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Re: [Bibulus-users] entry type for medievalists
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Thomas Widmann |
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Re: [Bibulus-users] entry type for medievalists |
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Tue, 04 May 2004 20:33:26 +0100 |
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Jesse Billett <address@hidden> writes:
> Dear Bibulus users and developers,
Sorry for ignoring you for so long, but I have a day job to do as
well. :-( I hope to get more time to work on Bibulus in the coming
months.
> [...]
> I study medieval history and liturgy. Like all medievalists, many of
> the sources with which I work are medieval manuscripts. These are
> referenced in bibliographies in forms similar to this:
>
> City, Library, Shelfmark
> e.g. London, British Library, MS Royal 2.A.10
Great -- a new entry type!!!
> For citations within the text, sometimes more information is
> necessary, such as referring to a folio number, taking the form
> "fol. 221", or "fols. i--x, 12--27." (Medieval books are rarely
> numbered with pages, though this sometimes happens and would require
> an option.)
So apart from the normal pages and chapters, we have to add folios.
Fine.
> The first citation in a chapter would need to indicate the date of the
> manuscript, its place of origin, and often a standard reference work
> in which it is cited, and perhaps books where the manuscript might be
> edited, reproduced in facsimile, or discussed in detail:
How do you normally cite -- in footnotes?
> Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, MS Amiatino I, {\em CLA} III, 299:
> s. vii--viii (before A.D. 716), Jarrow or Wearmouth, Northumbria; see
> E. A. Lowe, {\em English Uncial} (Oxford, 1960), pp. 11--12,
> nn. 12--13, Plates VIII and IX; B. Bischoff, {\em Latin Paleography:
> Antiquity to the Middle Ages}, tr. D. \'{O} Cr\'{o}in\'{\i}n and
> D. Ganz (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 71 and 199.
>
> So this would require the following traditional BibTeX-style fields:
>
> Address: Florence
Nothing new there, I guess.
> Library: Biblioteca Laurenziana
New.
> Shelfmark: Amiatino I (the MS prefix doesn't apply to all
> styles... needs to be optional)
New. Would 'MS' always be inserted in some styles, or are other texts
possible?
> Pagerange: [empty if all]
Fine.
> X-te: s. vii--viii (before A.D. 716) [ "s" here is for the
> Latin "saecula", and refers to the centuries when the book might
> have been made]
Sorry, but what do you mean by 'X-te'? Apart from that, I'm a bit
concerned about how to express 's. vii--viii (before A.D. 716)' in a
nice, consistent and language-independent way. Any ideas?
> Origin: Jarrow or Wearmouth, Northumbria
New.
> Standardref: \CLA III, 299 % (use a macro for abbreviated names.
> This one is "Codices Latini Antiquiories", a standard ref. work)
Does this function more or less as journals do to articles?
> Edition: [citation key for an edition of the manuscript]
Could you please exemplify?
> Seealso: [pp.~11--12, nn.~12--13, Plates VIII, IX]{Lowe:1960}
> [pp. 71, 199]{Bischoff:1999}
Surely this is not part of the entry type, but part of the citation
(or an annotation in the bibliography)?
> I hope you might find this an appropriate entry type.
We most certainly need to define a new one for this purpose.
> It would certainly broaden the appeal of Bibulus. I am in touch
> with an expanding circle of medieval researchers who have found
> LaTeX to be very useful. This would help them a lot. In the
> meantime, I'm looking into modifying the jurabib style to see if it
> might work.
I agree that jurabib is probably the best BibTeX-based option, but I'd
like to see Bibulus being able to handle this.
Thanks so much for your feedback!
/Thomas
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