Project-related search
- Complete digitized project content
- Complete digitized project content within the State Library’s historical holdings (including digitized materials of other libraries)
- Subject search within the State Library’s legal historical holdings (including digitized materials of other libraries)
- Partikularrechte
- Ortsrechte
Comprehensive search
- Free search within the Berlin State Library’s on-line catalogue
- Key word search within the bibliographic metadata of the State Library’s digital collections
- Free search by using the ViFa Recht International Discovery Service
- Free search within the Central Directory of Digitised Printed Works
The books are being digitised in accordance with the DFG Practical Guidelines on Digitisation (Praxisregeln der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft „Digitalisierung“) with a resolution of 300 dpi and a colour depth of 24 RGB. Thereby, the content is clearly readable continuously. Through a metadata and substructural indexing they are navigable very easily.
Usually, legal works of the 19th century contain texts, which are not printed in coulours, as well as little illustrations. However, legal tables or line numberings can be considered as structure elements more often. About ninety percent of the works are in blackletter. Volume and format of the several works varies widely; the books’ page number is by an estimated 200 pages. Just a few titles are in folio format. Due to the publication period there is a partly moderate paper quality (from the 1830s onwards).
Scientific reviews or textbooks for court officers and judges as well as journals and official journals like the “Hannover’sche Polizeiblatt” or “Erholungsstunden” (journal for Prussian civil servants) allow a deep insight into the ramifications of the public administration. In combination with works on private law, digitised by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte) in Frankfurt / Main (MPIeR) and legal historic journals from 1703-1830, digitised within a cooperation project between MPIeR and Berlin State Library, this collection will be a comprehensive pool of sources for historical sciences.
Due to its broad topical spectrum this digital collection might not only be brought to the attention of legal historians. Sociologists, economical, educational and medical historians as well as interdisciplinary working humanities scholars will benefit.
