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“Digital libraries
I have started to include here also digitized parliamentary proceedings. Legal historians often deal with old books. This page offers also some guidance to old printed books, including incunabula and blockbooks, both in online bibliographies and digital libraries. Digitized pamphlets are presented on a special page.
Africa
- Biblioteca Digital, Memórias de África e do
Oriente – a project for a digital library concerning countries within the
former Portuguese empire (Cabo Verde, Goa, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé,
Guinée-Bissau, Macau)
- Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa, Frankfurt am
Main
- Africa Online Digital Library, Michigan State
University
- Aluka – now part of JSTOR but in Africa free
accessible
- African Legal Information Institute (AfricaLII)
- Laws.Africa – with a subdomain for gazettes, for some countries (Kenya, Naminia,
Nigeria) also older issues
- Southern Africa Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
- Legis-PALOP – a digital legal library for
five former Portuguese colonies in Africa, with current materials, and
also items created between 1926 and 1975; access after registration
- Bibliothèque virtuelle de l’Université de Alger –
a repository functioning as a virtual library with also old books
- Algérie Ancienne – a digital library with
numerous old texts
- Digital Assets Repository, Alexandria, Bibliotheca Alexandrina – this digital
library contains many juridical works; the user interface is in Arabic,
English or French; in a subdomain you can consult a digital version of
the Description de l’Égypte (23 vol., Paris
1809-1829); the BA proudly presents a mirrorsite of the Internet Archive
- Virtual Library on ancient
and modern Egypt, e-Corpus – a digital library for Egyptology
with some 2,000 books
- Memory of Modern Egypt,
Bibliotheca Alexandrina – with books from the last two centuries;
interface Arabic
- Rare Books and Special Collections Digital Library,
American University in Cairo
- Cases
in Ghana Land Law – a selection of cases since the
nineteenth century
- Liberian Law, Cornell University Library
- Maps of Liberia 1830-1870,
Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress
- Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1857-1940: An Index,
Liberiapedia – a guide to laws and acts
- Indiana University Liberian Collections –
among the variety of sources are the Liberian constitutions since 1820
- Bibliothèque numérique, Bibliothèque nationale du
Royaume de Maroc, Rabat
- Lithographies, Bibliothèque numérique, Fondation
du roi Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud pour les études islamiques et les sciences
humaines, Casablanca – 470 lithographed books; there are also digitized manuscripts
and a small section Archives marocaines
- Bulletin officiel,
Royaume du Maroc – available in Arabic and French, there is a separate
page for issues since 1912 of
this gazette
- Biblioteca Moçambique, Magno Antunes, Braga – a
small digital library on various subjects
- Namibian Digital Archive, Polytechnic of Nambia,
Utah Valley University and National Archives of Namibia – digitized
archival collections, photographs, films and books
- Bibliothèque numérique
Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar – with some legal works among the ouvrages rares
- The Digital Somali Library,
Indiana University, Bloomington – 137 digitized books
- Laws of South Africa: Consolidated Legislation,
University of Pretoria
- Statutes of the old South African Colonies, 1714-1910,
University of Pretoria
- Native Appeal Court Cases (1894-1971), University
of Pretoria
- Digital collections, University of Cape Town
Libraries
- SEALS Digital Commons –
a platform for the digital collections of several universities
- Sudan Open Archive, Rift Valley Institute
- The Mahmoud Salih Collection, Digitalt,
Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen – a general collection of rare books
about Sudan
- Sudan E-Books,
Digital Library, University of Khartoum – a general digital library
- World Digital Library: Uganda – some sixty
items with thrirty books, dealing for example with treaties and land
tenure
America
- Digital Library of the Caribbean – with
special attention for law in Cuba and Haiti, and also a number of official
gazettes and archival materials
- The Early Caribbean Digital Archive, Northwestern
University
- Manioc, Bibliothèque numérique Caraibe-Amazonie-Plateau
des Guyanas – as for now resources from Guadaloupe, Guyana and Martinique,
including databases with documents about slavery
- Caribbean Documents Collection,
University of Miami Libraries
- Caribbean Law and Jurisprudence, eCollections,
Florida International University Law Library, Miami – acts, ordinances and
case law reports from sixteen countries
- Dutch Caribbean Digital Platform, University of
Curaçao – interface English, Dutch, Papiamentu and Spanish
- Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano –
a project of the Spanish national library and several national libraries
in Latin America, with for now mainly manuscripts, drawings and old maps;
interface in English, Spanish and Portuguese
- Biblioteca americana,
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- Civil Codes (1800-1923), eCollections, Florida International
University Law Library, Miami – 23 codes of civil law, mainly from Latin
America, but also for Spain, Portugal, Japan and the Netherlands
- Bicentenario de las Independencias Iberoamericanas –
between 1808 and 1814 many Latin-American countries gained their
independence from Spain
- Biblioteca Digital Andina – libraries in
Latin-American countries along the Andes
- Latin American Series,
Digital Collections, La Trobe University, Melbourne
- Latin American Pamphlet
Digital Collection, Widener Library, Harvard University
- Spanish America Collection, Internet Archive –
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University – some 2,500 titles, in
particular voluminous for Argentina, Chile, Guatemala and Peru
- Spanish American Political Texts, University of
Minnesota Libraries – texts from the sixteenth to the twentieth century
- Americanae,
AECID – a Spanish portal to digital collections with Americana
- Indigenous Collection, Internet Archive – John
Carter Brown Library – yet another 750 early printed books, this time also
in one or more indigenous languages
- De Indiarum iure, Max-Planck-Institut für
europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main – 33 Early Modern works
- The School of Salamanca, Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Mainz – a project for a digital collection with some 120
works and an accompanying historical-political dictionary; interface
German., English and Spanish
- Biblioteca Digital de los Derechos Humanos, Equipo
NIzkor – for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,, Colombia and Peru
- Biblioteca Digital del ILCE, Instituto Lationamericano
de la Comunicación Eudcativo, Ciudad de México
- Archivo Parlamentario y Museo, Cámara de Diputados
– a digital library with information about members, committees, debates
and decisions
- Biblioteca Digital de Tratados, Ministerio de
Relaciones Exteriores, República Argentina
- Biblioteca Digital, Sala del Tesoro, Biblioteca
Nacional de Maestros – with some juridical works from the sixteenth
century
- Biblioteca Juridica Virtual Argentina – with
separately the actual digital library (DSpace)
- Horizontes y Convergencias: Lecturas Históricas y
Antropológicas sobre el Derecho – an online journal and
portal site
- Doctrina: Historia del
Derecho, Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales
de Córdoba
- Biblioteca Digital,
Sistema de Bibliotecas Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos
Aires – you can search here with the option Biblioteca Digital;
interface in Spanish, English and French
- Argentina Collection, John Carter Brown Library –
Internet Archive – some 1,500 digitized works
- Documentos Fundacionales,
Biblioteca Nacional de Argentina – as for now mainly nineteenth-century
edicts, decrees and proclamations in this section of the cultural heritage
portal Trapalanda
- Projecto Patrimonio Historico, Instituto
Ravignani, Buenos Aires – digitized maps, journals, archival and book
collections, with for example the source edition Asembleas Constituyentes Argentinas (6 vol.,
1935-1937)
- Archivo Histórico de Revistas Argentinas (Ahira)
- Biblioteca Nacional Aruba – Coleccionan Digital,
Internet Archive
- El Dorado, Biblioteca
Virtual Iberoamericano y Caribeña, Archivos y Biblioteca
Nacional
- Bolivian Digital Pamphlets Collection, Cornell
University – 715 pamphlets from the collection of Alfredo Montano
- Biblioteca del Bicentenario de Bolivia
- Biblioteca Nacional Digital, Biblioteca Nacional
do Brasil
- Hemeroteca Digital, Biblioteca Nacional Digital
- Rede Memória, Biblioteca Nacional – a portal to
digital collections of several institutions, with for example obras raras of the Biblioteca do Senado
Federal
- Biblioteca Digital Luso-Brasilieira – a
project of the Brazilian and Portuguese national libraries
- Brasiliana USP, Universidade de São Paulo – a
general digital library with also works of interest for legal history
- Obras Raras e Especiais, Universidade de São Paulo
- Biblioteca Virtual de Direitos Humanos,
Universidade de São Paulo
- Acervo Digital, Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José
Mindlin, Universidade de São Paulo
- Biblioteca Digital de Coleções Especiais,
Biblioteca Central, Universidade de Brasilia
- Biblioteca Digital de Literaturas de Lingua Portugues,
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – interface Portuguese, Spanish,
English and French
- Biblioteca Digital, Câmara dos Deputados
- Biblioteca Digital, Biblioteca do Senado Federal
- Memória Estatística do Brasil, Ministerio da
Fazenda no Rio de Janeiro – a portal for statistical information form the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Brasilian Government Documents, Center for
Research Libraries, Chicago – provincial and presidential reports,
presidential messages and the Almanak Laemmert
- Biblioteca Digital do Superior Tribunal de Justiça –
with also digitized information from its own museum
- Biblioteca Digital,
Suprema Tribunal Federal
- Julgamentos Históricos,
Supremo Tribunal Federal – a selection for this tribunal starting in1891,
for the Supremo Tribunal da Justiça (1829-1891) and the Casa da Suplicação
(1808-1829)
- The Código
Brasiliense at the John Carter Brown Library,
Brown University – a digitized version of a three volume collection of
Brazilian laws printed between 1811 and 1822
- Portugal and Brazil Collection, John Carter Brown
Library – Internet Archive – a collection with some 1,600 titles,
including the Código Brasiliense
- Diariós Oficiais, JusBrasil – the official
gazettes of Brazil, with also older issues
- Anais do Senado Federal – this series for the
debates in the Brazilian Senate unfortunately has lacunae
- Biblioteca Digital do Senato Federal – rare
books, but also more recent items
- Acervo Historico, Assembleia Legislativa do Senado
de São Paulo – various collections usefully presented for four main
periods, both archival materials and books
- Biblioteca Digital, Assembleia Legislativa do
Senado de São Paulo – here mostly modern works
- Biblioteca Digital, Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão,
Ministério das Relaçóes Exteriores – with works on diplomatic history
- Obras raras,
Acervo digital, Fundação Cultural do Estado de Pará
- Digital Library on Comparative Criminal Law,
François Lareau, Ottawa – for the history of European penal law
- Canadian Constitutional Documents
- Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources,
Parliament of Canada and Canadiana – digitized debates held in the
House of Commons and the Senate from 1867 onwards
- Canadian Hansard 1901-, Lipad – several search
possibilities with parliamentary debates, including saving as textual
corpus
- The Canada Gazette – official publications of
the Canadian government, accessible in two databases, for the period
1841-1997 and from 1998 onwards
- Early Canadiana Online – partially free
accessible; the advanced search enables search for subjects
- British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867,
University of New Brunswick Libraries and Stephanie Pettigrew –
legislation for the Canadian territories
- Canada in the Making – a site devoted to
Canadian constitutional history
- Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales de Québec, Collection
Numérique – a great variety of sources, some of them
relevant for legal history, for example the Gazette officielle du Québec (1869-1995),
with a special index
- Our Future, Our Past: The Alberta Heritage Digitization
Project – including The Alberta Law Collection and municipal
bylaws
- British Columbia Reports, University of British
Columbia – law reports between 1884 and 1948
- British Columbia Sessional Papers, University of
British Columbia – a wide variety in this selection of 3,700 printed items
concerning legislation, in two series, 1865-1871 and 1872-1982
- British Columbia Royal and Special Commissions 1872-1980,
Legislative Library of British Columbia
- Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta
Libraries – several digital collections, including one with digitized
books, among them bylaws and studies in law
- Alberta Law Collection,
University of Calgary – some 4,000 items
- Osgoode Hall Law Library, Internet Archive –
mainly digitized reports from the Ontario Law Reform Commission;
also available at
the Osgoode Digital Commons
- Osgoode Digital Commons – with among the
items of the Law Library in particular the sections
for Law Reports and Digests and statutes for Ontario
- National Aboriginal
Documents Database – with among the links for
example a number of treaties concerning indigenous people
- Casebooks, Bora Laskin Law Library, University of
Torontoi – Internet Archive – nearly 5,000 casebooks written since 1942 by
staff members of the Toronto Law School
- Thomas Fisher Canadiana Collection, University of
Toronto Libraries – nearly 7,000 books
- Biblioteca Virtual del Bicentenario, Biblioteca
Nacional de Chile
- Memoria Chilena: Salas Virtuales, Biblioteca
Nacional de Chile – this website features in the section Política y legislación for
example Derecho indiano
- Selección de Textos Clásicos de Derecho,
Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile
- Fuentes Documentales y
Bibliográficas para el Estudio de la Historia de Chile,
Universidad de Chile
- Chile Collection, John Carter Brown Library –
Internet Archive – nearly 400 titles
- Biblioteca Digital,
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile – interface
Spanish and English
- Colombiae, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
– a portal to digitized materials in a number of Colombian libraries
- Libro Antiguo,
Colecciones digitales, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia – early
printed works
- Biblioteca Virtual Luis Ángel Arango, Banco del
República, Bogotá
- The J. Léon Helguera Collection of Colombiana,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee – mainly pamphlets and
broadsides, some of them pertaining to law and government
- Colombia Collection, John Carter Brown Library,
Brown University – Internet Archive – 90 sometimes very rare digitized
books
- Biblioteca Virtual, Red Cultural del Banco del República
en Colombia – a wide varioety of digitized resources
- Biblioteca Digital,
Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas Costa Rica
- Repositorio Biblioteca Digital Carlos Meléndez,
Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central (CIHAC),
Universidad de Costa Rica
- Repositorio Biblioteca Diigital Rafael Obregón Loria,
CIHAC, Universidad de Costa Rica
- Cuban law, Digital Library of the Caribbean
- Colecciones digitales,
Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí, Havana
- Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami
Libraries – several digital collections concerning the history of Cuba
- Cuban Law, eCollections, Florida International
University Law Library, Miami – a small but important digital collection
with materials printed and used before 1961
- Mario Diaz Cruz Collection, eCollections,
Florida International University Law Library, Miami – materials collected
by a prominent Cuban lawyer
- Biblioteca Digital Dominicana, República
Dominicana – a general digital library
- Repositorio digital, Biblioteca Nacional de
Ecuador, Quito – with for example historical newspapers and official
gazettes
- BINAES – Biblioteca Nacional de El Salvador “Francisco
Gavidia” – three digitized collections at the national
portal Repositiorio Digital de Sciencia y Cultura de El Salvador (REDICCES)
- Guatemala Collection, John Carter Brown Library –
Internet Archive – some 200 early works
- Remember Haiti,
John Carter Brown Library – a digital library on Haiti’s history
- Haiti Collection, Internet Archive, John Carter
Brown Library – a digital collection with some 900 titles
- Haiti Digital Library, Haiti Laboratory, Duke
University – an initiative for a digital library
- Haitian Law, Digital Library of the Caribbean
- Haiti Legal Patrimony Project – Harvard Law
School and LLMC – a very substantial digital legal library
- Haiti Legal Bibliography,
Library of Congress – the books in this bibliography are being digitized
- Legislation from Haiti,
Library of Congress, University of Ottawa Libraries and Internet Archives
– the Bulletin des Lois et Actes and the Code civil d’Haiti
- Haitian Law and Legal Materials, Digital Library
of the Caribbean
- The Haitian Declaration of
Independence, Duke University Libraries
- Constitutions, Haiti and the Atlantic World –
Julia Gaffield provides here transcriptions of the constitutions between
1790 and 1860
- La Gazette Royale de Hayti, Marlene Daut – with
the Gazette Officielle de l’état d’Hayti (1807-1811), its sequel, the Gazette Royale d’Hayti (1813-1820) and almanacs (Almanach royal de Hayti (1814-1820), brought together from several
libraries worldwide
- Haiti, un île lumineuse, George Smathers
Libraries, University of Florida
- Biblioteca Virtual Letras de Honduras – a
project of a number of cultural institutions
- Digital collections, National Library of Jamaica,
Kingston – with for example collections about riots, rebellions and the
slave trade
- Government of Jamaica
Dcuments, National Library of Jamaica – an online guide and
digitized documents from 1960 onwards
- Jamaica Law,
University of the West Indies, Mona – four volumes of the Laws of Jamaica between
1906 and 1910
- Mexicana: Repositorio Digital de Patrimonio Cultural de
México, Secretaria de Cultura – with a section for libros, textos y
documentos; interface Spanish and English
- Biblioteca Digital Mexicana – a portal to
digitized documents of several cultural institutions
- Biblioteca Virtual de México, Secretaria de
Cultura
- Los Primeros Libros de las Américas – a
portal of a number of Mexican, American and Spanish libraries to digitized
books printed in America before 1601
- Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México, Universidad
Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) en Biblioteca Nacional de México – digitized
newspapers and periodicals
- Biblioteca Jurídica Virtual, UNAM
- Legislación Mexicana, UNAM – nearly 17,000
legislative acts, ordinances and much more between 1697 and 1902,
collected by Manuel Dublany and José Maria Lozano
- Biblioteca Digital Bicentenario – a portal to
digitized books on the struggle for independence around 1810 and the
revolution of 1910
- Libros digitales, Instituto Nacional de Estudios
Históricos de las Revoluciones de México – a portal with several
collections, for instance about the constitution
- Centenarios, UNAM
- Biblioteca Virreinal,
Centre de Estudios de Historia de México, Fundacion Carlos Slim, Ciudad de
Mexico – a digital library with Early Modern books with more than fifty
collections, for example Alegatos juridicos (pleas and legal
consultations), Bandos (ordinances), Derecho (legal books), Derecho administrativo and Legislación (legislation)
- Biblioteca CEHM, Centro de Estudios de Historia de
Méxcio, Fundacion Carlos Slim – another digital libary, with some 80
collections
- Publicaciónes Digitales, UNAM – a portal to
several digital collections
- Proyecto Independencia de México, UNAM
- Coleccion Digital, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo
León – with some 8,200 old books in the Colección Libro Antiguo
- Biblioteca Digital,
Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, El Colegio de México
- Movimientos armados en México, Biblioteca
Daniel Cosío Villegas, El Colegio de México – a small collection of
publications on this important subject in Mexican history
- Morales de Escarcéga Collection, University of
Arizona – with also an online exhibit of
documents concerning Mexico’s history
- Mexican Incunabula
(1559-1600) at the Latin America Library, Tulane University
Digital Library – digitized versions of some of the earliest Mexican books
- Biblioteca Digital del Pensamiento Novohispano,
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM – a digital library with works of
Early Modern thinkers and scholars; interface Spanish and English
- Biblioteca Virtual de
Yucatán – a general digital library with also older works
in the Fondo Reservado
- Biblioteca digital de
relaciones internacionales, Acervo Histórico Diplomático,
Ciudad México
- Libros y documentos,
Sala de Archivos y Colecciones Especiales, Universidad de las Américas,
Puebla – within the Colecciones digitales the Fondo Antiguo-Biblioteca
Franciscana is in particular interesting
- Calendarios mexicanos.
Siglos XIX y XX, Fuentes para el estudio de la historia social,
siglos XIX y XX, Instituto de investigaciones históricas, UNAM – almanacs
and yearbooks published between 1850 and 1930
- Biblioteca Virtual, Biblioteca Publica de Estado
de Jalisco – especially the Coleccion de Lenguas Indígenas is interesting
- Leyes, gacetas y tratados,
Biblioteca Enrique Bolaños – constitutions, constitutional law, the
official gazette Gaceta – Diario official de Nicaragua (1952-),
and legislation
- Coleccion digital, Banco nacional de Nicaragua,
Managua – in the corner Patrimoniales you will find a section Derecho
- Biblioteca Digital
Panameña, Biblioteca Nacional, Panama – with a section Constituciones Panameñas
- Biblioteca Digital, Biblioteca Nacional de
Paraquay, Asunción
- Biblioteca Virtual, Biblioteca Nacional del Perú,
Lima
- Archivo Digital de la Legislación en el Perú,
Congreso de la República de Perú – the Leyes de Indias,
constitutions and laws
- Constituciones del Perú,
Congreso de la República de Perú – constitutions from 1823 to 1993
- Peru Collection, John Carter Brown Library –
Internet Archive – more than 1,000 digitized early printed books
- Biblioteca Indiana, Proyecto Estudios Indianos,
Universidad de Pacifico, Lima and Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona – a
small digital library with Early Modern books; interface Spanish and
English
- Biblioteca Digital Puertoriqqueña, Universidad de
Puerto Rico Recinto de Rio Piedras – a general portal to digitized
resources such as books, manuscripts, maps, posters and photographs;
interface in Spanish and English
- Documentos Históricos.
Escuela de Derecho, Universidad de Puerto Rico – a nice selection of laws
and law codes since 1886
- Puerto Rico Collection, John Carter Brown Library
– Internet Archive – seventeen very rare books
- Puerto Rico at the Dawn of
the Modern Age: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Perspectives,
American Memory, Library of Congress – a fine selection of images, maps,
pamphlets and books
- Colección Puertoriqqueña, UPR RP – Issuu
- Suriname 1599-1975,
Universiteit van Amsterdam – only a few books but many old maps of
Suriname
- Surinam literature, Digital Library for Dutch
Literature – old literature about Suriname and modern literature from
Suriname; almost all works are in Dutch, including the almanachs
- Early Dutch Books Online:
Suriname – the two (!) books in this digital collection
with the keyword Suriname happen to deal with law and
justice; a title search for Suriname yields
five results, searching for Surina* yields
25 results
- Buku – Bibliotheca Surinamica: Natalie Zemon Davis –
online version of three of her essays about the history of Suriname on
this book history blog by Carl Haarnack around his book collection
- World Digital Library; Suriname – a small
digital collection with mainly prints and maps, but also two interesting
British reports from 1920 about Suriname
- Digital Legislative Library, Government of
Trinidad and Tobago – a digital law library with books, documents and
records from 1838 to 2014
- Nalis: Digital Library of Trinidad and Tobago, National Library of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of
Spain
- Digital Public Library of America – a portal
to a number of American digital libraries
- American Memory:
Government, Law, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. – this
section present already 25 collections
- Digitized Materials,
Law Library, Library of Congress – with for example the Federal Register (vol. 1-58,
1936-1993), United States Reports (vol.
1-542, 1754-2004), Statutes at Large and US treaties; the Law Library points also to databases elsewhere, a number of them is in
open access
- United States Code, Library of Congress – a
collection of federal statutory law
- Military Legal Resources,
Library of Congress
- The Federalist Papers, Founding Fathers Info –
there is also another text-only version of these famous pamphlets
discussing the role of the constitution, the organization of the state and
much more at Congress.gov
- Harvard Law School
Library, Digital Collections and Exhibitions – a wide variety
of subjects concerning American, European and Asian legal history is
presented here
- Legal History on the Web:
Web Archives and Primary Sources – this rich list at Duke
University of relevant websites focuses on the United States, the United
Kingdom and South Africa
- LLMC Digital: Open Access – this commercial
provider has unlocked access to The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United
States, 1789-1800, Maeva Marcus et alii (eds.) (8 vol., New
York, 1985-2004), and – at present – sources concerning Hawaii
- American Legal History
Sources Online, D’Angelo Law Library, University of Chicago –
with constitutions of the states and US legislative, executive and
judicial sources; note also the list of commercial digital sources, often
accessible at subscribing libraries
- A Chronology of US Historical Documents,
University of Oklahoma Law Center – a useful compilation of important
documents since 1600
- FLITE – Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975 – a
version with only the text of decisions
- The Supreme Court Database, Washington University,
St. Louis, MO – a database in open access for tracing decisions of this
court
- Selected Historic Decisions of the US Supreme Court,
Cornell University Law School
- Case Law Acccess Project, Harvard University –
open access to millions of digitized cases
- Making of America, University of Michigan – a
digital library with some 10,000 books, at least a few hundred of them
touching law and justice
- Public Papers of the Presidents of United States,
University of Michigan – a digital library with speeches, starting with
Hoover
- American Legislation Project, Kellen Funk – a
portal to state sessions laws, journals, reports, and statutory
compilations, from 1800-1920
- Database of Federal Statute Names, Yale Law
Library – a tool to search for both the official and common names of
federal statutes
- Florida Historical Legal Documents, University of
Florida Libraries
- American Indian
Constitutions and Legal Materials, Library of Congress, Law
Library
- Indian Affairs: Laws and Treatises, Oklahoma State
University – both the five original volumes edited by Charles J. Kappler
(1902-1941) as the two 1979 supplements
- Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln – nine treaties not included in Kappler’s
collection
- Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project,
University of Oklahoma Law Library and The National Indian Law Library
- Documents relating to
Indian affairs, 1801-1869, University of Wisconsin
- Huntington Free Library
Native American Collection, Cornell University – some 120 works
- Confederate Imprints, Duke University Libraries –
nearly 2,400 rare imprints available through the Internet Archive, with
many pamphlets and broadsides, and a substantial number of works touching
upon law
- Confederate Imprints,
Boston Athenaeum – some 4200 digitized items, not just books, but also
maps, serials, broadsides and pamphlets, and also Marjorie Lyle
Crandall’s Confederate Imprints: A Check List Based Principally
on the Collection of the Boston Athenæum (Boston,
MA, 1955)
- Avalon Project: Documents for Law, History and Diplomacy,
Yale Law School Library – perhaps the best known digital library for legal
history with (translated) documents from many periods and countries
- Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection, Cornell
University Library – with a selection of links to other digital
collections
- Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance
& Abolition – with many links to similar digital
collections; the Gilder Lehrman Center contributes also to The Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law,
HeinOnline – a digital collection with statutes, cases, digitized
pamphlets and periodicals and recent scholarly literature
- Digital Library on American Slavery, University of
North Carolina, Greensboro – with slave deeds, petitions, advertisements
and insurance registers
- Early Americas Digital Archive, University of
Maryland – digitized Early Modern books
- The Robert E. Brooker III
Collection of American Legal and Land Use Documents, 1716-1930,
Boston College Law Library
- Western Waters Digital Library, National Endowment
for the Humanities and Greater Western Library Alliance – a wide range of
sources on the history of water and water control concerning rivers like
the Colorado and the Missouri
- Yale Law Library Special Collections – a part
of the YLS Legal Scholarship Repository contains digitized books and
manuscripts on several themes
- American History from Revolution to Reconstruction and beyond,
Universiteit Groningen – a portal to American history with overviews,
essays, biographies, presidential adresses and State of the Unions, and a
compact digital library
- The John Adams Library, Boston Public Library – a
digital collection and portal with some 1,200 volumes, also accessible at
the Internet Archive
- The United States and its Territories, 1870-1925: The age of
Imperialism, University of Michigan – some 4,000 digitized
documents and books touching upon relations with Spain, Puerto Rico and
the Philippines
- Documenting Ferguson, Washington University – a
digital collection – created partially thanks to crowdsourcing – around
the events concerning the police actions in August 2014 and the public reactions
afterwards
- Witness to the Early American Experience, New York
University – digitized documents and archival records
- Repository of Historical Gun Laws, Joseph
Blocher and Darrell Miller, Duke University School of Law – a searchable
database for English legislation from the medieval period up to 1776,
colonial and American legislation until the mid-twentieth century
- Civil Rights Digital Library, University of
Georgia – a digital platform with books, documentary records and
audiovisual materials
- Colecciones digitales, Biblioteca Nacional de
Uruquay – with for example the section Primeros impresos
- Biblioteca Digital Bicentenario Uruquay,
Biblioteca Nacional de Uruquay
- Biblioteca del Poder Legislativo, Autores.uy –
some eighty works
- Libros,
Anaforas: Colecciones, Universidad de la República Uruquay – some 140
works, some of them concerning legislation and government
- Biblioteca Ayacucho
Digital, Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela – a general digital
library
- Textos historicos, Academia Nacional de la
Historia de Venezuela – 120 digitized historical books and sources
- Repositorio digital, Instituto de Investigaciones
Históricas Bolivarium, Caracas
Asia
- Digital collections, CrossAsia, Staatsbibliothek
zu Berlin and Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg – eleven digitized
collections at this portal for Asian studies
- Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Südasien (SaViFa),
Universität Heidelberg – a portal with quick access to digital
collections, bibliographies and much more
- Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago
and Center for Research Libraries, Chicago – also for maps and images, and
for example the South Asian Union Catalogue, a historical
bibliography of works printed since 1556, and a catalogue of 19th-century publications held
at the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library
- Digital South Asia, Universität Tübingen – with
the Epigraphia Canatica
- Literatur zu Süd-Asien,
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg – works from the eighteenth to the
twentieth century
- South Asia Open Archives, JSTOR and Center for
Research Libraries – with currently some 15,000 publications in open
access in thirteen languages, mainly materials from India
- South East Asia Digital Library, Northern Illinois
University – with also web directories
- SouthEast Asian Images & Texts, University of
Wisconsin – for Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and the Philippines
- Malay Concordance Project, Australian National
University – a digital collection with 165 pre-modern texts from Malaysia
and Indonesia
- Asean Digital Library, National Library Board,
Singapore, and Association of South East Asian Nations – a portal for
several digital libvrary collections in South East Asia
- South East-Asia in the Ming-Shi Lu, National
University of Singapore – access to the 3,000 reference in the Chinese
imperial chronicles
- Ostasiatica,
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz – this digital
library covers Indonesia, China, Japan and other countries; do visit their
portal and web guide CrossAsia
- Ostasien, Digitale Sammlungen, Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek, Munich – manuscripts and books from Korea, Japan and
China (7th-19th century)
- e-Asia Digital Library, University of Oregon – in
particular for China, Japan and Korea
- East Asia Library Digital Bookshelf, Princeton
University Library – some 140 works, mainly from China
- International Dunhuang Project, British Library –
the BL leads an international consortium of major libraries for digitizing
the manuscripts found at Dunhuang which pertain to the history of China,
Tibet and other countries
- Digital Himalaya, Cambridge University and
University of British Columbia, Vancouver – a project concerning Nepal,
Bhutan, Tibet and other countries
- Digital Resources,
American Oriental Society – a concise overview of major digital project
sconcerning the ancient and modern Near East and Asia
- Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique / Asian Digital Library –
Institut d’Asie Orientale, Lyon, and Université Aix-Marseille – digitized
books, periodicals, theses, sound recordings and archival documents
- Menalib, The Middle East Virtual Library, Staats-
und Universitätsbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle – interface German and
English
- Menadoc, Sondersammlunggebiet Vorderer
Orient, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle –
interface German and English
- Bibliothek Goussen,
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn – some 850 digitized works in
Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Syrian mainly from the
eighteenth and nineteenth century
- Translatio,
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn – digitized Arabic, Persian and
Ottoman/Turkish periodicals
- Gateway to Gazettes (G2G), Yale University
Library – digital versions of two gazettes,
for independent Syria and British Mandate Palestine, 1919-1948
- Arabic and Middle Eastern
Electronic Library (AMEEL), Yale University Library –
apart from two gazettes also manuscripts, journals, manuscript catalogues
and dictionaries
- Official Gazette, Palestine National Authority and
Birzeit University -from 1994 onwards
- Oman Digital Library, Middle East Institute,
Washington, D.C. – a general digital library concerning the Middle East
- Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) –
an international project for digital collections and exhibits, now in the
prototype phase
- The Middle East Water Collection, Oregon Digital –
a collection with 5,000 books concerning many themes around water,
including legal issues
- al-Hakawati-Net – a general digital library
with a section on Arab constitutions
- Farabi Digital Library, IRCICA – with in
particular the digitized Ottoman gazette Takvim-i Vekayi and Ottoman yearbooks (salname)
- Thomas Fisher Arabic Collection, University of
Toronto Libraries – some 500 works
- Ottoman Collection,
Aga Khan Library, London – currently some sixty works
- Afghanistan Digital Library, New York University –
focusing on the period 1870-1930
- Afghanistan Digital Library Collections,
University of Arizona and Afghanistan Center at Kabul University – some
3,000 works, also available online in the Internet Archive
- Da Afghanistan Kalanay Collection, University of
Arizona – a digital collection of this governmental almanac and yearbook
published under various names between 1932 and 1990
- Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection, Documents in English,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Afghanistan Legal Education Project, Stanford Law
School – primarily focusing on contemporary law, with under Publications its
own digital library
- World Digital Library: Afghanistan – with now
some 200 books, some of them about law
- Digital Library, National Library of Armenia,
Yerevan – with early digitized books from and about Armenia, also
approachable at the Hakob Meghapart Project
- Armenian Rare Books 1512-2012 – the
first Armenian books were printed in Venice in 1512
- Digital Library of Classical Armenian Literature
- Bibliotheca Khmerica, Bibliothèque nationale de
Cambodge, Phnom Penh
- Numerica Sinica, École Nationale Supérieure de
Lyon – a portal to digital resources on China and Taiwan
- Bibliothèque numérique, Institut d’Asie Orientale, Lyons – a digital
library with not only books and journals, but also archival records,
images and sound recordings
- Modern China Studies, East Asia Library,
University of Pittsburgh – a digital library focusing on the 20th century
- Chinese Memory, Digital Library, National Library
of China, Beijing – apart from old books also specific collections, among
them the Min Guo Laws
- Peking University, Universal Library – Internet
Archive – some 38,000 books
- The China-US Million Book Digital Library Project,
Universal Library – Internet Archive – 78,000 titles
- Zhejiang University Library, Universal Library –
Internet Archive – nearly 40,000 titles
- Chinese Rare Book Digital
Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library – some
500 titles
- World Digital Library: China – nearly 300
digitized books, and much more
- Chinese Text Project – with for the Pre-Qin
and Han period a section Legalism
- Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0,
Universität Wien – this blog helps you tracking – in particular by using
the tag cloud, for example law – digitized Chinese books and books
about China
- Ming-Qing Chinese Legal
Documents, Kyoto University Law School
- Legalizing Space in China – a project for the
translation of Ming and Qing legal documents
- True Crimes: Late Imperial Chinese Crime Reports,
Washington University, St. Louis, MO – a digital collection of reports
from the eighteenth century accompanying a study by Robert E. Hegel
- Chinese Rare Books at Yale,
Yale University Library – some 430 works
- Chinese Law Registers, Columbia University Libraries
– Internet Archive – 241 registers from the Shuo tie, Da Qing lü and Xin
zeng Cheng an suo jian ji
- The Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty,
University of California, Merced – a project with an interactive map for
studying jurisdictions during the Song dynasty (960-1276)
- A Digital Library of Chinese Rare Books –
some 1,000 books from the holdings of the Library of Congress,
Princeton University, Harvard University, and the Fu Ssu-Nien Library of
the Academia Sinica in Taiwan
- Chinese Rare Books, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver – 580 digitized works
- Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection, Asian
Division, Library of Congress – some 2,000 titles
- Chinese Rare Books,
Australian National University, Canberra – some 400 works
- Hok Hoi Collection,
Hong Kong Public Libraries – a collection with a core of rare books for
the Chinese classics
- NLC Digital Resources of Ancient Chinese Books,
National Library of China and Hong Kong Public Library
- Digital collections, Rare Books and Special
Collections, National Central Library, Taipei City – a portal of a
consortium of seven libraries
- National Central Library Gazette Online – 60
official gazettes for Taiwan from 1912 onwards
- Taiwan E-books, National Central Library – with a
large section Politics, Law &
Military, and also governmental publications,
a few hundred publications date from before 1910; interface Chinese and
English
- Taiwan Documents Project, Los Angeles
- Digital Library of Local Council Journals
- Boletim Oficial de Timor (1838-1975), Arquivo
Historicio Ultramarino, Lisbon
- AraDA East Timor Special Collection, Charles
Darwin University – nearly 200 books
- Digital Library, National Parliamentary Library of
Georgia, Tbilisi
- Hong Kong Legal Information Institute – not
only modern legislation and jurisprudence, but also Privy Council
Judgments (1861-1997), historical laws (1890-1964), first instance and
appeal judgments since 1946
- Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, University of
Hong Kong Libraries
- Historical Government Reports 1842-1941,
University of Hong Kong Libraries
- Hong Kong University Library Digital Initiatives –
a portal to several digital collection, including rare books, legislation
and war crime trials
- Hong Kong Collection,
Hong Kong Public Libraries – a general collection among its digital collections, with for example old newspapers since 1853
- Hong Kong Handover Collection, Multicultural
Canada – a documentary collection about the end of the British
administration in 1997
- Digital Special
Collections, Run Run Shaw Lbrary, City University of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Memory – a portal for digitized
cultural heritage, mainly for the arts, geography, audiovisual collections
and oral history
- Legal Information of India Institute – apart
from modern laws also Indian Acts starting from 1836, the Indian Treaty
Series from 1947 onwards and Supreme Court Decisions since 1950
- South Asian Legal History Resources, Mitra
Sharafi, University of Wisconsin – this blog is not a digital library, but
offers besides much else certainly a collection of useful links
- Anglo-Indian Legal History, Mitch Fraas,
University of Pennsylvania – a project with Privy Council Appeal cases
from the eighteenth century, and some additional documents
- The Gazette of India – with various series,
some of them dating back to 1922
- Gazettes of India,
Bharat Ek Khoj – Internet Archive – access to several Indian gazettes, the
earliest copy is from 1808
- Parliamentary Digital Library, Lok Sabha,
Parliament of India – with historical documents from 1858 to 1952
- Laws of India, PRS India Legislative Research – in
particular state laws, sometimes also from the nineteenth century; PRS India offers a number of databases for
modern legislation
- Official Publications of
India: Government documents related to pre- and post-independence South
Asia, The University of Chicago Library – a bibliographical
database for the holdings of Chicago and the British Library
- India Code: Digital Repository of all Central and State Acts –
with legislation from 1836 onwards
- Indian Treaties Database, Ministry of External Affairs
– with treaties since 1950
- India Kanoon – a database to search for cases
in Indian law
- Law Commission of India, Ministry of Law and
Justice – since 1950 numerous reforms have discussed and implemented
- Digital Colonial Documents,
La Trobe University, Melbourne – 19th-century English reports and documents
- Bombay High Court Virtual
Museum – not only digitized books and archival records,
but also images, verdicts and law reports
- DSpace at West Bengal State Central Library –
a search for the subject law brings you to at least a few hundred
digitized publications
- Granth Sanjeevani, The Asiatic Society of Mumbai –
a growing digital library with a variety of resources, including English
colonial reports
- Digital Library of India, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore – this digital library is a mirror site of the Universal Digital Library which is particular
strong in works from India and China
- Digital Library of India, ERNET – one can search
for specific subjects in this general digital library
- Digital Library of India, Hyderabad – the subject
division in this general digital library enhances searching for juridical
works from around 1850 onwards
- National Digital Library of India, Ministry of
Human Resource Development – an educational library with a large section
on law, with also historical materials; free registration
- Panjab Digital Library, Chandigarh – aiming for
example at preserving the Sikhs’ culture and heritage; registration
necessary
- Rare Books Online,
Kerala State Library – in this relatively small digital library you will
find many works concerning law
- Dhananjayrao Gadgil Library, Gokhale Institute of
Politics and Economics, Maharashtra – with numerous books about law
- Grantha- und Telugudrucke,
Universität Cologne – rare 19th and 20th-century books from South-India
- Koleksi Digital (Digital Library),
Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia (National Library of Indonesia) –
with rare books and journals (Terbikan
Berkala0, among these also official gazettes; interface Bahasa Indonesia
and English
- Aceh Books, Royal Dutch Institute for
South East Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden – a digital
library created after the earthquake of 2004, including books on law;
search interface in Bahasa Indonesia, English and Dutch
- Cornell Modern Indonesia Collection, Cornell
University Library – a collection of digitized modern studies
- Papua Web: Arsip Dokumen – Document Archive –
including an edition on adat (indigenous customary law)
- World Digital Library: Indonesia – a small
collection, just fifty items; among the ten books are five British reports
from 1920 and a treatise on islamic law
- The Balinese Digital Library – Internet
Archive – with nearly 2,900 books, manuscripts and movies mainly from
Denpasar
- Asnad: Digital Persian Archive, Centrum für Nah-
und Mittelost-Studien, Philipps-Universität, Marburg – historical
documents up to the 20th century
- Nashriyah: digital Iranian
history, University of Manchester – a library with in
particular periodicals and newspapers from the second half of the
twentieth century
- Digital Library,
National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
- Digitized Book Repository, Jewish National and
University Library, Jerusalem
- Digital Media Center,
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa – a digital
library with several sections, including historic maps and aerial photos,
rare books and a archive on Druzes
- Digitized Japanese
scrolls, 1158-1591, Harvard Law School Library – 22 rare komonjo on
a wide variety of subjects
- Rare Books, International Research Center for Japanese
Studies, Nichibun University, Kyoto – digitized books on Japan
printed before 1850
- Birth of the Constitution of Japan, Tokyo,
National Diet Library – a website in Japanese and English on the
constitution of 1946
- Rare Books and Old Materials, Tokyo, National Diet
Library
- Digital Library for the Meiji Era, Tokyo, National
Diet Library
- Laws and regulation from the early Meiji Period (1867-1886),
Tokyo, National Diet Library
- Minutes of the Imperial Diet, 1890-1947, Tokyo,
National Diet Library
- Civil Court Ruling Files from the early Meiji Period, International
Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto – for the period 1868-1890
(Meiji 1 to 23; access after registration
- Rare Books,
Digital Collections, Tsukuba University – among these rare books are the
Max Besson Collection with early Japonica and a collection on English and
Scottish legal history
- Rare Books, International Research Center for
Japanese Studies, Kyoto – 66 digitized books, mainly European travel
accounts
- Rare legal dissertations
in Latin, University Repository, Kanagawa University – 84
digitized early modern dissertations mainly from the German Holy Empire
- Japanese Institutional Repositories Online,
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo – a portal to several Japanese
digital repositories
- Laures Rare Book Project and Virtual Library,
Sophia University, Tokyo – a digital library with mainly books on early
European travels and missionary activities in Japan
- Kotenseki Sogo database of Japanese and Chinese Classics,
Waseda University Library – with also a collection with books on japanese
“Dutch Studies” (Yogaku-Rangaku collection)
- Lauderdale Collection,
Tokyo Keizai University – a collection with 3000 works from the sixteenth
century onwards; the small Hiroshi collection (200
titles) contains numerous political and philosophical works
- Rare materials,
Kyushu University Library – a digital library with some legal works
- Rare Materials Digital Archive, Kyoto University –
nicely divided into sections, including one with old legal books;
interface Japanese and English
- Ryukoku University Library Digital Archive –
a few thousand digitized printed works
- Japanese Censorship
Collection, Library of Congress – some 1,300 works, in
particular communist books from the twentieth century
- Japanese Historical Text Initiative, University of
California at Berkeley
- Japanese Text Initiative, University of Virginia
and University of Pittsburgh
- Japanese works, Cambridge Digital Library
- Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works, National
Institute of Japanese Literature – interface Japanese and English
- Japanese collection,
e-Patrimoine, DIAL.num, Université Catholique de Louvain – some 60 works
- Digital Memory of Kuwait, National Library of
Kuwait – interface Arabic and English
- Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts, National
Library of Laos, Universität Passau and the Staatsbibliothek zu
Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz – with also manuscripts concerning law
- Digital Collections, American University of Beirut
- Base de Dados de Legislação de Macau (LEGISMAC) –
with legislation and other legisative acts from 1855 onwards; interface
Portuguese and Chinese
- Memórias de Macau – a portal for the cultural
heritage of Macau, with archival records, books and museal objects;
interface Portuguese and Chinese
- Fontes Macau-China, sécs.
XVI-XIX, Observatório da China – a digital library with Early
Modern books; interface Portuguese, Chinese and English
- Biblioteca Digital da
Fundação Jorge Álvares, Lissabon – a small digital library with
books about Macau and China
- UM Digital Library Portal, Wu Yee Sun Library,
Universidad de Macau – with Chinese works, Western books on China and rare Western books
- Sejarah Malajuh Library, Sabrizain – a general
digital library for Malaysia and other countries in East Asia
- Selected Mongolian Legal Documents, 1917-1940,
American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulanbataar
- Tod Nonim Gerel Collection –
rare documents and manuscripts
- Legalizing Space in China – an international
project for the translation of Ming and Qing legal documents, and also a
section on Mongolian law
- Myanmar/Burma, Asian Legal Information Institute –
constitutions, law codes and law reports
- Online Burma/Myanmar Library, David Arnott –
with substantial space for legal resources
- Myanmar, World Digital Library
- Nepal Law Commission – with historical
documents in the section Law Archives
- Regmi Research Series Collection, Cornell
University
- Nepali textbooks, Cornell University
- Documents on the history
of religion and law in premodern Nepal, Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Heidelberg
- NLP Digital Collections, National Library of the
Philippines, Manilla
- Philippine e-Lib – a portal created by five
institutions, among them the National Library of the Philippines
- Filipinas Heritage Library, Ayala Museum, Makati
City – a general digital library with also books on law and justice
- Chan Robles Virtual Law Library – Philippine
and American law resources at the portal of a law firm
- Philippines Collection, John Carter Brown Library
– Internet Archive – with 36 titles a small but important digital
collection
- Digital Library, Miguel de Benavides Library and
Archives, University of Santo Tomas, Manila – a digital library and
archive, with old juridical books,
the Boletin Oficial de
Filipinas (1852-1860), the official gazette, Filipiniana materials (books,
periodicals and maps) and other collections.
- Qatar Digital Library, Qatar National Library – a
general digital library about Arab history and culture
- The history of Russian civil law – a portal
to the legal history of Russia; in Russian
- Digital Library, Russian State Library, Moscow
- Elektronnaia Biblioteka
GPIB, National Library of Russia, Saint Petersburg
- Digital Library,
National Library of Russia – interface in five languages
- Fundamental Digital Library Russian Literaure and Folklore –
interface Russian and English
- Elektronnaia Biblioteka Nauchnoe Nasledie Rossii (Digital
Library for the Scientific Heritage of Russia), Russian Academy of
Sciences – this library has a sizeable thematic section concerning state and law
- 1000 Schlüsseldokumenten zur russischen und sowjetischen
Geschichte (1917-1991), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
- Runivers – a general digital library with
some digitized nineteenth-century editions of collections with legal and historical sources, for
example treaties and legislation
- Russian Books, Internet Archive – some 17,000
works
- Классика Российского Права [Classics of
Russian Law] – a digital library with works of laywers and a digitized 16-volume
set of the Russian Code of Civil Law in the nineteenth
century
- Legal works of the Russian
S.F.S.R., Harvard Law School Library
- Books SG, National Library of Singapore – a
digital library with Malaysian manuscripts and a number of (recent) legal
works
- Singapore Statutes Online – with some older
statutes, in particular three Imperial Acts
- Legal Heritage,
Singapore Academy of Law – not a digital library, but a guide to
Singapore’s legal history
- Historical sources of Singapore Law, Lee Su-Lin,
National University of Singapore – a guide to (digitized) materials for
researching Singapore’s legal history; note also the guiide to Singapore Primary Sources by Nur Diyana
- Tamil Digital Heritage
Collection-Singapore Tamil Literature Digital Collection (1965-2015),
National Library Board
- Digital Library, National Library of South Korea,
Seoul – with an advanced search mode, for example for official
gazettes (1894-1945)
- Korean Law and History – an international
project with among other things a digital library
- Digital Library, Korean University Library – a
number of digital collections; interface Korean
- Jangseogak Archives – a very substantial
digital library with a wiki to
help your searches; interface Korean
- Digital Library, Supreme Court Library of Korea –
interface Korean
- Korean Literary Collection,
University of Washington – 135 works from the period 1945-1950
- KORCIS: Korean Old and Rare Collection Information System,
National Library of Korea and Harvard Yenching Library – some 470
digitized works
- National Digital Library, National Library of Sri Lanka, Colombo – with in
particular issues of the Ceylon Government Gazette (1889-1902)
- eBethArke: The Syriac Digital Library, Rutgers
University Libraries
- Digital Library, Natiobal Library of Thailand,
Bangkok
- Digital Collections, National Library of Thailand
- Legislative Institutional Repository of Thailand,
Parliamentary Library, Bangkok
- Sanya Dharmasakti Library
Collection, Thammasat University, Bangkok – a collection
concerning law and justice
- Truth for Reconciliation of Thailand Digital Database,
Thamassat University
- Dijital Kütüphane Sistemi (Digital Library
System), Millî Kütüphane (National
Library of Turkey), Ankara
- T.C. Resmî Gazete – the Turkish national
gazette, starting in 1921
- Laws since 1920,
Parliament of Turkey – a database for searching Turkish legislation;
Ottoman laws between 1908 and 1920 can be searched in another database
- TBMM Kütüphanesi Açık
Erişim Sistemi (Open Access Repository of the
Parliamentary Library) – three digital collections with recent and older
publications and images
- Atatürk Kitapligi,
Istanbul – a digital library with 40,000 books in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic
and Persian; interface Tukrish and English
- Farabi Digital Library – a general digital
library, interface Turkish and English
- Islam Arastirmalari Merkezi, Üsküdar – with in
particular the Osmanlı Salnâmeleri Veri
Tabanı, Ottoman yearbooks with provincial statutes and
ordinances, the Osmani Risaleler
Veri Tabini, 2,400 pamphlets with treatises, and the Osmanlıca Makaleler Veri
Tabanı, nearly 32,000 digitized Ottoman articles
- Kitaplar Veritabani (Books Database): Hukuk Fakültesi
(Faculty of Law), Ankara University – this digital
collection is part of the digital portal of Ankara University
- Ottoman-Turkish literature, Duke University
Libraries and Internet Archive – 216 books
- Fonds Indochine, National Library of Vietnam,
Hanoi – French publications from the seventeenth century onwards; interface
in English and Vietnamese
- Han Nom Collection, National Library of Vietnam –
interface Vietnamese
- Vietnam Nôm Manuscripts
Field Digitization Project, Temple University and The General
Library of Thừa
Thiên Huế
– some 125 manuscripts in the Nôm script
- The Han Nom Special
Collection, National Library of Vietnam, Hanoi, and the
Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation – a project for the conservation
and digitization of some 4,000 fragile manuscripts interface Vietnamese
and English
- Maurice Durand Han Nom
Handwritten and Woodblock Manuscripts, Yale University Library
– some 120 items
Australia and New Zealand; Oceania
- National Library of Australia, Digital Collections
- Historic Hansard, Tim Sherratt – for the period
1901-1980
- Australian Literary and Historical Texts,
University of Sydney
- Australian Federation Full Text Database,
University of Sydney – digitized debates from the 1890s; part of this
university’s Australian Digital Collections
- First Fleet and Early Settlement, University of
Sydney – a digital library about the early colonial period
- Australian Legal Information Institute – with
many databases on present and historical law, with in particular the Colonial Legal History
Library
- Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements Project,
University of Melbourne – a database for relevant documents
- Colonial Case Law, Macquarie Law School, Sydney –
a portal to several collections with historical cases, with a very useful
link collection, also for New Zealand
- Australiana Series, Digital
Collections, La Trobe University, Melbourne
- Legal Opinions: Selected Opinions of Attorneys-General of the
Commonwealth of Australia with Opinions of Solicitors-General and the
Attorney-General’s Department, 1901–50, Australian Government
and National Archives of Australia
- Jade – a database with access to cases,
verdicts, law reports and legislation since1903
- Digital NZ – Á-Tihi Aotearoa, National Library of
New Zealand – a portal to digitized sources at several institutions
- Parliamentary Papers, Papers Past, National
Library of New Zealand – also available at Appendix to the Journals
of the House of Representatives (interface English and
Maori)
- Historical Hansard,
Parliament of New Zealand / Pāremata Aotearoa – starting in 1854
- Early New Zealand Statutes, University of Auckland
– covering the period 1841 to 1940
- The New Zealand Digital Library, University of
Waikato – with collections both concerning New Zealand and other
continents
- British Parliamentary Papers. Colonies: New Zealand,
University of Waikato
- New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, Victoria
University of Wellington – among the projects is for example He Pātaka Kupu Ture – The
Legal Māori Archive
- Māori Land Legislation
Database, University of Auckland
- Early New Zealand Books, University of Auckland
Library
- New Zealand’s Lost Cases, Victoria University of
Wellington
- Law Commision / Te Aka Matua o te Ture – with
digitized reports, for example on Imperial legislation in force in New Zealand (1987), and
project information
- Pacific Rim Library – a digital library of a
consortium of 25 libraries; search interface in twenty languages
- Oceania Digital Library – a portal of the
University of Auckland Library, the University of California at San Diego
Libraries and the University of Hawai’i Library for the cultural heritage
of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia
- Pacific islands Legal Information Institute –
with for many islands historical information
- Indian Ocean Digital Collection, New York
University – a collection for among others islands such as Madagascar and
Mauritius
Europe
- Europeana – not only a portal to digital
libraries all over Europe, but also to archives, museums and audiovisual
collections, and also for example newspapers
- Early
European Books – Chadwyck – in The Netherlands
one has free access to digitized books from the Royal Library within this
collection
- Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Ost-Europa – sister
organisations and their portals are listed by the German Gemeinsamer
Bibliotheksverbund
- Project Runeberg – an online library for
Scandinavian literature; interface English and Swedish
- Post-Reformation Digital Library, Calvin College
and Calvin Theological Seminary – a portal to digitized works by
protestant authors in the Early Modern period
- Universal Short Title
Catalogue (USTC), University of St. Andrews – a portal
describing books from the fifteenth century onwards until 1700, originally
created for French books, with increasingly links to digital versions
- Digitale Bibliothek, Digitales Forum Mittel- und
Ost-Europa (DIFMOE) – with books about and from Riga, Pilzen, Brno,
Bratislava and Košice; interface German, Engish, Czech and Slovakian
- Early Modern Thought Online, FernUniversität
Hagen – a portal to digitized works printed between 1500 and 1800
- European History Primary Sources, European
University Institute, Florence – an online database for searching digital
collections of libraries, museums and archives; each project is briefly
introduced and described
- Gazettes européennes du 18e siècle
- e-Albanica, Biblioteka Kombëtare e Shqipërisë
[National Library of Albania], Tirana
- ALEX, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna –
historical legislation – including official gazettes – and administration,
parliamentary records, jurisprudence and legal journals
- ANNO: Austrian Newspapers Online – Historische Zeitungen und
Zeitschriften, ÖNB
- Archiv 1848, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek,
Vienna – documents on the revolution of 1848
- Wienbibliothek Digital
- Digitale Bibliothek, Universität Innsbruck and
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol – interface German and English
- Austrian Literature Online – a digital
library with books from the university libraries in Innsbruck, Graz and
Linz; interface German and English
- Digitale Landesbibliothek Oberösterreich –
interface German and English
- Books of Belarus, 14-18th centuries, National
Library of Belarus, Minsk – interface Belarussian, Russian and English
- Belgica, Royal Library, Brussels – a digital
collection with books and images, maps and medals; interface in Dutch and
French
- BelgicaPress, Royal Library – Belgian newspapers;
interface Dutch, French and English
- BelgicaPeriodicals, KBR – Belgian periodicals;
interface Dutch, French and English
- Flandrica: Erfgoedbibliotheken online – six
Flemish public libraries have partnered in this digital library with both
books and manuscripts from Flanders’ cultural heritage
- DONum BICfB – a portal to digitized books of
Francophone universities in Belgium
- Digital Heritage Online,
Bibliotheken KU Leuven – with subcollections, for example for historic
land registry and census reports
- Lovaniensia, Special Collections, KU Leuven and
Réserve patrimoine, UC Louvain – digitized Early Modern editions of works
by famous professors and alumni of Leuven
- ePatrimoine, DIAL.num, Université Catholique de
Louvain – a portal to three collections
- Galeries,
Université de Liége – a modest name for a digital library with the Fonds précieux juridiques
(XVIe-XIXe s.), including also law books for Liège and the
Southern Netherlands, and digitized placards publiés dans la
Principauté de Liège (ordinances)
- Digital Library, St. Cyril and St. Methodius
National Library, Sofia
- Digital collections,
Central Library, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Digital Library, National and University Library,
Zagreb
- Digitalne zbirke Nacionalne i sveučilišne knjižnice u Zagrebu –
a portal to more collections of the NSK
- METELwin Digital Library – a cooperative
project of Croatian libraries
- Czech Digital Library – a portal for several
digital libraries; inteface Cezch and English
- Ceska digitalni knihovna – another portal, currently
for ten libraries; interface Cezch and English
- Digitálni Knihovna – a second portal, not
only for libraries with digital collections, but also for a number of
Czech museums
- Kramerius, National Library of the Czech Republic,
Prague
- Národní digitální knihovna, National Library of
the Czech Republic, Prague, and the Moravská Zemská Knihovna,
Brno, with for the last separately the catalogue of the Historicke Fondy
- Digital Repository, Parliament of the Czech Republic,
Prague – parliamentary records from 1848 to 2003
- The Joint Czech and Slovakian Digital Parliamentary Library –
with Czech materials from 1861 onwards
- Czech medieval sources online, Centrum
medievistických studií, Prague – with several editions of charters and
other legal sources
- Václav Havel Library – a documentation center
with a digital library and archive; interface Czech and English
- Historická sbírka knihovny
Právnické fakulty (Historical works in the library of the
law faculty), Digitalní univerzitní
repozitár, Charles University, Prague – some 65 items, mainly
issues of the Austrian imperial gazette
- Ψηφιακή Πλατφόρμα, Κυπριακής Βιβλιοθήκης [Digital
Platform, Cyprus Library], Nicosia
- Studér Middelalder
på Nettet – texts in Old Danish, with also some legal
texts: the Jyske Lov, the Skånske Kirkelov and
the Flensborg Stadsret
- Eremit: Litteratur om København – digitized
literature on the history of Copenhagen
- E-Bøger, Det
Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen – some five hundred digitized old books
with legal works among them
- Gamle dankske love, Salldata – a selection of
Danish laws from 1576 until 2014 (only texts)
- Bøger, Sydslesvighistorie – a digital library for
the history of Southern Schleswig
- Digital Library,
National Library of Estland
- EEVA, Tartu
University and Estonian Literature Museum – a digital library with texts
up to the mid-nineteenth century; interface in Estonian, English, German
and Russian
- DSpace at Tartu University Library – in this
digital repertory you can find also older books, especially in German and
Russian
- Doria, National Library of Finland – digitized
books, maps, manuscripts and ephemera; interface Finnish, Swedish and
English
- Digitaaliset aineistot, Kansalliskirjasto,
Helsinki – the beta-version of a new platform for digital collections of
the Finnish National Library; interface Finnish, Swedish and English
- Gallica: Essentiels du
droit – the digital library Gallica of the Bibliothèque
nationale de France (BnF) has put together a number of the most important
digitized sources for French legislation and jurisprudence, including the
various series of the Journal officiel; you will find here also
editions of royal acts and materials for political thought and
history – in Gallica you will also find the years 1877 to 1921 of
the Nouvelle revue historique de droit français et étranger
- Fontes Historiae Iuris, Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire, Université Lille-II –
a portal to mainly French books from the 18th and 19th century, with
doctrine and jurisprudence, editions of coutumes, collections
of consultations and pleas, and a growing
section Archives judiciaires de l’Ancien Régime concerning
major courts
- Le Moniteur Universel (1789-1830), FSU
Libraries, Florida State University – a searchable version of this gazette nationale;
at Gallica you
can find the years 1789 to 1901
- Presse locale ancienne, BnF – newspapers from the
nineteenth century until 1944, partially also from the French colonial
empire
- Revues coloniales européennes – four colonial
journals, two of them can also be found at Revues coloniales de droit, Centre d’Histoire
Judiciaire, Université de Lille-2
- Bibliothèque Cujas, Pantheon-Sorbonne Paris I –
mainly digitized scientific literature on legal history
- Les constitutions de la
France, Conseil Constitutionnel – all French constitutions
from 1791 to 1958
- Digithèque de matériaux juridiques et politiques,
Université de Perpignan – a site with for example the French constitutions
since 1789, treaties and (links to) modern constitutions worldwide
- Criminocorpus – a website of the CNRS on
penal law with a digital library and digitized criminal legislation
- Médiathèque Gabriel Tarde, École nationale
d’administration pénitentiaire (ENAP), Agen – a digital library with three
collection
- Bibliothèque numérique de l’ENAP – with six
digitized collections
- Bibliothèque diplomatique
numérique, Ministère de l’Europe et des affaires étrangères – a
digital library with collections concerning diplomacy, treaties, the
history of diplomacy and international law
- Polib: Bibliothèque numérique patrimoniale,
Universités Lille I, II and III – with French law and much more, for
example the Parlement de Flandre; note the quick guides to
images and other important elements
- Napoleonica: archives et documents napoléoniens –
with documents concerning the Conseil d’Etat and the creation of the Code civil
- Napoleon Collection, McGill University, Montreal –
monographs, ephemera, manuscripts, maps, serials and prints; interface
French and English
- French Revolution Digital Archives /Archives numériques de la
Révolution française, Stanford University Library and
Bibliothèque nationale de France – a project with digitized parliamentary
records (1787-1794) in the series Archives parlementaires (volumes 1-82 of the
first series), including cahiers de doléance, and thousands of images; a data archive can be found at GitHub
- Archives parlementaires de la Révolution française,
Persée and Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution Française- the volumes
1-28 (1789-1791) and 96-102 (for the last months of 1794) of the première série for
the years 1787-1799 of this important source edition concerning the French
Revolution; there is an introduction in English and an author index
- Décrets et Lois 1789-1795: Collection Baudouin –
a French-American project for a digital library with the volumes of laws
and decrees published by François-Jean Baudouin during the French
Revolution
- Mazarinum, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris – in the
digital library of the oldest public library in France you can find many
things, also a number of old juridical works
- Digital sources,
Centre d’Histoire du Droit, Université Rennes-I – a growing and
instructive collection of sources and images
- Bibliothèque numérique
patrimoniale: Sciences juridiques, Université de Strasbourg –
some 120 digitized works
- Tolosana, la bibliothèque virtuelle des fonds anciens –
digitized books at the Université de Toulouse, with a substantial number
of legal works between 1500
and 1850, with in particular some 300 factums or mémoires judiciaires, pleas
by barristers printed to gain favor with the public and courts
- E-corpus: old Provencal
law, Université de Aix-en-Provence
- Droit et science politique,
Odyseé, Université de Aix-en-Provence – a selection with both Frnech law
and the Provence, including also a number of factums
- Édits, arrêts, ordonnances monétaires de
Hugues Capet à Louis XVI – French edicts, verdicts and monetary ordinances
- L’édit de Nantes et ses antécédents 1562-1598,
Ecole nationale de Chartes, Paris – editions of the pacification edicts
during the French wars of religion
- Yvette: Bibliothèque
numérique patrimoniale de l’Université de Paris-Sud – with
some 70 juridical works in the section Droit
- Les Premiers Socialismes, Université de Poitiers –
digitized works of nineteenth century French socialists
- Collections numérisées, Réseau des bibliothèques de Perpignan –
among these collections figure also legal documents
- Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes,
Université de Tours – editions from the 16th and 17th centuries, including
legal texts; iconographical search with Iconclass
- La Bibliothèque Humaniste Numérique, Sélestat
- Numelyo, Bibiliothèque numérique de Lyon,
Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon – among the collection Livres anciens you
will find some 700 juridical books
- Numistral,
Bibliothèque nationale universitaire, Strasbourg – a general digital
library, with also juridical works and special attention for rare
Scandinavian books
- Charles Bourdot de
Richebourg, Nouveau Coutumier Général (..) de France (4
vol., Paris 1724), Centre Lorrain d’Histoire de
Droit, Université Nancy 2
- Corpus juridique lorrain, Pulsar, Université de
Lorraine – some forty digitized books on customary law in the Lorraine
region
- Les Coutumiers du Centre-Ouest, Université de
Poitiers – sources for and commentaries on the customary law of the Poitou
region
- Patrimoine numérisé,
Bibliothèque municipale de Poitiers – here, too, some books and
manuscripts concerning customary law in the Poitou region
- Bibliothèque David Hoüard: bibliothèque numérique de droit
normand, Université de Rouen – with digitized manuscripts and
books on customary law in Normandy
- Fonds Ancien, Faculté de Droit, Université
Montesquieu-Bordeaux 4 – mainly coutumes for the Guyenne region and the city
of Bordeaux; these books can be quickly found in the section Patrimoine juridique at Babord-Num
- 1886: Collections patrimoniales numérises de Bordeaux-3, Université
Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux-3 – here, too, old legal and historical works
dealing with Bordeaux, Bayonne and Andorra
- Droit dauphinois,
Bibliothèque Droit-Lettres, Université Grenoble 2 et 3 – some digitized
works concerning the law in the Dauphiné region; in the collection
with works digitized on demand a
number of 19th-century studies concerning Roman law
- Narbolibris: Sciences
sociales, Bibliothèque Virtuelle de Grand Narbonne – this digital
library contains a fair amount of works of a legal and juridical nature
- Factums,
Gallica: Essentiels du droit – with access to digitized copies at the BnF and
other French libraries
- Droit en Provence et en
outre-mer, Aix et Marseille Universités – a great variety of
sources, in particular a number of digitized factums;
digital items only as PDF’s
- La Coutume et le droit en
Auvergne, Patrimoine de Bibliothèque de Clermont – a digital
collection of the Overnia portal with
a great variety of legal resources on customary law, in particular a few
hundred digitized factums, printed pleas of barristers (mémoires judiciaires)
- Bibliothèque numérique,
Université Clermont Auvergne – with five collections containing nearly
1,200 factums
- Droit,
Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève, Paris – nearly thousand digitized legal
works of this Parisian library at the Internet Archive, with 900
digitized factums and mémoires
judiciaires
- Digital Cullezione, BU Università di Corsica – a
digital library with four collections, inlcuding one for Droit
- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek – nearly 2,000
institutions work together in this new national digital library
(beta-version)
Das Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts. http://www.vd17.de/neu.html
Printed Material published in the 16th and 17th Century in the German-Speaking Areas (VD 16, VD 17). https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/en/sammlungen/vd16_17_suchergebnis.en.html?fq=dos_of%3A%2F%5C%2Fdigi%5C.ub%5C.uni-heidelberg%5C.de%5C%2Fcollection%5C%2Fsammlung(vd16%7Cvd17)%2F&fq=-meta_protected_b%3Atrue&qf=&q=&qf=meta_name_txt&q=&qf=meta_title_txt&q=&qf=meta_title_txt&q=german&resultset_restriction=auto&sort=sort_title_s%20asc&ui_lang=eng
Digitale Historische Bibliothek. Erfurt/Gotha. Digital Historical Library. https://dhb.thulb.uni-jena.de/servlets/solr/browse-inventory-restricted?q=projects:f5bd6e8e-15f7-45dd-9981-217bf20d2187&XSL.ForgetSearchTerms=true
- Textarchiv des Deutsches
Rechtswörterbuchs, Heidelberg – many editions of sources used
for this legal dictionary have been digitized, including sources from the
Low Countries; a sequel is the project Deutschsprachige Rechtsquellen in digitaler Edition for
the digitization of German legal sources in cooperation with the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte
- Deutsches Territorialrecht
von 1801 bis 1900, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – a project with
eventually some 13,000 books
- Digitale Bibliothek, Max-Planck-Institut für europäische
Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main – works from the period of
the Pandektistik, legal journals, dissertations from the Holy Roman Empire, and
sources on the institutions of the Holy Roman Empire in the Virtueller Raum Reichsrecht (ViRR)
- Gerhard Koebler, Universität Graz – apart from
German sources, including short biographies of lawyers, also materials
concerning Roman law
- Rechtsquellen der frühen
Neuzeit, Heidelberg – sources for early modern legal history
- Deutsches Textarchiv, Berlin-Brandenburgische
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin – here some classic juridical works
from the nineteenth century are present
- Freimann-Sammlung:
Rechtswissenschaft, Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main –
some 150 titles of this large digital collection of Jewish literature
concern Jewish and rabbinical law
- Savigny-Datenbank, Universitätsbibliothek Marburg
– a database with digitized letters to and from Friedrich Carl von Savigny
(1779-1861)
- Verhandlungen des Deutschen Reichstags –
parliamentary proceedings from 1867 until 1938, with now also biographies
of members of this parliament
- Preussische Rechtsquellen
Digital, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz
- Deutscher Reichsanzeiger
und Preußischer Staatsanzeiger, Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
– the various versions of these official gazettes from 1819 to 1945
- Digitale Reichsstatistik,
Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Hamburg and Kiel – a searchable
version of the original volumes (1873-1883), with also crime statistics
- Amtspresse Preussens, Staatsbibliothek zu
Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz – three newspapers close to the Prussian
state, the Teltower Kreisblatt (1856-1896) , the Provincial-Correspondenz (1863-1884)
and the Neueste Mittheilungen (1882-1894)
- Digitale Sammlungen, Staatsbibliothek zu
Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz – with now nearly 15,000 titles for Rechtswissenschaft
- ZEFYS: Historische
Zeitungen, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – with digitized German
newspapers, three DDR newspapers, and a database for searching old
newspapers worldwide
- Zeitungen des 17. Jahrhunderts, Staats- und
Universitätsbibliothek Bremen – with apart from German newspapers also
some from Vienna, Prague, Copenhagen and Swiss cities
- Digi-Hub, Universitätsbibliothek,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – with fields such as Rechtswissenschaft (110 items) and Rechts – und
Wirtschaftswissenschaft (250 items)
- Digitale Landesbibliothek Berlin
- Digitale Sammlungen, Sächsische Landes- und
Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden – juridical works are in particular
present among the editions from the seventeenth century
- CAMENA Historica et
politica, Universität Mannheim – early printed books on history
and political theory, mainly from Germany
- Europäische
Rechtsgeschichte, Universität Mannheim – some sixty Early
Modern works, mainly from Germany
- Verteilte Digitale Rechtsquellen, Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek – with the Bayerisches Gesetz- und
Verordnungsblatt, 1945-1949 and legislation of the Allied forces after 1945
- Münchner Altbestände,
Universitätsbibliothek Munich – manuscripts, incunabula, Early Modern books
and graphic materials
- Historische Bestände, Thüringer Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek, Jena
- Göttinger
Digitalisierungszentrum: Rechtsgeschichte – a growing
collection
- Digitale Sammlungen:
Rechtswissenschaft, Universitätsbibliothek Münster –
nearly thousand digitized works, and apart from that for example the Senden-Bödensell:
Mühlen’schen Bibliothek, a private library from Baroque Germany,
and juridical dissertations defended
at the university of Franeker
- Digitale Sammlungen
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf: Rechtsgeschichte –
old juridical works
- Digitale Sammlungen, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle: Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
- Alte Drucke 1520-1800,
Digitalisierte Bestände der Universitätsbibliothek Kiel – among these old
books are some works on government and law
- Jurisprudenz,
Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek, Universitätsbibliothek,
Augsburg – rare editions from the seventeenth century
- Digitale Sammlungen,
Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld: Rechtswissenschaft
- European Cultural Heritage Online: Legal History,
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin – at this moment
still very small
- Dilibri, Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz
– a digital library of this library and libraries in Koblenz, Mainz, Trier
and Worms, with emphasis on regional history
- Bamberger
Halsgerichtsordnung, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg – this ordinance
on criminal procedure became the leading example for the Constitutio Criminalis
Carolina (1532)
- Saarbrücker Bibliothek,
Universität Saarbrücken – with digitized text versions of a number of
studies on legal history
- Digitales Portal
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Rechtswissenschaft,
Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald – some eighty works, and additionaly
eleven juridical disputations
- Revolution, Rätegremien
und Räterepublik in Bayern, 1918/19, Bayerische
Landesbibliothek – documents – including pamphlets – and books on the
revolutionary period in Bavaria after the First World War
- DigiTue: Rechtswissenschaft,
Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen – a collection with a wide variety of
historical juridical works
- Digitale Bibliothek, Ostfriesische Landschaft –
with some works on Frisian law
- Digitale Sammlung
Deutscher Kolonialismus, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
Bremen – a project for the digitisation of some 500 works concerning
Germany’s colonial past
- Gesetze,
Internetportal Westfälische Geschichte – on this portal for the history of
Westphalia a number of collections with laws and ordinances has been
digitized (Münster, Kurköln, Minden, Paderborn; Kleef, Lippe) and five of
the so-called Reichsgrundgesetze
- Themis-Portal der historischen Gesetzessammlungen Thüringens,
Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Jena – legislation between
1815 and 1952, a section of the portal Thüringen Legislativ und
Executiv; with a separate search screen to the original publication in
the Gesetzblätter
- Landtagsprotokolle
Baden-Württemberg, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart
– parliamentary acts for Baden and Württemberg in several series from 1797
onwards until 1996
- Der Bayerische Landtag
digital, Bayerische Landesbibliothek – acts of the late
medieval and Early Modern Landtag (1429-1669) and from 1919 onwards
(1919-1933 and since 1946)
- Digital collections,
National Library of Greece, Athens – manuscripts, monographs and some
maps; interface Greek and English
- Hellenic Parliament, Digital
Library: Parliamentary Archives – with digitized
parliamentary proceedings between 1843 and 1935, and constitutions from
1797 onwards
- Pandektis – Digital Thesaurus of Primary Resources for Greek
Culture and History – a portal to several historical
collections, with for example inscriptions
- Anemi – Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies,
University of Crete – a general digital library with also studies in the
field of legal history
- Ergani – Historical Archive of the Aegean – a
general digital collection
- Psyfiake Bibliotheke / Serre Library – a
digital library with some legal works (search with subject Δικαιο)
- Hungarian Electronic Library, Budapest
- Országos Széchényi Könyvtár – Digitális Könyvtár,
National Széchényi Library – interface Hungarian and English
- Digital Library, Parliament Library, Budapest –
with laws, books, national and ministerial gazettes, legal journals,
parliamentary proceedings and decrees; interface Hungarian and English
- Open Society Archive, Central European University,
Budapest – with for example the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, but also Polish
and Russian documents
- Hungarian Parliamentary History, Vysegrad Digital
Parliamentary Library – documents from 1861 onwards
- Ezer év – Hungarian law texts from 1000 to 2003
- REAL-R: Rare Books & Manuscripts, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, Budapest – a digital library with also books from the
oriental collection
- Biblioteca Digitalis, Esztergomi Föszékesegyhási
Könyvtár – with a number of digitized sixteenth-century books from
the library of the Fuggers
- Reglugerðasafn [Ordinances Archive] –
ordinances since 1912
- Handrit – digitized medieval manuscripts and
old books of the Arnamagnaeanske Samling, Kopenhagen, the National and University Library and the
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, Reykjavik
- Tímarit, National and University Library,
Reykjavik – digitized journals from Iceland, Greenland and the Faroer,
with for example the official gazette Tíðindi um stjórnarmálefni
Íslands (1854-1874) and some years of its successor Stjórnartíðindi fyrir
Ísland
- Baekur, National and University Library, Reykjavik
– digitized old books from Iceland, with for example the Lovsamling for Island, Jón Sigurðsson et alii
(eds.) (21 vol., Kopenhagen 1853-1889), containing legislation and all
kinds of legal documents between 1096 and 1874
- Digital books, National and University Library,
Reykjavik – Internet Archive – some 1,400 books
- Islandica: A Series in
Icelandic Studies, Cornell University – some modern and some
older volumes in this book series have been digitized, in
particular Halldór Hermannsson, The Ancient Laws of Norway
and Iceland. A Bibliography (Ithaca, N.Y., 1911)
- Irish Penal Laws, M. Patricia Schaffer, University
of Minnesota – legislation concerning Ireland between 1558 and 1759
- Irish Statute Book – acts of the Oireachtas,
statutory documents and the legislative directory, from 1922 onwards; there
is also a section with a selection of resources until 1922
- Dublin Gazette, Oireachtas Library – a number of
issues of the official gazette (1705-1922) of the Irish Executive have
been digitized in open access
- Iris Oifigiúil – since 1922 the official
Irish gazette, the successor to the Dublin Gazette
- Act of Union Virtual Library, Queen’s University
Belfast – documents concerning the Act of Union (1800)
- Conflict Archive on the Internet, University of
Ulster – the conflict in Northern Ireland since 1968
- The Stormont Papers,
Fifty Years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates Online – from 1921
to 1972
- Corpus of Electronic Texts: Historical and Legal,
University College, Cork
- Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive,
University College, Dublin
- Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration,
Queen’s University, Belfast, and University of Ulster – with in particular
the database Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland
- Biblioteca digitale, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
di Roma
- Camera dei deputati – Portale storico –
digitized resources concerning the Italian parliament since 1848; you can
consult also the overviews at Legislature precedenti (from 1948 onwards
- Gazzetta Ufficiale – the digital official
gazette, with an archive (Archivio completo) for the Gazzette Ufficiali since
1946
- Emeroteca Digitale
Italiana, Internet Culturale – in this digital library for
periodicals you will find a number of regional gazzette
- Farnesina, Politica esteri e Storia, Ministero
degli Affari Esteri – diplomatic documents and a digital library
- Biblioteca digitale dell’unificazione giuridica, 1859-1870,
Ministero della Giustizia, Biblioteca Centrale Giuridica, Roma – this
collection gives you quick access to a number of regional codifications
and the first attemps at national codification
- Biblioteca Digitale
Sezione di Storia del diritto medievale e moderno, Università
degli Studi di Milano
- Gride e Gridari
Seicenteschi del Ducato di Milano (1600-1700), Lombardia Beni
Culturali – 47 digitized ordinances
- I gridari del ducato di Milano nel XVIII secolo,
Università degli Studi di Milano – sources for legislation in the Duchy of
Milan
- Le gride e gli editi dello Stato di Milano (1560-1796),
Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica, Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche – legislation in the Duchy of Milan; access after
registration
- Fondo antico presso la
Sezione storica della Biblioteca di Economia e Giurisprudenza,
Biblioteca Digitale Lombarda – some 200 books held at the Università di
Brescia
- Archivio lombardo della legislazione storica –
sources for public law in Lombardy between 1749 and 1859
- Raccolta per ordine di materie delle leggi, editti,
manifesti…Real Casa di Savoia, F.A. Duboin (ed.) (Turin
1818-1860), Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes – a mulitvolume
collection with legislation for both the duchy Savoye and the kingdom
Sardinia (1661-1798)
- Biblioteca Francesco
Calasso, Istituto di Storia del Diritto Italiano, Università La
Sapienza, Rome
- Statuti di Liguria, Università degli Studi di
Genova – on this website created by Rodolfo Savelli you can find the texts
of several medieval Ligurian city statutes with a bibliography on them
- Testi di Pisa: elencho di fonti storiche e documentarie
medievali, Università degli Studi di Pisa – medieval (legal)
sources from Pisa
- Statuti di Pistoia,
Società Pistoiese di Storia Patria – digitized editions of medieval
charters for several ecclesiastical institutions and comunal statutes from
Pistoia
- Statuta Reipublicae Senensis, Mario Ascheri and
Silvio Pucci (eds.), Università di Siena – a searchable database
- Storia Medievale, Fonti e Strumenti, Dipartimento
di Storia, Università degli Studi di Siena – with for example
constitutions for clerics, legislation on Chianti, and (juridical)
documents of the Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala, and also a bibliography
on medieval Siena; there is also a section with studies
- Statuti di Vicenza, 1264 – an edition accompanied
by a bibliography which touches also technical matters
- De Statutis, Università degli Studi di Bologna –
medieval statutes, among them the city statutes of Bologna from 1376, and
a bibliography
- Biblioteca Digitale, Società Ligure di Storia
Patria – among the digitized editions (PDF’s) are Gli statuti di Albega del
1288 and a register of a thirteenth-century notarius sacri palatii
- Sardegna Digital Library, Regione Sardegna – with
also old juridical texts
- Vox Venetica: Bandi della
Repubblica Venezia di secoli 16-17, Venice, Fondazione Querini Stampalia – already nearly
3,300 digitized legal proclamations
- Editti e bandi pontifici,
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense – (printed) papal documents concerning the
inquisition, 16th-18th century; using the Casanatense’s Scaffali Digitali one finds also a number of
digitized old journals and books
- Bandi e bolle pontificie
del XVI secolo, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome – 1,000
papal edicts and bulls from the sixteenth century
- La Raccolta dei Bandi
Merlani, Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio – many
thousands municipal ordinances and decrees of the cardinal-legate for
Bologna from 1601 to 1796
- Biblioteca Digitale, Biblioteca Pinacoteca
Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan – digitized manuscripts, incunabula, Early
Modern books and journals in Italy’s oldest public library
- Biblioteca Digitale Trentina. Biblioteca comunale
di Trento – a digital library with various collections, including Tridentina manifesta with
nearly 3,000 ordinances
- Digitalizzazione Fondi Antichi, Università di
Modena e Reggio Emilia – mainly juridical books from the Este period
- Manuali e letteratura, Instituto Centrale per gli Archivi, Rome – with
for example the Bullarium Romanum (24 vol., Torino
1857-1872)
- Imago Historiae, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
– several digitized early editions of Italian Renaissance historians
- La Repubblica Romana del 1849 – a database
which contains also legal documents
- Biblioteca digitale sulla camorra, Università
degli Studi di Napoli
- Biblioteca digitale, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
di Firenze, Florence – in the section Libro Antico it
is in particular the Fondo Magliabechiano where you can find
numerous digitized juridical works
- Biblioteca Europea di
Informazione e Cultura – a general digital library portal
with a collection Diritto europeo e medievale with
digitized microfilms of medieval legal manuscripts, old law books and
statutes; among other things you get access to digitized incunabula
with texts in Italian, and search possibilities in other digital libraries
- Biblioteca Digitale,
Fondazione Mansutti per la storia dell’assicurazione, Milan – six
digitized Early Modern treatises about insurance
- Libri antichi e di pubblico dominio delle biblioteche
giuridiche dell’Università degli Studi di Padova, Phaidra:
Collezioni digitali, Università degli Studi di Padova – some 470 old legal
books at the university of Padua, and 150 modern works by Italian lawyers;
interface Italian, English. German and Serbian
- E-book, Istituto Internazionale di Storia
Economica F. Datini, Prato – several series of digitized publications
concerning economic history, including works by F. Melis; the Serie Oro: Volumi antichi contains 80
Early Modern books with some legal works
- Biblioteca Digitale Siciliana, Università degli
Studi di Catania – with old legal books from Sicily in the Collezione della Biblioteca delle Scienze Giuridiche
- DigitUNO: Collezioni digitalizzate dell’Università di Napoli
“L’Orientale” – digitized books, maps and some
manuscripts, all documenting the period of Italy’s colonial empire
- Digital Library, National Library of Latvia – here
also for example old maps
- Epaveldas – the central digital library of
Lithuania
- Teisés Aktu Registras (Register of Legal
Acts) – Lithuanian legislation, partially from 1940 onwards, mostly
starting with 1990
- Digital Library, Vilnius University Library
- Digital Library, National and University Library
St. Clement of Ohrid, Skopje
- DigiVault, National Library of Malta – the general
digital library of Malta
- Luxemburgensia online, Bibliothèque nationale de
Luxembourg
- Delpher, Royal Library, The Hague – including
works from the project Early Dutch Books Online (1780-1800),
journals and newspapers, and also official gazettes as the Staatscourant and
the Staatsblad, including those for the Dutch Indies
- Boeken en handschriften, Bijzondere Collecties, Universiteit van Amsterdam
– both books and manuscripts, see also the overview of image databases and
digital collections
- Beeldbank, Bibliotheek Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam – a simple name for a portal with digitized books, manuscripts,
portrait paintings, Bible illustrations, maps and journals
- Leesmuseum, Bibliotheek Arnhem – in its digital
library this public library has digitized also a number of legal works
- Digital Collections, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen –
here in particular 127 Papyri Groninganae and also
the Institutional Repository; the law faculty has its
own collection with a section for Ph.D. theses
- Digitale Collectie, Tresoar, Leeuwarden – with for
example some manuscripts concerning Old Frisian law and some court files
of famous trials
- Digital Special Collections, Leiden University
Library – a growing variety of digitized books, manuscripts and archival
collections
- Colonial Collection, Royal Tropical Institute –
this digital collection contains some 1300 books and many scientific
journals, many of them touch upon law and justice; since 2013 the
collection is managed at Leiden
- Project Digitalisering
Erfgoed, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen – simple but effective
access to digitized books with six alphabetical lists; there is now also a
portal for the digital Bijzondere Collecties [Special Collections]
with both manuscripts and books
- Digitized Objects Special
Collections, Bijzondere Collecties,
Utrecht University Library
- Dutch Government
Publications, Internet Archive – apart from official
publication you can find here the Staatsblad, the Staatscourant,
the Tractatenblad (for treaties), parliamentary
reports and much more
- Det digitale Nasjonalbiblioteket,
Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo
- Digitale bøker, Digitalarkivet, Arkivverket – this
digital library contains some books on old law (Gamle lov)
- Dokumentasjonsprosjektet, Universitetet i Oslo – a
portal to several text collections and research tools such as the Diplomatarium Norvegicum and
the Regesta Norvegica
- Minuskel, Universitetet i Oslo – a digital library
- Lovdata – a website of the Ministry of
Justice and Oslo University for Norwegian legislation, both in Norse and
English, with also historical legislation
- Medieval Nordic Text Archive (Menota) – with
the accompanying portal where you will find dictionaries and
much more
- Gamle bøker fra UB Bergens Spesialsamlinger,
Digitalt, Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen – digitized older printed works
- Digital corpus and dictionary of Norwegian medieval Latin,
Nasjonalbiblioteket
- Dommers populærnavn, Universitet i Oslo – a
database with popular names of judicial verdicts
- Polona, National Library of Poland, Warsaw
- Dziennik Ustaw – the Polish gazette from 1918
onwards
- Parliamentary documents
1919-1991, Biblioteka Sejmova, Warsaw
- Parliamentary documents of the Second and Third Republic,
Vysegrad Digital Parliamentary Library – documents for the period 1919 to
1939 and from 1989 onwards
- Digital Library of Polish and Poland-related News Pamphlets –
pamphlets from the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century
- Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych (Digital
Libraries Federation) – a network of more than hundred digital libraries
in Poland; interface Polish and English
- e-Koleckzja Czasopism Polskich, Biblioteka
Uniwersytecka w Warszawie and Biblioteka Narodowa – digitized Polish
newspapers
- Biblioteca Nacional Digital, Biblioteca Nacional
de Portugal, Lisbon – you can find here also juridical texts
- Memória, Biblioteca Nacional Digital – a selection
of digitized books with a section for Direito
- Registo Nacional de Objetos Digitais, Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal – a portal for searching digitized books and other
objects in Portuguese libraries
- Biblioteca Digital Camões:
Historia – this section of the digital library of the
Centro Virtual Camões contains some works concerning law, legislation and
the colonial period
- Hemeroteca Digital, Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa
- Ius Lusitaniae, Fontes Históricas de Direito
Português, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Legislação régia,
Assembleia da República – Portuguese legislation between 1603 and 1910;
also available at the website of the Diário da Repúblic Eletrónico, the official
gazette
- Debates Parlementares – parliamentary debates
from 1822 to the present
- Corpus Legislativo da Idade Média Anotado (CLIMA),
Universidade Lusiada, Porto – a portal for a repertory of royal
legislation, procedural law and local ordinances
- Lei e Jurisprudéncia, Faculdade de Direito,
Universidade de Lisboa – digitized legislation between 1821 and 1910
- Biblioteca Digital,
Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Alma Mater: Biblioteca de Fundo Antigo de UC,
Universidade de Coimbra – a digital library with a section Biblioteca Digital da Faculdade de Direito;
interface Portuguese and English
- Biblioteca Digital, Faculdade de Direito da
Universidade de Coimbra
- Ordenações Afonsinas (1446), Instituto de
História e Teoria das Ideias, Universidade de Coimbra
- Ordenações Manuelinas (1511-1512),
Universidade de Coimbra
- Ordenações Filipinas (1603), Universidade de
Coimbra
- Biblioteca Digital Justiça
na I República, Ministério da Justiça – digitized books and
images and historical portraits of ministers between 1910 and 1926
- Materiais para a História Eleitoral e Parlamentar Portuguesa
1820-1926, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal – a portal on the
history of elections, with not only legislation and parliamentary debates,
but also images and a bibliography
- Portugal and Brazil Collection, John Carter Brown
Library – Internet Archive – a collection with some 1,600 titles
- Arquivo Digital, O Governo dos Outros: Imaginários
Políticos no Império Português, Universidade de Lisboa – a selection of
mainly legislative sources for Portugal and its colonial empire (PDF’s)
- Biblioteca Digitala Nationala, Biblioteca
Nationala a Romaniei, Bucarest
- Biblioteca Digitală a Bucureştilor, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Bucarest – the
digital library of the Rumanian Academy of Sciences
- Biblioteca digitala Restitutio, Biblioteca
Centralâ Universitarâ Carol I, Bucarest
- Digital National Library of Serbia, Narodna biblioteka Srbije, Beograd
- Sluzbeni glasnik – the official Serbian
gazette from 1992 onwards
- Digital collections, Belgrad University Library –
interface Serbian, English and German
- The Joint Czech and Slovakian Digital Parliamentary Library,
Vysegrad Digital Parliamentary Library – with Slovakian materials
from 1939 onwards
- Cassovia Digitalis: Die digitale Stadtbibliothek –
a German project with digitized books from and about Košice
- Digitalna, Univerzitná kninica v Bratislave,
Bratislava – a general digital library; interface in nine languages
- Digital Library of Slovenia – the digital
library of the National and University Library
- Sistory Zgodovina Slovenije [Portal for
Slovenian History] – with access to digitized archival collections, books
and journals, including census records, official gazettes, parliamentary
debates and legislation; interface Slovenian and English
- Kamra: digitalarana kulturna dedišcina slovenskih pokrajin [Kamra,
digitized cultural heritage of Slovenian regions] – a portal with mainly
digital collections from a number of libraries; interface Slovenian,
Hungarian, English and Italian
- Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, Biblioteca Nacional
de España, Madrid
- Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico –
a portal to manuscripts and printed book in Spanish digital collections
- Hemeroteca Digital, Biblioteca Nacional de España,
Madrid – with also legal periodicals and collections of laws and decrees,
filter e.g. for Derecho
- Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica, Ministero
de Cultura y Deporte
- Biblioteca Digital, Real Academia de la Historia,
Madrid
- Biblioteca de la Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y
Legislación, Madrid
- Legislación Histórica de España, Ministério de
Cultura, Madrid – a searchable database with digital facsimiles on both
Iberian and Latin-American legislation
- Legislación histórica de la España (1810-1978),
Congreso de los Diputados – a searchable database to find digitized
legislative and constitutional texts
- LegisHca: Legislación Histórica en red,
Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche – a database for searching legislation
from the nineteenth century until 1939
- Boletín Oficial del Estado,
Gobierno de España – digitized versions of the Gazeta from
1661 to 1959
- Constituciones Españolas,
Ministerio de la Presidencia, Centro de Estudios Políticos y
Constitucionales, Madrid
- Biblioteca Virtual
Constitución 1812, Fundación Centro de Estudios Constitucionales
1812, Cádiz – the 1812 constitution, the deliberations in the Córtes since
1810, and the liberal journal El Conciso (1811-1814); the bicentennial of
this constitution is the subject of several special websites,
for example at the Aula Universitaria
Iberoamericana, Universidad de Cadiz
- Universidad Autonomá Madrid, Biblioteca del Derecho –
a wonderful overview of relevant digital libraries, and supplemented by
the Fondo Antiguo of Biblos-e Archivo, the UAM’s digital library
- Biblioteca Digital de
Textos del Español Antiguo: Textos legales españoles, Hispanic
Seminary of Medieval Studies – mainly fueros and
the Siete Partidas, with concordances
- Biblioteca Digital
Dioscórides: Derecho, Universidad Complutense Madrid
- Biblioteca Histórica Digital, Colegio de Abogados,
Madrid
- Libros y Folletos,
Biblioteca Digital, Ateneo de Madrid
- PixeLegis, Universidad de Sevilla, Biblioteca
del Derecho y Ciencias del Trabajo
- Fondos Digitales: Fondo Antiguo, Universidad de
Sevilla – here, too, one can find digitized juridical works – see also the
Internet Archive, in particular for porcones, allegaciones
juridicas and pleitos
- Biblioteca Virtual de Derecho Aragonés – both
modern Spanish law and sources for legal history
- Repositorio Documental, Fondo Antiguo, Universidad
de Granada – with many juridical works
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel
de Cervantes: Derecho, Jurisprudencia – a part of this
comprehensive digital repository is devoted to legal history and
jurisprudence
- Historia del Derecho, Repositorio Institucional,
Universidad de Oviedo – some 400 books
- Bizkaika Foru Aldundia –
Digital Library, Bilbao – works in Basque, Spanish and Latin
- Biblioteca Digital: Biblioteca Histórica,
Universidad de Salamanca
- Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía, Consejería de
Cultura, Granada
- Biblioteca Digital,
Universidad de Murcia – within this digital library you will find old
editions in the Biblioteca Digital
Floridablanca
- Biblioteca Saavedra Fajardo de Pensamiento Político Hispánico,
Universidad de Murcia
- Coleccións dixitais, Biblioteca Universitaria de
Santiago de Compostela – with texts in Galician
- Biblioteca Virtual Joan Lluís Vives – this
virtual library contains also juridical books
- Fondos digitalizados,
Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona – not only manuscripts, printed books,
maps and music scores, but also medieval charters and the Cadastre d’Aparici (1714-1718);
interface Catalan, Spanish and English
- Memòria Digital de Catalunya (MDC) – a portal
to several digital collections, for example on the Spanish Succession War,
the reign of Fernando VII and Isabella II (1814-1868), and the incunables
of the Biblioteca de Catalunya; interface Catalan, Spanish and English
- Legislació històrica catalana impresa (1481-1706),
Illustre Collegi d’Advocats de Barcelona – both legislation and
commentaries; part of the Memòria Digital de
Catalunya
- Legislació histórica del
Corona d’Aragó, Illustre Collegi d’Advocats de Barcelona (MDC)
– 72 Early Modern printed works with historical legislation, some
commentaries and treatises for the kingdom of Aragón
- Els Llibres del Consolat
del Mar, Illustre Collegi d’Advocats de Barcelona (MDC) – nine
Early Modern editions of this famous text on maritime law
- Llibres impreses, Segle
XVI, Biblioteca del Ateneu Barcelonès – in particular juridical
works from the sixteenth century
- Biblioteca Patrimonial Digital, Universitat de
Barcelona – with five collections concerning law (dret)
- Biblioteca Valenciana
Digital – searching for example for “Dret” (Law) yields a
lot of books
- SOMNI, Fondo histórico, Universidad de Valencia
- Cortes de Aragón, Fondo
Documental Histórico, Zaragoza – books, manuscripts, maps and
drawings
- Fons de literatura
juridica antiga, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona – a small
collection accessible at the portal Memòria Digital de Catalunya
- Biblioteca Digital de Castilla y Léon – here,
too, one can find digitized works of a legal nature
- Bilketa, portail des fonds documentaires basques –
a digital library with Basque sources; interface Basque and French
- LIBRO: The Library of
Iberian Resources Online, University of Central Arkansas –
online editions of modern scholarship on Iberian history
- Biblioteca Digital Loyola: Patrimonio Bibliografico,
Universidad Deusto (Bilbao/San Sebastian)
- Biblioteca Hispanica,
AECID, Madrid – a digital library created by the Spanish ministry for
foreign affairs with historical works
- Fondo histórico, Biblioteca Digital Universidad de
Alcalá – some 250 works from the sixteenth to the twentieth century
- Sondera – a search portal for searching with
one action in the Swedish Libris library portal, the national archival
database and audiovisual documents; interface Swedish and English
- Alvin – portal for cultural heritage collections –
a portal for digital collections of three Swedish university libraries
(Göteborg, Lund and Uppsala) and some city libraries; interface Swedish and
English
- Digitaliserat material,
Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm – with various digital collections
- Statens offentliga utredningar (1922-1999),
Kungliga Biblioteket – digitized versions of reports on proposed
legislation, with also a free text search version (Universitet
Linköping)
- Digitaliserat rikstagstryck 1521-1970, Kungliga
Biblioteket – 450 years of parliamentary papers and government
publications
- Svenska Dagstidningar, Kungliga Biblioteket –
Swedish newspapers
- Digitala samlingar, Umeå Universitet – among the
digitized rare books are a few books concerning Juridik;
interface Swedish and English
- Fornsvenska textbanken, Lunds Universitet – a
collection of digitized texts in Old Swedish, with pride of place for the
volumes of the Samling af Sveriges Gamla Lagar (1827-1877)
- Litteraturbanken – texts or scans of literary
works and books on cultural history; interface Swedish and English
- e-Helvetica, Swiss National Library, Bern – the
beta-version of its digital library
- Bibliothèque numérique
RERO DOC – with an user interface in four languages
- e-rara, Swiss electronic library – a digital library
portal for old editions, with a search interface in English, German and
French
- e-periodica, Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule,
Zürich – a portal to digitized Swiss journals; interface German, English
and Frnech
- Amtsdruckschriften,
Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv, Bern – the Bundesblatt from
1848 onwards, diplomatic documents for 1848-1945, Bundesratsprotokolle 1848-1882,
and the Amtliches Bulletin der Bundesversammlung 1971-1995
- Verfassungsgeschichte, A. Tschentscher, Bern –
Swiss constitutions and constitutional documents; there are also sections
for the United Kingdom and the United States
- Retrodigitized Journals – among these
journals are the Gesetze, Dekrete und Verordnungen des Kanton Berns (1811-1993)
- Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen online (SSRQ),
Rechtsquellenstiftung des Schweizerischen Juristenvereins – digitized
versions of the earlier series with source editions; interface in German,
French and Italian
- Rechtsquellen Online,
Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich – with more search functions than at SSRQ;
interface German
- DigiBern: Berne Kultur und Geschichte im Internet,
Universitätsbibliothek Bern – with a section Gesetze und Verordnungen, there is also attention
for the lawyer Eugen Huber
- Biblioteca digitale del
Cantone Ticino
- Bodmer Lab, Fondation Martin Bodmer and Université
de Genève – several digitized special collections
- Ukrainica,
National Library of Ukraine, Kiev
- Old Printed Books, digital repository of European rarities,
National University of Kyiv, Kiev – some 1300 books; interface Ukrainian
and English
- Izbornyk – digitized sources and materials
concerning Ukrainian and Russian history
- Diasporiana Elektronike Bibliotheke – a
general digital library
- Rare books, I Mechnikov University, Odessa – with
juridical works amond the old books; interface Ukranian, Russian and English
- The Gazette – not only the modern official
notices, but also from the London, Belfast and Edinburgh gazettes
- Legislation, The National Archives – mostly modern
legislation, but also 79 acts in the Acts of the English Parliament (1267-1709)
and 58 acts in the Acts of the Parliament of
Great Britain (1707-1800)
- Cambridge Digital Library, University of Cambridge
– with for example books from Montaigne’s library
- Oxford Digital Library
- Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services
- Text Creation Partnership – with Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century
Collections Online (ECCO) and Evans Early American
Imprints; also available through the University of Oxford Text Archive
- Digital Library, University of Leeds
- Image collections,
University of Manchester Library
- Warwick Digital Collections, University of Warwick
- York Digital Library, University of York – with
also items from York Minster
- Digital Collections, University College, London
- Digital Collections, The Warburg Institute, London
– not only books about art, philosophy, Classical Antiquity and the
Renaissance
- Digital Library, London School of Economics
- Digital Gallery, The National Library of Wales –
with several digital collections
- Digital Gallery, National Library of Scotland,
Edinburgh – with numerous digital collections
- Glasgow Digital Library, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow
- Digitized books,
manuscripts and photographs, Glasgow University
- Scottish Distributed Digital Library – a
portal to digital collections in Scotland
- Historical directories of
England & Wales, Special Collections, University of
Leicester – nearly 700 directories from the 1850s, the 1890s and the
1910s, some even from around 1760
- DigiVatLib, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana –
online catalogues and digital collections of an incomparable library
- Verfassungen der Welt – a portal to
historical constitutions from Germany, Austria and Schweiz, and
constitutions in German translation; there is also an English counterpart
at International Constitutional Law (Universität
Bern)
- Archivio delle Costituzioni Storiche, Dipertimento
di Studi Giuridiche, Università di Torino – historical constitutions in
English, French and Italian translations
- Biblioteca de Historia Constitucional Francisco Martínez
Merina, Universidad de Oviedo – works on constitutional law,
with also Spanish translations
- Constitutions du monde, Digithèque des matériaux
juridiques et politiques, Université de Perpignan – mainly modern
constitutions
- The Rise of Modern Constitutionalism, 1776-1849 –
a site with facsimiles of constitutions in open access
- National Constitutions, Constitutional Society –
many texts in English, but also in the original language(s)
- Constitution Finder, University of Richmond School
of Law – formelry a site with not just today’s constitutions, but also
historical versions, drafts and amendments – taken over by the Constitute
Project
- Constitute Project – an offspring of
the Comparative Constitutions Project, University of
Texas at Austin; interface English, Spanish and Arabic
- Constitutions –
a Russian project with a digital library and sometimes many translations
of constitutions; interface Russian and English
- Constituciones
Hispanoamericanas, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- Africa, Oxford Constitutions of the World and
Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, University of
Pretoria – constitutions and country reports for African countries
- Europäische Friedensverträge der Vormoderne,
Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz – peace treaties from Early
Modern Europe
- Oxford Historical Treaties, Oxford University
Press – a licensed resource with luckily some useful overviews and also the
basic search function in open access
- The Multilaterals Project, Fletcher School, Tufts
University – mostly after 1945, but with some older treaties, with links
to other projects
- Flare Index to Treaties,
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London – 2,000 treaties from 1353 to
1815
- United Nations Treaty Collection – with
the League of Nations Treaty
Series and the United Nations Treaty
Series Online; you can consult separately the League of Nations Treaties (1921-1931)
- The World Treaty Index – a database for
bilateral and multilateral treaties from the 20th and 21st centuries – see
also the former WTI database (Washington
University) for 1945-1999
- International Treaties Collection, World Legal
Information Institute – always useful
- Bibliothèque Virtuelle de la Méditerranée – a
relatively small digital library with some legal works; interface in
French, English, Italian and Arabic
- Text Creation Partnership, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor – a portal for researching the texts within the
projects Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century
Collections Online (ECCO) and Evans Early American
Imprints
- Réseau francophone numérique – a digital
library of twenty-four national and other libraries worldwide
- E-corpus – a portal for a number of libraries
in France and elsewhere, with for example books on (Arabic) codicology (Arles), old Provencal law (Aix-en-Provence)
and islamic law (Marseille);
user interface in seven languages
- Bibliothèque numérique, Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris – in this digital
library with some 1,200 works you can find legal literature in the
section Sciences sociales
- The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative,
University of California at Los Angeles and Max-Planck-Institut for the
History of Science, Berlin
- ETANA – Electronic Text and Ancient Near
Eastern Archives – archeological findings and (juridical) texts,
translations from the Akkadic, and the ABZU Bibliography
- Audiovisual Library of International Law, Historic Archives,
United Nations
- Piracy Trials, Library of Congress, Law Library –
digitized pre-1900 printed accounts of piracy trials and studies about
piracy
- Rare Books,
Georgetown Law library – with old legal dictionaries,
works on legal palaeography,
and works concerning Scottish law
- Arabic Collections Online, New York University –
this university presents together with other American universities and the
University of Abu Dhabi a general digital library with some 5,000 books
- Werke der
Kolonialbibliothek, Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main –
some 2,400 digitized books concerning colonial history
- Patrimoines Partagés, BnF, Paris – a new digital
portal about shared heritage, with already sections for the Near East,
Japan, Brazil and Poland
- United Nations Digital Library – a digital
library with documents, speeches and publications; interface with six
languages
- UNESCO Digital Library – interface in six
languages
- SOAS Digital Collections, School of Oriental and
African Studies, London – with for example collections about politics and government and law, and also digitized archival collections
- The Medieval Canon Law Virtual Library, Colby
College and Columbia University
- Les classiques des sciences sociales, Université
de Québec à Chicoutimi – not just texts by great thinkers in the social
sciences, but also useful references to more information
- Archive for the History of Economic Thought,
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario – albeit a text-only collection,
its range remains very wide
- Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900),
Bournemouth University and University of Cambridge -see also the digitized
texts in the Archivio Marini, Università degli Studi di Pisa
- Digital Library of the Commons, Indiana University
– shared rights on resources and their history
- Savigny-Bibliothek, Yokohama, Toin University – a
part of Savigny’s library is now in Japan, and some books in it have been
digitized
- Gallica, bibliothèque numérique –
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
- Digitale Sammlungen, Münchener
Digitalisierungszentrum – in Munich an astonishing number of old books and
manuscripts has been digitized; searchable by subject and collection;
among the collections is for example Digi20, a selection of German scientific
literature between 1950 and 2000
- Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke –
a portal to digitized books in Germany, with a survey of digitized collections
- Digitalisierte Drucke, Hochschulbibliothekszentrum
des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Cologne – another portal to digitized
books in Germany
- ZEFYS: Historische
Zeitungen, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – with digitized German
newspapers, three DDR newspapers, and a database for searching old
newspapers worldwide
- The Philological Museum, Dana F. Sutton – the
well-known bibliography of digitized Neo-Latin texts
- Digital Book Index – however biased to texts
in English nonetheless very useful, with books on many subjects all over
the world, including also law
- Universal Digital Library, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh – just for law already some 26,000 books; in
particular strong for texts from India and China
- The Internet Archive – here, too, you can
find an ever increasing number of digitized books, often from renown
libraries; the user interface can be tuned nicely to your wishes
- World Digital Library – despite its relatively
small size especially for small countries certainly important; apart from
books there are also digitized journals, maps. manuscripts and audiovisual
resources; interface in seven languages
- Hathi Trust Digital Library – searching for
subjects with “Full view” checked yields interesting results in this
project of several large American and European university libraries
- The Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania
– useful lists on many subjects with links to digitized books
- Endangered Archives Project, British Library –
this library supports worldwide projects for describing, conserving and
digitizing rare and fragile archives and library collections
- Getty Research Portal – searching for the
subject Law brings you a few hundred digitized early
printed books
- The Statutes Project: Putting Historic British Law Online,
John Levin – a portal to digitized versions of parliamentary laws printed
before 1914, including former British colonies (Barbados, Grenada,
Jamaica; India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar; New Zealand); Levin has also started
to make a repository with OCR-ed
statutes
- Cornell University
Library: Law, Internet Archive – nearly one thousand digitized
works, mainly on Anglo-American law
- Islamic Lithographs
Collection, McGill University, Montreal – 650 books from the
Middle East, North Africa and South Asia
- Islamic Lithographs
Collection, University of Chicago – until now some fifty books,
many of them concern Islamic law
- Biblioteca Islamica,
AECID, Madrid – a digital library with books and manuscripts, including
legal works
- Al-Furqan Digital Library – a digital library
for Arabic books
- Islamic Heritage Project,
Harvard Digital Collections – both manusrcipts and printed works,
including books on Islamic law
- War Manifestos Database, Yale Law Library – war
manifestos issued by sovereigns between 1492 and 1945
- Eastview Global Press
Archive: Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers, Center
for Research Libraries – newspapers issued between 1877 and 1972
- Netzwerk Internetressourcen Geschichte (History Guide),
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen – a useful guide to online
materials for historians
- Documents per a la
Historia / Documents for History (1750-2010), Universitat
Autònoma Barcelona – Internet Archive – a guide to digital libraries,
archives, repositories and other digital collections, alas suspended in
2016; interface in six languages; you can now use the database Recursos de historia económica, social y política
- Bibliostoria,Biblioteca di Scienze della Storia e
della Documentazione Storica, Università degli Studi di Milano – a
searchable database with descriptions of digitized historical resources
- Wikisource DE: Digitale Sammlungen – an
overview of digital collections in German
- NetBibWiki: DigiMisc – there are more lists
of digital libraries on this website
- DMOZ Open Directory
Project: Digital Libraries – after twenty years DMOZ
stopped its service in 2017, here an archived version
- Digitalisierungsprojekte, Jurawiki – this
commented links list focuses on Germany and Spain; no additions since 2008
- Clio Guide. Ein Handbuch zu digitalen Ressourcen für die
Geschichtswissenschaften – this guide is certainly be
useful in its second edition (2018)
- Universal Short Title
Catalogue (USTC), University of St. Andrews – an online
catalog for finding Early Modern books, originally created for
sixteenth-century French books, but growing in its coverage of European
book production upto 1700
- Short Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN)
- Short Title Catalogus
Vlaanderen (STCV), Flemish Heritage Libraries – for
Flanders, with also documentation on the methods used
- Apparaat Kalma (Dick Eisma), Tresoar, Leeuwarden –
a catalogue of Frisian imprints until 1800
- VD16 –
sixteenth-century German books, now with links to digitized copies at the
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich and
the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Halle
- VD17 – German books from the seventeenth
century
- VD18 – the sequel for the eighteenth century;
VD17 and VD18 link often to digitized copies
- English Short Title
Catalogue (ESTC), British Library
- Scottish Books 1505-1700
(Aldis updated), National Library of Scotland
- BP16: Bibliographie des
éditions parisiennes du 16e siècle, Bibliothèque nationale de
France – Parisian editions from the sixteenth century
- Lyon15-16. Bibliographie des édtions lyonnaises 1473-1600 –
editions published in Lyon
- EDITEF: L’édition italienne dans l’espace francophone à la
première modernité, Université de Tours – books in Italian
printed in Francophone regions between 1450 and 1630; note the fine
selection of relevant links, for example for provenance research, and
the blog
- EDIT16, Censimento nazionale delle edizioni
italiane del XVI secolo – Italian editions of the sixteenth century
- Libri Antichi in Toscana (LAIT) 1501-1885
– for old books in Tuscany
- ESTeR – Editori e stampatori di Trento e Rovereto,
Biblioteca Comunale di Trento – a bibliography of books and journals
printed in these towns between 1475 and 1800; the copies in this library
have been digitized as Edizione trentine dei
secoli XV-XVIII
- Norske bøker 1519–1850, Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo
- Electroniczna Baza Bibliografii Estreichera (EBBE),
Jagiellonski University, Cracow – a bibliographical database for Early
Modern Polish editions
- Porbase: Base Nacional de Dados Bibliográficos,
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
- Iberian Books (1472-1650), University College
Dublin – an international bibliographical project
- Catálogo Colectivo de
Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español, Spain
- IBIS. Base de datos del patrimonio bibliográfico de
Patrimonio Nacional – a bibliographical database for the
Real Biblioteca and associated royal libraries
- Catàleg Col·lectiu del Patrimoni Bibliogràfic de Catalunya –
for books printed in Catalonia
- GLN 15-16 – editions printed in the 15th and
16th century in Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchâtel
- Patrimonio bibliográfico
mexicano: Catálogo colectivo de fondos antiguos, Biblioteca
Nacional de Mexico and UNAM
- Fondos bibliográficos
antiguos, ADABI, Mexico – a database for early printed books
held in 23 Mexican libraries
- Catálogo Colectivo de Impresos Latinoamericanos hasta 1851 for
Latin American editions – an international project
- Union Catalog of Early Japanese Books, National
Institute of Japanese Literature
- Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW),
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – the central bibliography for incunabula, with
links to digitized copies and useful overviews for editions of (parts of)
the Corpus Iuris Civilis, statutes and conciliar texts,
and also for the Bible
- Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC),
British Library and CERL – a more succinct but uptodate overview of
incunabula worldwide, with here, too, links to digitized copies
- BSB-INK, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich – the
BSB has the largest incunabula collection of the world, and now also
a image search interface for
the study of woodcuts; the overview of printed incunabula catalogues is
most useful
- INKA, Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen – the
incunabula meta-catalogue for South German libraries, with links to
digitized copies
- Digitale Sammlung
Inkunabeln und Blockbücher, Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek,
Cologne
- Bodleian Incunabula Catalogue (Bod-Inc
Online) Bodleian Library, Oxford- now supplemented by TEXT-Inc for incunabula in other collections
at Oxford
- Vatican Library:
Incunables – a special online catalogue for the 8,600
incunabula in this rich library; interface Italian and English
- Index Possessorum Incunabulorum, Paul Needham,
Princeton University, and CERL – data on 32,000 owners and owning
institutions mentioned in copies of incunabula editions
- Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI), CERL –
another interesting database
- The Atlas of Early Printing, University of Iowa –
interactive maps show graphically the spread of printing from 1460 onwards
- Glasgow Incunabula Project – the website of
this project is a good example with its section on various subjects and
bibliographical information
- Blockbücher aus
bayerischen Sammlungen, Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online –
Bavarian libraries have many blockbooks in their holdings; you can find
most of them also in the Digitale Sammlungen of
the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich; there is a useful overview of digitized
blockbooks worldwide
- Blockbücher,
Württembergsiche Landesbiliothek, Stuttgart – an introduction with digitized works
- Blockbücher,
Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
- Blockbooks, Bodleian Library, Oxford
- Block-books, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection,
Library of Congress – ten blockbooks
- Livrets xylographiques,
Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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