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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record
p. 1254Scan 816; printed 704; sequence 716; image block165-source-816.png. Opening continuation through the end of Subsection 4, some reject all, and will not be eased. Includes four marginal entries e, f, g, h. Excludes the complete Subsection 5 heading, subsequent body and marginal entries i, k, l, m, reserved for 166.
Opening words: Tragical examples in this kinde are too familiar and common
Closing words: some reject all, and will not be eased.
Passages DJR-166-01 to DJR-166-52
Source page labels: 704–709 (sequence 716–721). Scan pages: 816, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821.
Scan 816; printed 704; sequence 716; image block166-source-816.png. Begins with the complete Subsection 5 heading, Prognostiques of Despair, Atheism, Blasphemy, violent death, &c. All subsequent body and marginal entries i, k, l, m included. Preceding body and margins e–h belong to 165. Printed Partritus retained; precise identification remains unresolved.
Scan 817; printed 705; sequence 717; image block166-source-817.png. All body, both Subsection 6 heading units and all four marginal entries n, o, p, dagger. Includes the distinction between willing action and the force of illness, the cooperation of medicine and counsel, the displayed Horace line and the George Burton–James Whitehall margin.
Scan 818; printed 706; sequence 718; image block166-source-818.png. All body and four marginal entries a, b, c, d. Preserves Navarrus’s announcement of ten remedies followed by five explicit items, Greenham’s six means and Culmannus’s seven rules. Printed 2 Corinthians 11:9 retained and explained as a mistaken locator for 12:9. Matthew 11.28 repeated across the page boundary appears once, explicitly recorded.
Scan 819; printed 707; sequence 719; image block166-source-819.png. All body and six marginal entries e, f, g, h, i, k. Includes the mercy comparisons and the objection concerning repeated sin. Latin and Burton’s separate English restatements preserved. Related Chrysostom parallel distinguished from exact verification of Burton’s cited homily.
Scan 820; printed 708; sequence 720; image block166-source-820.png. All body and seven marginal entries dagger, l, m, n, o, p, q. Preserves seventy-seven, the Anselm prayer, golden-chain retelling, medical analogies and repentance images. The Latin clean-from-unclean phrase and Burton’s different creation-from-nothing paraphrase both remain.
Scan 821; printed 709; sequence 721; image block166-source-821.png. Opening body through the displayed Seneca line Quem pœnitet peccasse pene est innocens. Includes five marginal entries r, s, t, u, dagger. Excludes subsequent body beginning ’Tis true indeed and all sufficient this, they do confess, if they could repent and entries x, y, z, reserved for 167.
Opening words: SUBSECT. 5. Prognostiques of Despair, Atheism, Blasphemy, violent death, &c.
Closing words: Quem pœnitet peccasse pene est innocens.
Passages DJR-167-01 to DJR-167-55
Source page labels: 709–715 (sequence 721–727). Scan pages: 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, 826, 827.
Scan 821; printed 709; sequence 721; image block167-source-821.png. Begins with ’Tis true indeed and all sufficient this, they do confess, if they could repent. All following body and marginal entries x, y, z included. Earlier body and margins belong to 166. Printed heaven retained, with the margin’s harbour image explained.
Scan 822; printed 710; sequence 722; image block167-source-822.png. All body and four marginal entries a, b, c, d. Preserves the Latin promises and separate English restatements, qualifications about desire and repentance, and the Careless–Bradford exchange. Printed Matthew 6:23 retained and explained as a mistaken locator for Mark 9:24; the contrite-heart wording compared with Psalm 34:18 and Luke 4:18.
Scan 823; printed 711; sequence 723; image block167-source-823.png. All body and five marginal entries e, f, and three daggers. Includes the objections concerning religion and providence, three displayed verse units and the Campanella and Lucan margins. Printed Pomponius retained against the Pompeius parallel. Campanella’s unclear colum and tentative sense recorded without a silent emendation.
Scan 824; printed 712; sequence 724; image block167-source-824.png. All body and one marginal entry a. Preserves the historical causal account of unwanted thoughts, the Latin devil’s-bath phrase and English restatement, and distinctions between involuntary occurrence, resistance and consent.
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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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