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English Introduction · Branch 1252 of 1495
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record
p. 1252Scan 796; printed 684; sequence 696; image block161-source-796.png. All body and seven marginal entries. Horace marginal ode18 confirmed visually; Proverbs7.8 retained with note on7.18. Five displayed verse units across this page and the opening continuation of the English Cyclops stanza. Source Aproyis and Herodotus Lib.1 retained; sentence continues onto797.
Scan 797; printed 685; sequence 697; image block161-source-797.png. Body through when he raved and killed his wife and children; nine marginal entries included. Last star De orbis con.lib.1.cap.7 belongs to the following Postellus passage and remains for162. Lansius long s normalized. Europe24 note attached after Aeneas Sylvius, separate from the preceding quotation reference, to avoid adjacent unreadable note numerals.
Opening words: SUBSECT. 5. Cure of Religious Melancholy.
Closing words: when he raved and killed his wife and children.
Passages DJR-162-01 to DJR-162-51
Source page labels: 685–690 (sequence 697–702). Scan pages: 797, 798, 799, 800, 801, 802.
Scan 797; printed 685; sequence 697; image block162-source-797.png. Begins A milder sort of these Atheisticall spirits there are. Includes remaining body and only the final Postellus margin De orbis con. lib.1.cap.7. All earlier body and nine preceding margins belong to 161.
Scan 798; printed 686; sequence 698; image block162-source-798.png. All body and five marginal entries. Burton’s Selius differs from Martial’s Segius; loose or crossed star and dagger anchors retained and explained. Chrysostom margin reads Ser.30. in5.cap.adEphes., not the OCR reading 9; a parallel occurs in Homily 19 on Ephesians.
Scan 799; printed 687; sequence 699; image block162-source-799.png. All body and seven marginal entries. Lucan’s verse is adapted with Deus and quocunque; the printed wording is retained. Distinctions between spirits, intelligences, nature and necessity preserved.
Scan 800; printed 688; sequence 700; image block162-source-800.png. All body and five marginal entries. Unmarked l.2.Natural.quæst33.39. counted separately and placed with the Seneca discussion in row 31, printed 688–689. Burton’s execution and banishment readings are both retained. Virgil’s Achilles quotation remains inline prose.
Scan 801; printed 689; sequence 701; image block162-source-801.png. All body and six marginal entries. Claudius and margin De ira 16.34 retained, with note identifying Caligula in Seneca. Lucretius cum relligione differs from the primary text sub religione; Latin passage and Burton’s separate English restatement both preserved.
Scan 802; printed 690; sequence 702; image block162-source-802.png. Body through the Frederick report ending ego multo meliorem modum credendi & vivendi ordinarem. Includes nine preceding marginal entries. Excludes To these professed Atheists we may well add and the final Virg. marginal entry, reserved for 163.
Opening words: A milder sort of these Atheisticall spirits there are
Closing words: ego multo meliorem modum credendi & vivendi ordinarem.
Passages DJR-163-01 to DJR-163-43
Source page labels: 690–695 (sequence 702–707). Scan pages: 802, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807.
Scan 802; printed 690; sequence 702; image block163-source-802.png. Begins To these professed Atheists we may well add. Includes the remaining body, the two-line Virgil quotation and only the final Virg. margin. All earlier body and nine preceding marginal entries belong to 162.
Scan 803; printed 691; sequence 703; image block163-source-803.png. All body and six marginal entries. Separate Latin and English restatements retained. The Jerome attribution remains as printed, with the close Ambrose parallel explained.
Scan 804; printed 692; sequence 704; image block163-source-804.png. All body and three marginal entries. Collius and Giaminus retained; the comma in Philippus, Faber Faventinus is preserved pending bibliography. Seneca locator retained without an unverified correction.
Scan 805; printed 693; sequence 705; image block163-source-805.png. All body and three marginal entries. Includes both Subsection 2 headings. Aquinas locator retained and corrected in Editor note. Justin numbers and altered tense preserved and explained.
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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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