760.
Scan 760; printed 648; sequence 660; image block154-source-760.png. All body and seven margins dagger,n,star,a,dagger,p,q. One single-line verse and one two-line verse. Lucian attribution retained as unresolved; cotus retained in Horace margin. Final sentence continues onto761.
Scan 761; printed 649; sequence 661; image block154-source-761.png. All body and ten margins dagger,r,s,t,u,star,dagger,dagger,star,dagger. Retain 200000l and Latin restatement, as well as institutional counts and wealth estimates. Final sentence continues onto762.
Scan 762; printed 650; sequence 662; image block154-source-762.png. Body through and so well for their own advantage can they play their parts. All six margins star,dagger,x,y,z,a included. Stop before And if it were not yet enough; heretics and false prophets begin155.
Opening words: but most of them are but Machiavellians, counterfeits only for politicall ends
Closing words: and so well for their own advantage can they play their parts.
Passages DJR-155-01 to DJR-155-46
Source page labels: 650–655 (sequence 662–667). Scan pages: 762, 763, 764, 765, 766, 767.
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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.
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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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