On this page you will find a collection of links to digital libraries with a special interest for legal history. Ordering them by country is a random affair, in particular when modern borders do not fit with historical frontiers. The links collections on the pages for the different law systems mention relevant digital libraries. On the page for common law you will find extensive information for the United Kingdom, here you will find a number of genreal digital libraries. The Netherlands and Belgium, too, are treated more extensively on the page for Old Dutch Law. Materials concerning legal history are of course present elsewhere, too. Currently this page contains information for around one hundred countries with a clear focus on digital libraries historical collections. Additions and corrections are not only welcome, but really necessary.

The section Other libraries is a first small effort to guide you to collections for legal history for a number of topics and countries in more general digital libraries. Websites for constitutions, treaties and international projects are dealt with in a separate section, with special attention for Asia. The information presented here focuses on freely accessible materials. Major scientific libraries offer access to subscribed websites and databases, often even accessible at home for card holders.

However incomplete these listings are, it is most practical to arrange them along the continents, in alphabetical order Africa, America, Asia, the Middle East, Australia and Europe. This arrangement shows the gaps more clearly. It should work also as an invitation to submit suggestions.

For tracking official gazettes the Foreign Official Gazette Database (Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, IL) even though ot updated since 2007 is very helpful. CRL has digitized also rare African, Iraqi and iranian gazettes. In some cases older editions have been digitized at the websites for current gazettes which can be found using portals for contemporary law such as Globalex and the World Legal Information Institute. Sometimes the overview at Government Gazettes Online will help you; the list at the English Wikipedia is also helpful. You can also try the Foreign Official Government Gazettes Database (IALS, School of Advanced Studies, London). Another important overview with links to online versions of current gazettes is the Gazette Collection of the Library of Congress. The Law Library of the Library of Congress is the largest law library of the world, with often uniquely rich holdings for many countries. A number of rare gazettes has been digitized, some foreign websites for gazttes have been archived. For Latin America you might want to look at the Red de Boletinos Oficiales Americanos. The Digital South Asia Lbrary (University of Chicago) offers the International Union LIst of South Asian Newsepapers and Gazettes. Harvard Law School Library has digitized a number of issues of official gazettes from some countries in Africa and South-East Asia. Here I aim at mentioning those gazettes for which you can find historical issues online.

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. I mention also a number of online historical bibliographies for European countries. Digitized pamphlets are presented on a special page.

Africa

Some general digital libraries:

• 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)
• African Digital Research Repositories, International African Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, London – a very rich overview of digital libraries and also some archives
• Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa (ILSSA), Frankfurt am Main – a digital library and searchable web directory; interface German, English and French
• Africa Online Digital Library, Michigan State University
• Aluka – now part of JSTOR but in Africa free accessible
• African Digital Library – only accessible within Africa after free registration
• 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

Algeria

• 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

Congo-Kinshasa

• Bulletin officiel du Congo belge (1885-1959), Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outremer, Brussels – the gazette of the former Belgian colony Congo

Egypt

• 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
• La presse francophone d’Egypte numérisée, Centre d’Études Alexandrines, Alexandria – French journals published in Egypt since 1798

Ghana

• Cases in Ghana Land Law – a selection of cases since the nineteenth century

Liberia

• Liberian Law, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY
• Maps of Liberia 1830-1870, Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress
• Acts of the Liberian Legislation 1857-1940, Patrick’s Place / Liberiapedia – a guide to laws and acts
• Indiana University Liberian Collections – among the variety of sources are the Liberian constitutions since 1820

Morocco

• Bibliothèque numérique, Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume de Maroc, Rabat
• Bibliothèque numérique, Fondation du roi Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud pour les études islamiques et les sciences humaines, Casablanca – with 470 lithographed books, and 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

Mozambique

• Biblioteca Moçambique, Magno Antunes, Braga – a small digital library on various subjects

Namibia

• Namibian Digital Archive, Polytechnic of Nambia, Utah Valley University and National Archives of Namibia – digitized archival collections, photographs, films and books

Senegal

• Bibliothèque numérique Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar – with some legal works among the ouvrages rares

Somali

• Online Somali Library – a general digital library
• The Digital Somali Library, Indiana University, Bloomington – 137 digitized books

South Africa

• 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

• Sudan Open Archive, Rift Valley Institute
• The Mahmoud Salih Collection, Digitalt, Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen – a general collection of rare books about Sudan
• University of Khartium Repository – with some 400 books
• The Sudan Archive, Durham University – a digital archive with not only archival records, but also governmental reports, maps and official gazettes

Uganda

• World Digital Library: Uganda – some sixty items with thrirty books, dealing for example with treaties and land tenure

America

General digital libraries

• 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
• Caribbean Books, Leiden University Library and KITLV – 950 digitized books, only some 200 in open access
• 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
• Ibero-American Electronic Text Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries – a selection of works
• Latin American Travelogues, Brown University – a digital library with accompanying essays and iubliographies
• 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
• 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 Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie, Frankfurt am Main – some forty Early Modern works
• The School of Salamanca, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mainz – a pbroject 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

Argentina

• 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
• Colecciones digitales, Biblioteca Nacional de Argentina
• Dossier legislativo, Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación – with presidential messages and legislation since 1854
• Biblioteca digital, Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación Argentina – with for example constitutions
• Biblioteca digital, Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos de la Nación – with sections for Patrimonio histórico and Política criminal – Archivo histórico
• 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
• Gazeta de Buenos Ayres, John Carter Brown Library – Internet Archive – this newspaper was published from 1810 to 1821 and documents the transition to independence
• 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)
• Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales, Consejo Latinamericano de Sciencias Sociales
• Biblioteca digital, Biblioteca Jorge Luis Borges, Academia Argentina de Letras

Aruba

• Biblioteca Nacional Aruba – Coleccionan Digital, Internet Archive

Bermuda

• Digital collection, Bermuda National Library, Hamilton – mainly newspapers and periodicals

Bolivia

• 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

Brazil

• Biblioteca Nacional Digital, Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil
• Hemeroteca Digital, Biblioteca Nacional Digital
• Diario de Pernambuco (1825-1924), George Smathers Libraries, University of Florida – the first Brazilian newspaper
• 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
• Biblioteca Digital, Câmara dos Deputados – with separately the Coleção de leis anuais do Brasil with legislation since 1808
• Biblioteca Digital, Biblioteca do Senado Federal
• Memória Estatística do Brasil, Ministerio da Fazenda no Rio de Janeiro – Internet Archive – some 5,100 works
• Brasilian Government Documents, CRL – 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
• Legislação histórica, Portal da Legislação, Centro do Estudos Jurídicos – eight sections with text-only versions of legislation
• 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
• Acervo Digital, Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, Universidade de São Paulo
• Projetos Especiais, Biblioteca Digital, Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, São Paulo – some 1,300 works from the sixteenth century onwards; note also the Projeto Brasil-África with some 600 works
• 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
• Obras raras, Acervo digital, Fundação Cultural do Estado de Pará

Canada

• 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
• Government publications, Canadiana – with books and journals  before 1900; interface Engoish and French
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The CIHM-Monograph Collection, University of Alberta – Internet Archive – nearly 80,000 works scanned from microfilms
• Digital Collections, University of Calgary – among them is the Alberta Law Collection with 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

Chile

• 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

Colombia

• Biblioteca Digital,, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
• Libro Antiguo, Colecciones digitales, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia – early printed works
• Biblioteca Virtual Luis Ángel Arango, Banco del República, Bogotá
• Biblioteca Digital de Bogotá – with a section Legislación y normatividad, with items from 1821 onwards
• 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
• Repositorio Institucional, Universidad de Antioquia – with the Biblioteca Virtual de Antioquia and Patrimonio histórico
• BPP Digital, Biblioteca Publica Piloto, Medellin

Costa Rica

• 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

Cuba

• Cuban law, Digital Library of the Caribbean
• Colecciones digitales, Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí, Havana
• Biblioteca Digital de Cuba – a portal with digitized materials from four institutions
• 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

Dominican Republic

• Biblioteca Digital Dominicana, República Dominicana – a general digital library
• Biblioteca Digital, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña – 400 books and 100 pamphlets

Ecuador

• Repositorio digital, Biblioteca Nacional de Ecuador, Quito – with for example historical newspapers and official gazettes
• Bibiioteca Digital Ecuatoriana, Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Ecuador (COBUEC) – a portal for digital collections at universities and the Biblioteca Nacional

El Salvador

• 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

• Guatemala Collection, John Carter Brown Library – Internet Archive – some 200 early works

Haiti

• 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 and Legal Materials, 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 Archive – the Bulletin des Lois et Actes and the Code civil d’Haiti
• 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

Honduras

• Biblioteca Virtual Letras de Honduras – a project of a number of cultural institutions

Jamaica

• 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

Martinique

• Banque Numérique des Patrimoines Martiniquais, Collectivité Territoriale de Martinique and Direction régionale des Affaires Culturelles – a portal for digitized cultural heritage with digitized civil records, archival records, images, archaeological objects and books; interface French and English

Mexico

• Mexicana: Repositorio Digital de Patrimonio Cultural de México, Secretaria de Cultura – with a section for libros, textos y documentos; interface Spanish and English
• Biblioteca Virtual de México, Secretaria de Cultura
• Biblioteca Digital Mexicana – a digital library with books, manuscripts, maps and images from ten institutions
• 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) and Biblioteca Nacional de México – digitized newspapers and periodicals
• Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers, Eastview and CRL
• Biblioteca Jurídica Virtual, UNAM
• Biblioteca Digital, UNAM – with several subcollections, among them the Fondo Antiguo
• Legislación Mexicana, UNAM – nearly 17,000 legislative acts, ordinances and much more between 1697 and 1902, collected by Manuel Dublany and José Maria Lozano, the “Dublany-Lozano”
• Diario Oficial de la Federación – the Mexican official gazette, with digitized issues since 1917
• Compendio Bandos de la Ciudad de Mexico, Periodo Colonial, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH) – a database for searching colonial ordinances concerning Mexico City
• Publicaciónes Digitales, UNAM – a portal to several digital collections
• Proyecto Independencia de México, UNAM
• 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 digital de relaciones internacionales, Acervo Histórico Diplomático, Ciudad México
• 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
• 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 México, Fundacion Carlos Slim – another digital library, with some 80 collections
• Coleccion Digital, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León – with some 8,200 old books in the Colección Libro Antiguo
• Guia de memorias de Hacienda de Mexico (1822-1910), Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, El Colegio de México – these annual guides give an unique view on public administration and the economy in Mexico
• 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 Virtual de Yucatán – a general digital library with also older works in the Fondo Reservado
• 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
• Libros y Documentos, Biblioteca Histórica José Maria Lafragua, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla – some eighty works; other digital collections seem not to function
• 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

Nicaragua

• 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

Panama

• Biblioteca Digital Panameña, Biblioteca Nacional, Panama – with a section Constituciones Panameñas

Paraguay

• Biblioteca Digital, Biblioteca Nacional de Paraguay, Asunción

Peru

• 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 and a number of modern studies and editions; interface Spanish and English

Puerto Rico

• Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña, 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
• Gazeta de Puerto-Rico, Chronicling America, Library of Congress – issues from 1836 to 1902
• 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 Puertorriqueña, UPR RP – Issuu
• Biblioteca Virtual de Puerto Rico, Javier Almeyda Loucil – a blog about digitized books and jourmals
• Colección Digital Puertorriqueña, University of Connecticut – digitized journals, books and some archival collections

Suriname

• 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

The platform Delpher of the Dutch Royal Library contains more books about Suriname, newspapers published in Suriname and also official bulletins.

Trinidad and Tobago

• 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

United States of America

• Digital Public Library of America – a portal to a number of American digital libraries
• Government, Law & Politics, Library of Congress, Washington, DC – a section among the rich digital collections, only here already some 120 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 are also other text-only versions of these famous pamphlets discussing the role of the constitution, the organization of the state and much more at Congress.gov and at The Avalon Project
• The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Centre for the Study of the American Constitution, University of Wisconsin-Madison – a digital version with currently 26 of the projected 31 volumes with sources around this pivotal document
• The Quill Project, Pembroke College, Oxford – a portal with many resources around the US constitution and the Bill of Rights, a number of them earlier to be found conveniently at ConSource
• Legislative Source Book, Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, DC – primarily for current legislation, but whit due attention to historical laws
• 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
• 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, New Haven. CT – 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 Treaties, 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 – some 2,300 documents
• 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
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities

Uruguay

• Colecciones digitales, Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay – with for example the section Primeros impresos
• Autores.uy – a digital library for literature from uruguay, but you will find here also non-fiction works, for example in the Biblioteca del Poder Legislativo with some eighty works
• Libros, Anaforas: Colecciones, Universidad de la República Uruguay – some 140 works, some of them concerning legislation and government

Venezuela

• 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
• Biblioteca Digital César Rengifo, Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela

Asia

For some countries the Asian Legal Information Institute provides also historical information. Some digital libraries are concerned with several countries or a large region, in particular East Asia and South Asia:

• Digital collections, CrossAsia, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg – eleven digitized collections at this portal for Asian studies
• Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago and CRL – 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 CRL – 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
• Hermann Gundert Portal, Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen – a digital collection with texts mainly from India in Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil , Kannada and other languages; interface German and English
• 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
• Tibetan Texts, Kern Institute and Leiden University Library – some 2,000 block prints and manuscripts, nearly 1,800 in open access
• 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
• Golden Collection of Eurasia, Library Assembly of Eurasia and Russian National Library – a project with cultural highlights from countries around and within the former Soviet Union

Middle East

• 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
• Bibliothèque numérique kurde, Institut kurde de Paris – interface Kurdian, French and English
• Oman Digital Library, Middle East Institute, Washington, DC- a general digital library concerning the Middle East
• Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) – a project of CLIR, Stanford Libraries and the Qatar National Library for a platform with digital collections and exhibits
• 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
• Bibliothèques d’Orient, Patrimoines partagées – a project of the BnF, Paris and ten other institutions for a digital library for the Near and Middle East; interface French, English and Arabic
• Digital Library, Arabic Union Catalog and King Abdulaziz Public Library, Ryaad – with various collections; interface Arabic, English and French
• Newspapers and periodicals, National Library of Israel – with Jewish, Arabic and Palestine publications, in particular for the first half of the twentieth century; interface Hebrew, Aranic and English
• Open Arabic Periodical Editions, Till Grallert – GitHub – a project for searchable and complete versions of important Arabic journals; see also A choronology of Arabic periodicals (1800-1929) at Jara’id

Afghanistan

• 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,, University of Nebraska, Lincoln – books in Dari, Pashto and English, and some digitized newspapers, too
• 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
• Tailban Sources Repository, Universitetet i Oslo – access after registration

Armenia

• Hakob Meghapart Project, National Library of Armenia, Yerevan – with early digitized books from and about Armenia
• Armenian Rare Books 1512-2012 – the first Armenian books were printed in Venice in 1512
• Digital Library of Classical Armenian Literature

Cambodja

• Bibliotheca Khmerica, Bibliothèque nationale de Cambodge, Phnom Penh
• Khmer Language Books, National Library of Cambodia and Digital Library for International Research (DLIR) – 171 items published between 1950 and 1973

China

• 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
• The China-US Million Book Digital Library Project, Universal Library – Internet Archive – 78,000 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
• Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers, Eastview and CRL
• 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, New York City – 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
• Serica, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford – a selection of digitized Early Modern Chinese books
• Shanben Collection, Institute of Oriental Culture, Tokyo University

• 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

Harvard University Library offers in its research guide for Chinese studies an overview of its rich digitized collections with Chinese books and other materials, some 9,600 items, also accessible through Harvard Digital Collections.

East Timor

• Boletim Oficial de Timor (1838-1975), Arquivo Historicio Ultramarino, Lisbon
• AraDA East Timor Special Collection, Charles Darwin University – nearly 200 books

Georgia

• Digital Library, National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Tbilisi – interface Georgian and English
• DSpace, National Parliamentary Library of Georgia – interface Georgian and English
• Mamardashvili Digital Library – a general digital library; interface Georgian and English
• Georgian Digital Text Collective, University of Washington

Hong Kong

• 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
• 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

India

• 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; full access for subscribers, but freely searchable
• 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; there isa second link
• Panjab Digital Library, Chandigarh – aiming for example at preserving the Sikhs’ culture and heritage; registration necessary
• 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
• Ideas of India – an international project for a portal with an index for the contents of some 330 periodicals published in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Indonesia

• 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

Iran

• 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
• Persian Language Rare Materials, Library of Congress – 315 lithographs and early printed books

Israel

• Digital Library, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
• Digital Collections, 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
• Israeli Legal History Bibliography, Tel Aviv University – note also the overview of sources online

Japan

• Digital collections, National Diet Library, Tokyo – with various collections, for example for digitized version of the Kanpō, the official gazette since 1883 up to the 1950s
• Birth of the Constitution of Japan, National Diet Library – a website in Japanese and English on the constitution of 1946
• Rare Books and Old Materials, National Diet Library
• Digital Library for the Meiji Era, National Diet Library
• Laws and regulation from the early Meiji Period (1867-1886), National Diet Library
• Minutes of the Imperial Diet, 1890-1947, National Diet Library
• Japanese Institutional Repositories Online, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo – a portal to several Japanese digital repositories
• Rare Materials Digital Archive, Kyoto University – nicely divided into sections, including one with old legal books; interface Japanese and English
• Rare Books, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Nichibun University, Kyoto – digitized books on Japan printed before 1850
• Rare Materials Collection, Academic Repository, Doshisha University, Kyoto – with seven digitial collections; interface Japanese and English
• Rare Books, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto – 66 digitized books, mainly European travel accounts
• Ryukoku University Library Digital Archive, Kyoto – a few thousand digitized printed works
• 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 legal dissertations in Latin, University Repository, Kanagawa University, Yokohama – 84 digitized early modern dissertations mainly from the German Holy Empire
• Comte de Mirabeau Collection, YNU-Repository, State University, Yokohama – 185 items with works written by and about Mirabeau; search interface Japanese
• 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; a second collection is the Kirishitan Bunko
• Kotenseki Sogo database of Japanese and Chinese Classics, Waseda University Library, Tokyo – 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
• Digital Collections, Keio University Libraries, Tokyo – nearly twenty collections, also for images and virtual exhibitions
• Rare materials, Kyushu University Library, Fukuoka – a digital library with some legal 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

Kuwait

• Digital Memory of Kuwait, National Library of Kuwait – interface Arabic and English

Laos

• Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts, National Library of Laos, Universität Passau and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz – with also manuscripts concerning law

Lebanon

• Digital Collections, American University of Beirut

Macau

• 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

Malaysia

• Sejarah Malajuh Library, Sabrizain – a general digital library for Malaysia and other countries in East Asia

Mongolia

• Selected Mongolian Legal Documents, 1917-1940, American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulanbataar
• Tod Nonim Gerel Collection, DLIR – 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

• 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

• 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

Pakistan

• Punjab Digital Library – a general digital library with some legal works

Philippines

• 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

• Qatar Digital Library, Qatar National Library – a general digital library about Arab history and culture

Russia

• The history of Russian civil law – a portal to the legal history of Russia; in Russian
• National Electronic Library – a portal with numerous digital collections, for example on criminal punishment in history; interface Russian
• Digital Library, Russian State Library, Moscow
• Elektronnaia Biblioteka GPIB, National Library of Russia, Saint Petersburg
• Bibliophika, State Public Historical Library – a relatively small digital library with books, maps and portraits, with a small section for legal works
• Digital Library, National Library of Russia – interface in five languages
• Digital collections, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, Saint Petersburg – the section Legal system in Russia covers also Russian legal history; interface Russian and English
• 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
• Electronekrasovka, Nekrasov Library, Moscow – a general digital library; interface Russian and English
• Классика Российского Права [Classics of Russian Law] – a digital library with works of lawyers and a digitized 16-volume set of the Russian Code of Civil Law in the nineteenth century
• The  Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire, National Library of Russia – covering the period 1649 to 1913; interface Russian
• Legal works of the Russian S.F.S.R., Harvard Law School Library

Singapore

• 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

South Korea

• Digital Library, National Library of South Korea, Seoul – with also for example 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

Sri Lanka

• National Digital Library, National Library of Sri Lanka, Colombo – with in particular issues of the Ceylon Government Gazette (1889-1902)

Syria

• eBethArke: The Syriac Digital Library, Rutgers University Libraries – see also the Beth Mardutho collections in the Internet Archive and in the Theological Commons, Princeton Theological Seminary
• Syriac Studies Reference Library, Brigham Young University – a small but valuable collection (104 items)
• Digital Syriac Corpus – a website created by an international consortium for texts in classic Syriac

Thailand

• Digital Library, National 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

Turkey

• 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 Turkish 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
• Periodicals of the Hakki Tarik Us Collection, Beyazit University, Istanbul, and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies – digitized works from the Ottoman period
• Gazeteden Tarihe Bakış Projesi, İstanbul Üniversitesi Kütüphane ve Dokümantasyon Daire Başkanlığı – a project for digitizing Turkish newspapers published between 1922 and 1942; interface Turkish
• Monographs, SALT Research, Istanbul – some 1,000 works from the Ottoman period, and also some later works; there is also a section with digitized French periodicals; interface Turkish and English

Vietnam

• Fonds Indochine, National Library of Vietnam, Hanoi – French publications from the seventeenth century onwards; interface 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

Australia

• National Library of Australia, Digital Collections
• Trove, National Library of Australia – a portal to digitized collections from many institutions, with for example a section for newspapers and gazettes
• Historic Gazettes, Federal Register of Legislation, Australian Government – official gazettes from 1901 to 2012
• 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
• Founding Documents: Documenting a Democracy, National Archives of Australia – 110 documents with commentaries
• Australian Legal Information Institute – with many databases on present and historical law, 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 since 1903
• Police Gazette of Western Australia (1876-1900), State Library of Western Australia, Perth – an important resource for research into police actions, crime and suspects

New Zealand

• 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
• New Zealand Legal Information Institute –  with some useful legal history resources
• 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

Oceania

• 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
• Ana’ite, La bibliothèque numérique scientifique polynésienne, Université de la Polynésie française, Faa’a, Tahiti – interface French, English and Tahitian
• Médiathèque historique de la Polynésie – a portal with digitized resources from collections all over the world

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, English, Czech and Slovakian
• 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 – digitized newspapers, many of them in French, a number of them published in the Dutch Republic
• Iurisprudentia, Universität Zürich – a digital library with works by nineteenth-century lawyers from Austria, Germany and Switzerland, with not only books, but also digitized letters and manuscripts; legislation and legal courts will get a place here, too
• Fenno-Ugrica, Kansalliskirjasto, Helsinki – 1500 monographs, 110 newspapers and many hundred journals in Finno-Ugrian languages, and also six special collections, for example for Estonian and Yiddish; nterface Finnish, Russian and English
• Central and Eastern European Library (CEEOL), Frankfurt am Main – a licensed portal with free search functionality and also books in open access; individual accounts can be opened

Albania

• e-Albanica, Biblioteka Kombëtare e Shqipërisë [National Library of Albania], Tirana

Austria

• ÖNB Digital, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna – the general portal for searching digital objects, with useful filters in the search function for particula formats; at Digitaler Lesesaal the other digital collections are listed
• ALEX, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek – 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 – digitized publications 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

For Austria the portal RepÖstRG, Repertorium digitaler Quellen zur österreichischen Rechtsgeschichte in der Frühen Neuzeit, created by Heino Speer (Klagenfurt), offers you quick access to digitized legal sources and also scholarly literature.

Belarus

• Books of Belarus, 14-18th centuries, National Library of Belarus, Minsk – interface Belarussian, Russian and English
• Monuments of Belarussian legal history, Pravo – a section of this portal for current law presents a selection of historical resources; interface Belarussian
• Digital Library, Yakub Kolas Central Science Library, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk – a project with several collections for Early Modern printed books, and also manuscripts; interface Belarussian, Russian, Polish and English

Belgium

• 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
• Gedigitaliseerde oude drukken, Erfgoedbibliotheek, Universiteit Antwerpen – nearly 1,900 works
• 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
• Rechtsreeks / LigneDroit, Bibliotheken KU Leuven – a collection with digitized legal books, in particular some classic works, and journals on law from the twentieth century, partially in open access
• 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)

Bosnia

• Digitalne kolekcije, Nacionalna i univerzitetska Bosne i Hercegovine, Sarajevo
• Digital library, Gazi Husrey Bekova Biblioteka, Sarajevo – login as guest (Prijava kao gost)

Bulgaria

• Digital Library, St. Cyril and St. Methodius National Library, Sofia
• Digital collections, Central Library, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Croatia

• 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

Cyprus

• Ψηφιακή Πλατφόρμα, Κυπριακής Βιβλιοθήκης [Digital Platform, Cyprus Library], Nicosia

Czech Republic

• 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

Denmark

• E-Bøger, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen – some five hundred digitized old books with legal works among them; here an overview of the digitale samlinger
• 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
• 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

Estonia

• Digital Library, National Library of Estland – interface Estonian, English and Russian
• DIGAR Eesti artiklid, National Library of Estland – digitized newspapers, journals and serials; interface Estonian, English and Russian
• 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

Finland

• 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

France

• 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
• Bibliographie d’Histoire du Droit, Université Lorraine (Nancy-Metz), Université Paris-II and Université Bordeaux – an online database where you can search using a thesaurus; interface French and English
• 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
• Bibliothèque numérique de l’ENAP, École nationale d’administration pénitentiaire, Agen – 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
• 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
• 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, Bibliothèque numérique de Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon – in the collection Livres anciens you will find some 700 juridical books; the section Presse lyonnaise de 1790 à 1944 contains digitized newspapers
• 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 de Lorraine, Nancy and Metz – a database version of this invaluable collection of Frnech customary law
• 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
• Patrimoine juridique, Babord-Num, Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux 4 – mainly coutumes for the Guyenne region and the city of Bordeaux
• Séléné, bibliothèque numérique de Bordeaux – with a section Aquitaine: Droit coutumier
• Droit dauphinois, Bibliothèque Droit-Lettres, Université Grenoble -Alpes- 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
• Factums, Gallica: Essentiels du droit – with access to digitized copies at the BnF and other French libraries
• Droit et sciences politiques, Odyssée, Bibliothèque patrimoniale, Aix et Marseille Université – a great variety of sources, in particular a number of digitized factums, divided in two collections, before 1789 and after 1789
• 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

Germany

• Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek – nearly 2,000 institutions work together in this new national digital library (beta-version)
• 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 Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie
• Deutsches Territorialrecht von 1801 bis 1900, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – a project with eventually some 13,000 books
• Digitale Bibliothek, Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie, Frankfurt am Main – with for example 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, and also materials concerning Roman law
• Rechtsquellen der frühen Neuzeit, Universitätsbibliothek 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
• 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
• Dokumentations- und Informationssuystem für Parlamentsmaterialien (DIP), Deutscher Bundestag – with printed materials since 1947
• Drucksachen und Plenarprotokolle des Bundestages, Deutscher Bundestag – printed materials and records of plenary sessions since 1949 (PDF’s)
• Digitale Reichsstatistik, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Hamburg and Kiel – a searchable version of the original volumes (1873-1883), with also crime statistics
• Deutsche Statistische Jahrbücher, Universität Mannheim – statistical almanacs in three series, 1880-1942 and 1952-1990, and also for the DDR (1955-1990)
• Amtspresse Preussens, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz – a search filter at the Zefys newspaper portal for 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 17,000 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 – at Bielefeld is an important collection of digitized journals from the Enlightenment
• 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
• Thüringen Legislativ und Executiv, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Jena – digitized sources concerning legislation, government and administration from the sixteenth to the twentieth century
• 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)

Greece

• 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)

Hungary

• 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
• Arcanum Digitheca – a licensed digital library with books, journals and newspapers with a section for jurisprudence; individual short period subscriptions are offered; interface Hungarian, Romanian and English

Iceland

• 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 (1864-1874) 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)

Ireland and Northern Ireland

• Catalogue, National Library of Ireland, Dublin – tick the field Show digitised items only
• Irish Penal Laws, M. Patricia Schaffer, University of Minnesota – legislation concerning Ireland between 1558 and 1759
• Irish Statute Book (eISB) – legislative 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
• Acts of the Oireachtas / Achtanna an Oireachtas – a bilingual website with acts since 1922
• Dublin Gazette, Oireachtas Library – issues of the official gazette (1705-1922) of the Irish Executive have been digitized
• Iris Oifigiúil – since 1922 the official Irish gazette, the successor to the Dublin Gazette
• Northern Ireland Official Publications Archive (NIOPA), Queen’s University Belfast
• 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 (EPPI)
• Conflict Archive on the Internet, University of Ulster – the conflict in Northern Ireland since 1968
• Corpus of Electronic Texts: Historical and Legal, University College, Cork
• Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive, University College, Dublin
• Divided Society: Northern Ireland 1990-1998, Linen Hall Library, Belfast – a digital collection with 35,000 items (books journals, posters, audiovisual materials) covering a decade of the Irish conflict; access after registration

Italy

• Biblioteca digitale, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma
• Collezioni digitalizzate, 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
• Braidense in Digitale, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milan
• 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
• Sapienza Digital Library, Sapienza Università di Roma – a digital library with many sections, for example Diritto Romano e Diritti d’Oriente Meditterraneo and Storia del Dritto Italiano containing both also Early Modern editions
• 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
• Classici del diritto comune (secoli XII-XVIII), Sezione di Storia del diritto medievale e moderno, Università degli Studi di Milano and BEIC
• Gride e Gridari Seicenteschi del Ducato di Milano (1600-1700), Lombardia Beni Culturali / Biblioteca Digitale Lombarda – 47 digitized ordinances
• 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)
• 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
• Fonti online, Società Pistoiese di Storia Patria – digitized editions of medieval charters for several ecclesiastical institutions and city statutes from Pistoia
• 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
• Biblioteca Digitale Estense, Gallerie Estensi, Modena – with manuscripts, Eraly Modern printed editions and the Archivio Muratoriano for the historian Muratori
• 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 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 legal incunabula, and search possibilities in other digital libraries; note the digitized editions of the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medievo
• 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, for example in Somalia

Latvia

• Digital Library, National Library of Latvia – here also for example old maps and periodicals; interface Latvian and English

Liechtenstein

• eLiechtensteinensia, Liechtensteinische Landesbibliothek, Vaduz – with a section Recht

Lithuania

• 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 – books, maps and also the archival collection Grand Duchy of Lithuania court books (1540-1845)
• LMAVB elektroninis archyvas, Lithuanian Academy of sciences – an institutional repository with in the section Knigos / Books Early Modern printed books, browsable per century

Luxemburg

• Luxemburgensia online, Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg

Macedonia

• Digital Library, National and University Library St. Clement of Ohrid, Skopje

Malta

• DigiVault, National Library of Malta – the general digital library of Malta

Moldavia

• Moldovica: Biblioteca Nacioanala Digitala, Biblioteca Nacionala a Republicii Moldova, Chisinau

Montenegro

• Digitalna biblioteka Crne Gore, Nacionalja Biblioteka Crne Gore Durde Crnojevic, Cetinje – with also some digitized archival records; interface Montenegrian and English

Netherlands

• 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, with their supplements (bijblad) and forerunners, including also gazettes for the Dutch Indies and Suriname
• Staten-Generaal digitaal, Royal Library, The Hague – parliamentary documents, 1814-1995; alas the accompanying information has been removed at the transfer to a general Dutch portal for official governmental information in 2019
• Beeldbank, Allard Pierson Museum / 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, Rozet, Bibliotheek Arnhem – in its digital library this public library has digitized also a number of legal works
• Digitale collecties, Athenaeumbibliotheek, Deventer – a wide variety of works in this historical library
• Digital Collections, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen – here in particular 127 Papyri Groninganae
• Digitale Collectie, Tresoar, Leeuwarden – with for example some manuscripts concerning Old Frisian law and some court files of famous trials; a;as this link is out of service, at Collecties Tresoar currently only a few books and many thousand images are available
• 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

Norway

• Det digitale Nasjonalbiblioteket, Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo
• Dokumentasjonsprosjektet, Universitetet i Oslo – a portal to several text collections and research tools such as the Diplomatarium Norvegicum and the Regesta Norvegica
• 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

Poland

• 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 amphlets – 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
• Księgozbiór Wirtualny Federacji „Fides” [Digital Library FIDES] – a digital library with some 1,700 books from ecclesiastical collections in Poland; interface Polish and English

Portugal

• 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
• 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)

Rumania

• 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
• Biblioteca Digitală a Publicațiilor Culturale – a digital library concerning cultural heritage
• Biblioteca digitale BCU Cluj – een repository with also carti vechi si carti rare (old and rare books); interface in four languages

Serbia

• 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

Slovakia

• 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

Slovenia

• Digital Library of Slovenia – the digital library of the National and University Library; interface Slovenian and English
• 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

Spain

• 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 Miguel Cervantes – a rich portal with a number of digital libraries and much more, including for example a Hemeroteca for journals and a section for Latin America
• 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 – the modern gazette since 1960, with also digitized versions of the Gazeta (1661-1959)
• Biblioteca Juridica, Boletín Oficial del Estado – with also attention to Spanish legal history
• Constituciones Españolas, Ministerio de la Presidencia, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid
• Biblioteca de Historia Constitucional Martinez Marina, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales – with digitized works from 1798 onwards
• La Constitución española de 1812, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes; 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, Ilustre 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 medieval 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, Roderic, 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

Sweden

• 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

Switzerland

• 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 – 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 French
• e-newspaperarchive.ch – a portal for digitized Swiss newspapers; interface in four languages
• 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
• Patrinum, Réseau vaudois des bibliothèques – the digital library for cultural heritage of a number of libraries in the region around Lausanne; interface in four languages

Ukraine

• Ukrainica, National Library of Ukraine, Kiev – with a multilingual interface
• 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
• eScriptorium, Kharkov University
• Digital Library, Kyla-Mohyla Academie
• Libraria: Ukrainian Pweriodical Archive Online – journals and newspapers; interface Ukrainian and English

 United Kingdom

• 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)
• British Parliamentary Publications, University of Southampton – Internet Archive – some 14,000 digitized publications
• British Non-Parliamentary Publications (BOPCRIS), University of Southampton – a complementary collection with some 1,900 items from the twentieth century
• Digital collections, British Library, London
• Cambridge Digital Library, University of Cambridge – with for example books from Montaigne’s library
• Digital Bodleian, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
• 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 Oxford Text Archive
• Digital Library, University of Leeds
• Image collections, University of Manchester Library
• Manchester Digital 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 – with for example The Women’s Library
• 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
• British Documents on the End of Empire (BDEEP), Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London – digitized versions of the volumes in this series, including the guides for sources on colonial history held at the National Archives

Vatican City

• DigiVatLib, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana – online catalogues and digital collections of an incomparable library

Other digital libraries and link collections

A number of digital libraries is concerned with constitutions in several European countries or even worldwide:

• 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
• Constitution Finder, University of Richmond School of Law – formerly 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
• Database of the Constitutions of Sub-Saharan Africa (DCSSA), Universität Konstanz – with also drafts and proposals

For treaties one can point to a number of good resources:

• 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 – Archive-IT – mostly after 1945, but with some older treaties, with links to other projects; archived in 2018
• 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
• Peace Agreements Digital Collection, Jeannette Rankin Library Program, United States Peace Institute, Washington, DC – a number of peace agreements since 1989

You can find a number of treaties – often translated into English – in Yale’s Avalon Project.

Some digital libraries are the fruit of international cooperation or cover several countries:

• 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 digital portal about shared heritage, with already sections for the Near East, China,, Viet, Brazil and Poland; interface French, English and Spanish
• United Nations Digital Library – a digital library with documents, speeches and publications; interface with six languages
• UNESCO Digital Library – interface in six languages
• UNESDOC: Unesco Digital Library – interface in six languages
• League of Nations, Digital Gallery, National Library of Scotland
• 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

Here a number of other useful digital libraries:

• 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
• Newspaper digitization projects, Internationcl Coalition on Newspapers and CRL – a serahcable database and a list of projects
• ZEFYS: Historische Zeitungen, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – with digitized German newspapers, three DDR newspapers, and a database for searching old newspapers worldwide
• Eastview Global Press Archive: Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers, CRL – newspapers issued between 1877 and 1972
• The Atlas – Mapping the Histories and Metadata of Digitised Newspaper Collections around the World
• 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 – a platform 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 (EAP), British Library – this library supports worldwide projects for describing, conserving and digitizing rare and fragile archives and library collections, be they manuscripts, printed books, journals or newspapers
• 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
• Jesuitica, Boston College Library – Internet Archive – some 1,250 works by and about Jesuits

A number of existing collection of links will guide you to many more digital libraries:

• 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
• 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)

Bibliographies for legal history

Bibliographies for legal history come in various forms. Most often they refer to scolarly literature, but in some cases there are bibliographies tracing publications containing legislation and other primary sources. For older materials both genres can appear in a mixed form. Below I will mention a few examples of both types. When useful I mentioned them already for a particular country. This section is clearly under construction

Scholarly literature

• Introduction bibliographique à l’histoire du droit et à l’ethnologie juridique, J. Gilissen (ed.) (9 vol., Brussels 1963-1988) – an attempt at a world bibliography for legal history, with contributions by many scholars
  
• Bibliography of the History of International Law, Randall Lesaffer, (ed.), i-HILT, Tilburg University – a bibliography of current scholarly publications
• Legal history: A selected bibliography, Liberty Fund – a bibliography compiled by Charles Reid in 1998; note the links to other bibliographies
• The Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• Répertoire bibliographique sur l’histoire du droit et de la justice, Digithemis – a database for the legal history of Belgium
• Bibliography on British and Irish legal history, Jacqueline Woollam, Aberystwyth University – publications betwen 1977 and 2006
• Article and Book Bibliography, Christopher Clover, Boston College – this bibliography focus on the English year books as a support David Seipp’s online version
• Bibliographie d’Histoire du Droit, Université Lorraine (Nancy-Metz), Université Paris-II and Université Bordeaux – an online database where you can search literature on French legal history using a thesaurus; interface French and English
• Bibliographie d’histoire de la Justice française (1789-2011), Jean-Claude Farcy, Criminocorpus – a database for publications concerning criminal law and justice
• Israeli Legal History Bibliography, Tel Aviv University
• Bibliografia Historia del Derecho, Universidad Santiago de Compostela – six lists, not updated since around 2000, but certainly still useful
• Bibliography, Women’s Legal History Project, Stanford University

Sources

• Beale, J.H., Bibliography of early English law books (Cambridge, MA.,1926; reprint 1966) – supplement by R.B. Anderson (Cambridge, MA, 1943; reprint 1966).
• Haiti Legal Bibliography, Library of Congress – a bibliography of sources for Haitian law; many items have been digitized by the Library of Congress
• Bibliography of Early American Law, Morris L. Cohen (ed.) (6 vol., Buffalo, NY, 1998; supplement 2003)

Early printed works

For old legal books it is never too late to check the holdings of the Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie in Frankfurt am Main and this institute’s catalogues of Early Modern editions created by Douglas Osler. You can consult online PDF’s of his Catalogue of books printed before 1801 in the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze (2 vol., Florence 2005-2014; vol. 1, From the beginning of printing to 1600, vol. 2, 1600-1700). National bibliographies, bibliographies of legal books – e.g. the Bibliography of Early American Law by Morris L. Cohen (6 vol., Buffalo, NY, 1998; supplement 2003) – and special bibliographies for old editions can be most helpful, some of them are available online:

• 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 1650
• Short Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN) – a bibliographical database for Early Modern printed works; the introduction and guides are not to be missed; interface Dutch and English
• Apparaat Kalma (Dick Eisma), Tresoar, Leeuwarden – a catalogue of Frisian imprints until 1800, alas already for a while not up and running
• Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV), Flemish Heritage Libraries – for Flanders, with also documentation on the methods used
• KPS – Knihopis Database, National Library of the Czech Republic – a bibliography for printed works in Czech and Slovakian between 1501 and 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 both 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 éditions 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
• Régi Magyar Könyvtár (RMK) [Old Hungarian Library] – a digital version of the bibliography by Károly Szabó for the period 1473-1771, with digital versions of 600 works; interface Hungarian and English – see also the version at Madarska Nacionalna Bibliografija with introductions in multiple languages and other retrospective bibliographies
• 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
• Äldre svensktrycka: Svensk bibliografi 1600-1829 och Svenskt offentligt tryck t.o.m. 1833, Libris, Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm – a retrospective bibliography for Swedish books between 1600 and 1828, and for official publications up to 1833; interface Swedish and English
• GLN 15-16 – editions printed in the 15th and 16th century in Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchâtel
• Biblos 18 – Bibliographie des éditions lausannoises du 16e au 18e siècle – Early Modern editions from Lausanne

Outside Europe you can benefit for these online bibliographical resources:

• 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  – an international project for an union catalog of early Latin American editions
• Union Catalog of Early Japanese Books, National Institute of Japanese Literature
• South Asian Union Catalogue, University of Chicago – an union catalogue functioning as a historical bibliography of works printed since 1556

Some other online resources in open access can be helpful, too. The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) offers a number of online bibliographic databases, including the Heritage of the Printed Book (HPB) database for searching copies of Early Modern editions in European libraries and the bilingual portal Bibliopolis. Geschiedenis van het gedrukte boek in Nederland [Bibliopolis. History of the printed book in the Netherlands] offers much information on its subject. A new guide to resources is offered by Klaus Gantert, Handschriften, Inkunabeln, Alte Drucke – Informationsressourcen zu historischen Bibliotheksbeständen (Berlin-Boston 2019). The section Web Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger of the RBMS is very practical for research. The guide to historical book collections by Bernhard Fabian, Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände in Deutschland, Österreich und Europa (Hildesheim 2003) is also accessible online.

For incunabula, books printed before 1501, the following websites provide ample information and help:

• 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 (including customary law), the Decretales Gregorii IX 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: Incunabula – 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

Blockbooks, books printed in the fifteenth century without moving types, have been in particular digitized in the following collections:

• 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, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, 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

European historical bibliographies online

With the end in January 2021 to a useful portal presenting links to online historical bibliographies for twelve European countries, it seemed useful to create a succinctly commented list, currently for seventeen countries.

Eastern Europe

– Bibliotheks- und Bibliographie-Portal, Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung, Marburg – https://hds.hebis.de/herder/index.php – publications since 1994
– The European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) – https://ebsees.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ – functioning between 1991 and 2007, no longer updated; interface English

Austria

– Österreichische Historische Bibliographie (ÖHB), Universität Klagenfurt – http://oehb.aau.at/ – from 1945 onwards

Belgium

– Bibliografie van de Geschiedenis van België / Bibliographie de l’Histoire de Belgique (BGB-BHB) – http://www.rbph-btfg.be/nl_biblio.html – covers 1952-2008; interface Dutch, French and English
– BGB-BHB, Archives de l’État en Belgique – https://biblio.arch.be/webopac/Vubis.csp?Profile=BHBBGB&OpacLanguage=dut –  publications since 2009; interface Dutch, French, German and English

Czech Republic

– Bibliografie dějin Českých zemí (BDCZ), Czech Academy of Sciences – https://biblio.hiu.cas.cz/ – interface Czech, English and German – with also digitized bibliographical yearbooks

Denmark

– Dansk Historisk Bibliografi, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen – https://aleph.kb.dk/F/?func=file&file_name=welcome&local_base=dhb01

France

– Bibliographie annuelle de l’Histoire de France (BHF), CNRS and Bibliothèque nationale de France – https://biblio-bhf.fr/ – search interface in English

Germany

– Jahresberichte für Deutsche Geschichte (JBG), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften – http://jdgdb.bbaw.de/cgi-bin/jdg/cgi-bin/jdg – publications 1949-2015; interface German and English
– Jahresberichte für Deutsche Geschichte (JDG), BBAW, Berlin – vol. 1-14 (1925-1938) – http://pom.bbaw.de/JDG/
– Historische Bibliographie Online, Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag and Arbeitsgemeinschaft historischer Forschungseinrichtungen (AHF) – https://historische-bibliographie.degruyter.com/ – publications since 1990, no longer updated since 2015
– Deutsche Historische Bibliographie (DHB), Historicum – https://www.historicum.net/dhb/ – with links to other (regional) bibliographies, and other bibliographic resources – simple search in the top menu bar leads to the beta version of an interface in German and English
– Virtuelle Deutsche Landesbibliographie (VDL), Bibliothek, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology – http://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/vdl/ – includes also articles in journals
– Bibliographischer Informationsdienst, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich – https://www.ifz-muenchen.de/bibliothek/literatursuche/bibliografischer-informationsdienst – for 20th century history, access after registration, with a PDF-archive

Hungary

– Humanities Bibliographical Database (Humanus) – http://www.oszk.hu/humanus/index.html – with a section for history; interface Hungarian, English and German
– EHM: Elektronikus Periodika Archivum (EPA) – Humanus – Matarka (for Hungarian journals since 1800) – http://ehm.ek.szte.hu/ehm?p=0 – a portal with access to Humanus and three other resources, in particular for journals

Iceland

– Íslandssaga í greinum [Icelandic history in articles], Gunnar Karlsson and Gudmundur Jónson, National University Reykjavik – https://soguslodir.hi.is/ritaskra/ – a database with 13,500 articles, updated until 2005, for some journals until 2015

Ireland

– Irish History Online, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin – https://www.ria.ie/irish-history-online – with links to external resources for Irish history

Italy

– Bibliografia Storica Nazionale (dal 2000) (BSN), Giunta Centrale per gli Studi Storici – https://www.gcss.it/easyweb/w7044/index.php?scelta=campi&&biblio=GSS&lang= – publications since 2000; interface Italian, English, German, French and Spanish
– BSN Catalogo Retrospettivo – https://www.gcss.it/easyweb/w7044/index.php?scelta=campi&&biblio=E7043&lang= – interface Italian, English, German, French and Spanish

Lithuania

– Lietuvos Istorijos Bibliografia – https://aleph.library.lt/F?func=option-update-lng&P_CON_LNG=LIT – interface Lithuanian and English

Netherlands

– Digitale Bibliografie Nederlandse Geschiedenis (DBNG), Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague and Huygens Institute, Amsterdam – https://www.dbng.nl – interface Dutch and English – no updates after 2016, end of service announced for June 30, 2021
– Historie in Titels (HinT) – http://picarta.nl/DB=3.30/LNG=NE/ – licensed resource, not anymore updated since 2005, originally created at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) – interface Dutch, English and German

Norway

– Historisk bibliografi (Norhist), Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo – https://www.nb.no/baser/norhist/ – for the period 1980-1997

Poland

– Bibliografia historii polskiej, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – https://www.bibliografia.ipn.gov.pl/ – access seems to be currently unsafe or disabled; https://bibliografia.ipn.gov.pl/ appears with a notice “offline”

Spain

– Indice Histórico Español (IHE), Revistes Cientifiques de la Universitat de Barcelona – https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/IHE/index – a bibliographical journal
– Modernitas: Bibliografia de Historia Moderna, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC) – http://www.moderna1.ih.csic.es/modernitas/principal.htm
– Indices, CSIC – https://indices.csic.es/ – a general scientific bibliography with attention to the humanities; interface Spanish and English

Sweden

– Svensk Historisk Bibliografi – digital 1771-2010 (SHBd), Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm – https://shb.kb.se/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=shb – also available as an app

Switzerland

– Bibliographie der Schweizergeschichte (BSG), Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Bern – https://www.nb.admin.ch/snl/de/home/recherche/bibliografien/bsg.html – interface German, French, Italian and English

United Kingdom

– Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) – https://www.history.ac.uk/publications/bibliography-british-and-irish-history – licensed resource hosted by Brepols