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English Introduction · Branch 1251 of 1495
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record
p. 1251Scan 785; printed 673; sequence 685; image block159-source-785.png. All body and nine margins: s, t, u, x, y, z, a, b, star. Sectarian catalogue, Eudo, papal traditions and persecutions. Socrates 3.19 retained although the corresponding argument occurs in 3.23.
Scan 786; printed 674; sequence 686; image block159-source-786.png. All body and three margins: c, dagger, d. Saints, shrines, ritual expense and obedience. Philosophers, 40000 years and Lucilius cor confirmed in scan. Three Latin verse lines retained; separate English adaptation follows on 787.
Scan 787; printed 675; sequence 687; image block159-source-787.png. Only the opening two English verse lines, ending Do they these brazen Images they see. All subsequent body and all marginalia remain for Block 160.
Opening words: In this superstitious row, Jewes for antiquitie may go next to Gentiles
Closing words: Do they these brazen Images they see.
Passages DJR-160-01 to DJR-160-51
Source page labels: 675–680 (sequence 687–692). Scan pages: 787, 788, 789, 790, 791, 792.
Scan 787; printed 675; sequence 687; image block160-source-787.png. Begins And whilst the ruder sort are so carried headlong; opening couplet belongs to 159 and is excluded. All subsequent body and two margins, dagger and e, included. Source transubstantions and mock primo secundo secundarii retained.
Scan 788; printed 676; sequence 688; image block160-source-788.png. All body and three margins, first star, second star and f. Daniel couplet retained in two lines. Horace verse appears within the prose line and remains embedded. Altered Augustine quotation and incorrect marginal title annotated.
Scan 789; printed 677; sequence 689; image block160-source-789.png. All body and four margins g, h, i and k. Source part.8 in Lavater reference, ambiguous Guagnini 22 and Camden folios 242 and 285 retained and flagged. Sectarian reports distinguished from verified history.
Scan 790; printed 678; sequence 690; image block160-source-790.png. Subsection 4 heading and all body; five margins l, m, n, dagger and o. Arnobius note is a separate marginal entry. Demetrius and no marble mines retained with Cyprian parallels explained. Body continues onto 791.
Scan 791; printed 679; sequence 691; image block160-source-791.png. All body and five margins p, q, r, s and star. Busbecq Letter 3 retained though consulted parallel is in Letter 4 and concerns Suleiman. Margin s anchored at As in fasting, as printed, and its anticipation of 792 noted. Final Latin continues onto 792.
Scan 792; printed 680; sequence 692; image block160-source-792.png. Body through and hell it self, the end of Subsection 4; all four marginal entries star, t, dagger and u included. Long English margin preserved in full. Juvenal variants and Magdeburg anecdote annotated. Subsection 5 heading and all following body excluded for 161.
Opening words: And whilst the ruder sort are so carried headlong
Closing words: and hell it self.
Passages DJR-161-01 to DJR-161-64
Source page labels: 680–685 (sequence 692–697). Scan pages: 792, 793, 794, 795, 796, 797.
Scan 792; printed 680; sequence 692; image block161-source-792.png. Begins with Subsection5 heading Cure of Religious Melancholy and To purge the world of Idolatry and superstition. All following body included. All earlier body and every marginal entry on this page belong to160 and are excluded. Crellius is the scan reading.
Scan 793; printed 681; sequence 693; image block161-source-793.png. All body and seven marginal entries. Ovid distich retained in two lines with the printed sequare. Campanella Calcagninus margin and firmamentals worlds preserved. Sentence continues onto794.
Scan 794; printed 682; sequence 694; image block161-source-794.png. All body and six marginal entries. Bernard fragment reads os alia loquens. Sassonia anecdote retains meditation with explanatory note. Rhasis cont.lib.1.cap.9 and marginal negotius retained. Rhazes quotation continues onto795.
Scan 795; printed 683; sequence 695; image block161-source-795.png. All body and four marginal entries. Completes Subsection5 then includes Member2 Subsection1 heading. Juvenal contum retained and distinguished from Cocytum. Three-line Latin Cyclops verse followed by four-line English restatement spanning795–796. Mersenne estimate reads50000.
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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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