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Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

1651 English with a close modern English rendering

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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Bibliography and Comparison Resources

p. 1388

Recorded uses: DJR-067 — Culpeper: Culpeper, Complete Herbal, expanded 1850 edition: dispensatory vocabulary including tablet forms, Diamoschu Dulce and Requies. Later terminology comparator only; not a reconstruction of Burton’s recipes.; work/audit-021/sources.json — Culpeper: Culpeper, Complete Herbal, expanded 1850 edition.

BIB-1318

Ludwig Lavater, Of Ghostes and Spirites, R. H. translation (1596), I.10, pp. 45–47, and I.19, pp. 88–97: monastic deception and places of apparitions; Burton’s Latin uncollated. Ludwig Lavater, Of Ghostes and Spirites, R. H. translation (1596), I.10, pp. 45–47, and I.19, pp. 88–97

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Recorded uses: DJR-156 — Lavater1596: Ludwig Lavater, Of Ghostes and Spirites, R. H. translation (1596), I.10, pp. 45–47, and I.19, pp. 88–97: monastic deception and places of apparitions; Burton’s Latin uncollated.; work/audit-051/sources.json — 156-Lavater1596: Ludwig Lavater, Of Ghostes and Spirites, R. H. translation (1596), I.10, pp. 45–47, and I.19, pp. 88–97.

BIB-1319

Claudian, Panegyric on the Consulship of Manlius Theodorus 239–240. Calm authority and violent force. Loeb text and translation.

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Recorded uses: DJR-017 — claudian: Claudian, Panegyric on the Consulship of Manlius Theodorus 239–240. Calm authority and violent force. Loeb text and translation..

BIB-1320

Busbecq, Turkish Letter 3, Forster and Daniel translation (1881), vol. 1, pp. 206–207: lynx and crane. Busbecq, Turkish Letter 3, Forster and Daniel translation (1881), vol. 1, pp. 206–207

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Recorded uses: DJR-113 — Busbecq: Busbecq, Turkish Letter 3, Forster and Daniel translation (1881), vol. 1, pp. 206–207: lynx and crane.; work/audit-036/sources.json — 113-Busbecq: Busbecq, Turkish Letter 3, Forster and Daniel translation (1881), vol. 1, pp. 206–207.

BIB-1321

Busbecq, Turkish Letter I, the Greek boy and the drinker. Busbecq, Turkish Letter 4, in Forster and Daniell’s translation: Sultan Suleiman, music, plate and wine imports. Burton cites Letter 3. Busbecq, Turkish Letter 3: Rüstem’s view of salvation and its heterodox status. Busbecq, Turkish Letter 4, in Forster and Daniell’s translation Busbecq, Turkish Letter 3

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Recorded uses: DJR-159 — Busbecq: Busbecq, Turkish Letter I, the Greek boy and the drinker.; DJR-160 — busbecq: Busbecq, Turkish Letter 4, in Forster and Daniell’s translation: Sultan Suleiman, music, plate and wine imports. Burton cites Letter 3.; DJR-161 — busbecq: Busbecq, Turkish Letter 3: Rüstem’s view of salvation and its heterodox status.; work/audit-052/sources.json — 159-Busbecq: Busbecq, Turkish Letter I, the Greek boy and the drinker.; work/audit-052/sources.json — 160-busbecq: Busbecq, Turkish Letter 4, in Forster and Daniell’s translation; work/audit-052/sources.json — 161-busbecq: Busbecq, Turkish Letter 3.

BIB-1322

Heliodorus, Aethiopica 4; English version revised by Rowland Smith, Acestinus’s diagnosis. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon 1; Smith translation, Clitophon’s sleeplessness and dawn dreams. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon, book 8, in The Greek Romances (1901). Heliodorus, Aethiopica 4 Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon 1

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Recorded uses: DJR-126 — Heliodorus4: Heliodorus, Aethiopica 4; English version revised by Rowland Smith, Acestinus’s diagnosis.; DJR-128 — Tatius1: Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon 1; Smith translation, Clitophon’s sleeplessness and dawn dreams.; DJR-147 — tatius: Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon, book 8, in The Greek Romances (1901).; work/audit-041/sources.json — 126-Heliodorus4: Heliodorus, Aethiopica 4; work/audit-041/sources.json — 128-Tatius1: Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon 1; work/audit-048/sources.json — 147-tatius: Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon, book 8, in The Greek Romances (1901)..

BIB-1323

Francis Bacon, Of Superstition: wise men following fools. Francis Bacon, Of Superstition

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Recorded uses: DJR-155 — bacon: Francis Bacon, Of Superstition: wise men following fools.; work/audit-050/sources.json — 155-bacon: Francis Bacon, Of Superstition.

BIB-1324

Plutarch, On the Delay of Divine Justice: Pausanias and Apollodorus. Plutarch, On the Delay of Divine Justice

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Recorded uses: DJR-165 — plutarch: Plutarch, On the Delay of Divine Justice: Pausanias and Apollodorus.; work/audit-054/sources.json — 165-plutarch: Plutarch, On the Delay of Divine Justice.

BIB-1325

Homer, Iliad, book 8: Zeus and the golden-chain challenge. Homer, Iliad, book 8

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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.