Rebecca Welzenbach wrote:
I hope we'll ultimately move (revert?) to citing based on how the content is structured--chapter & verse, so to speak--rather than how any one device (including a particular edition of a book) displays it.
Yes, I'd opt for the same way of reference I use when I want to point somebody to a passage of a text for which no standard edition exists (or which is available in many manuscripts) and where I don't want to require the reader to use the same edition/manuscript I used to be able to have a look at (more or less) the same passage I'm talking about: something like "Aeg. De regimine II-2, c. 2, § "Tertia via ad hoc ostendendum sumitur ex utilitate regni" (with an additional "AEGIDIUS Romanus: De Regimine Principum Libri III (ed. Hieronymus SAMARITANUS), Romae [Apud Bartholomaeum Zanettum] 1607, p. 290 - or something like that). "Aeg. De regimine II-2, c. 2, § "Tertia via ad hoc ostendendum sumitur ex utilitate regni" should be enough to point anybody to the passage I have in mind even if she/he is using an other edition (e.g. the 1473 GW 7217 one : http://daten.digitale- sammlungen.de/bsb00040647/image_129 viz. http://is.gd/fPhZh ).
Best
Heinrich
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