Manually adding manuscript sources on the final bibliography

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I have cited all the manuscript sources of my doctoral dissertation manually using \footnote. I am now wondering how to include these sources in the final bibliography separately. (1. Primary sources. 1.1. Unpublished primary sources. 1.2. Published primary sources. 2. Secondary sources.) Is there a way to do so manually? Or is it better to create a new .bib file with the list of manuscript documents under the category @misc of my package biblatex-chicago?

I have added an example of the result I would like to obtain:

Can you clarify a bit on what you mean by "manually"? You have regular non-manuscript citations in a .bib file and you're using biblatex-chicago for them, but none of your manuscript sources are currently in a .bib file at all? And the final output you want will be your regular bibliography and then a "manuscript" bibliography organized in the way you say? — Alan Munn, Jan 16 '16 at 15:20
Yes, that is correct. Non manuscript citations are in a .bib file with the exception of manuscript documents. A typical "manual" citation would look like: \footnote{ASFi MP 4463 f.43r-v} — Clemclem, Jan 16 '16 at 16:03
I'm not sure what the "manuscript bibliography" would look like, maybe you can also create it manually (since your citations are also created manually, that would also make sense). If you want the bibliography to be created automatically (there is no problem splitting the bibliographies by type) it is quite beneficial to have a .bib file with the proper entries. Would you be able to show what you have so far as well as a "mock-up" of what you would like to get? — moewe, Jan 17 '16 at 17:12
I have added an image of the result I would like to obtain. Concerning what I have so far, it is merely an automated final bibliography of all the secondary sources. — Clemclem, Jan 18 '16 at 19:50
So primarysource.bib does not exist? Published manuscripts (whatever these are) are also only cited that way in footnotes? — cfr, Jan 19 '16 at 00:21
You should consider whether biblatex-manuscripts-philology is an option. (However, as I understand it, the package is better geared toward critical editing tasks than mere bibliography.) Alternatively, it is possible to define your own entry type, say @manuscript, and 'bibliography driver' for it. This would be the best way to integrate it into the other parts of the bibliography. — jon, Jan 19 '16 at 05:22
You could also have a look at Biblatex: Citing complex nested unpublished sources or Need help configuring entry type driver for biblatex-dw. Different citation style sa for different entry types for some other biblatex solutions. — moewe, Jan 19 '16 at 07:15
@jon Many thanks for the comment! I didn't know about biblatex-manuscripts-philology, I'll test it this week-end. — Clemclem, Jan 20 '16 at 19:55

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

For anything that is in your .bib file already it's simple to group those citations using biblatex. See Sectioning bibliography by type of referred item for a basic example. Since you've manually entered the unpublished sources, and the format you want them in isn't terribly conducive to a .bib solution, I suggest organizing them in a CSV file and using datatool to print them.

The following document as proof of concept does what you want. First, the CSV file. It has the following column structure:

ArchiveName   ArchiveAbbrev   SourceName   SourcePrefix   SourceNumber

So a single row corresponds to an individual item:

"Archivo di Stato di Firenze", "ASFi",  "Mediceo del Principato", "Filze",  "810"

In the sample document I've used simple sectioning to format the headings, but you could do this any way you like really. The code is quite simple: I read through the file and produce headings as needed, otherwise I output a comma and a source number. There is no sorting done of the entries, as this is easy to do in Excel or OpenOffice.

\begin{filecontents}{manuscripts.csv}
"ArchiveName","ArchiveAbbrev","SourceName","SourcePrefix","SourceNumber"
"Archivo di Stato di Firenze","ASFi","Mediceo del Principato","Filze",810
"Archivo di Stato di Firenze","ASFi","Mediceo del Principato","Filze",4323
"Archivo di Stato di Firenze","ASFi","Miscellanea Medicea","Filze",2634
"Archivo di Stato di Firenze","ASFi","Strozzi","Filze",480
"Archivo di Stato di Mantova","ASMn","Archivio Gonzaga",,"b1117"
"Archivo di Stato di Mantova","ASMn","Archivio Gonzaga",,"b1140"
"Archivo di Stato di Mantova","ASMn","Archivio Gonzaga",,"b1920"
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\usepackage{datatool}
\DTLloadrawdb{manuscripts}{manuscripts.csv}
\def\lastsource{}
\def\lastarch{}
\begin{document}
\DTLforeach{manuscripts}{\archive=ArchiveName,\archabbrev=ArchiveAbbrev,\sourcename=SourceName,\sourceprefix=SourcePrefix,\sourcenum=SourceNumber}{%
\DTLifstringeq{\archive}{\lastarch}
    {\DTLifstringeq{\sourcename}{\lastsource}
        {, \sourcenum}%
        {\let\lastsource\sourcename
         \subsection{\sourcename}
         \DTLifnullorempty{\sourceprefix}{}{\sourceprefix~}\sourcenum}}
    {\let\lastarch\archive
     \let\lastsource\sourcename
     \section{\archive\DTLifnullorempty{\archabbrev}{}{ (\archabbrev)}}
     \subsection{\sourcename}
     \DTLifnullorempty{\sourceprefix}{}{\sourceprefix~}\sourcenum}%
}
\end{document}

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much! – Clemclem Jan 20 '16 at 20:00 — Clemclem, Jan 20 '16 at 20:00

Manually adding manuscript sources on the final bibliography

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