Collection of Swiss legal sources

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The Collection of Swiss Legal Sources (SSRQ), French Collection des sources du droit suisse (SDS), Italian Collana Fonti del diritto svizzero (FDS), is a collection of critical editions of historical legal documents (so-called legal sources ), which are in the area of ​​today's Switzerland from the early Middle Ages to 1798.

Edition and sources

The collection is published by the Legal Sources Foundation of the Swiss Lawyers Association . The foundation was established for this purpose in 1894 under the name Legal Sources Commission .

Since then, over a hundred volumes (more than 80,000 pages) of source material have been published in the form of source editions. The entire collection is freely available online at SSRQ.

The primary sources are manuscripts or early prints that have been transcribed and commented on in historically and regionally different forms in German, French, Italian, Rhaeto-Romanic and Latin . The critical apparatuses are German, French or Italian. The aim of the collection is to make the sources accessible to legal historians , lawyers, historians and researchers from other disciplines as well as interested laypeople. Most of the older volumes contain a complete register; Newer volumes are equipped with two registers (a place and person register and a subject register).

The collection is organized according to modern cantons (called "departments", numbered in the order in which they appear in the federal constitution).

In February 2011, the collection of Swiss legal sources covered 17 of the 26 Swiss cantons to varying degrees; in December 2014 it was 22 cantons. The edition of the collection is an ongoing project and further volumes are in preparation. The foundation is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation , various foundations, individual cantons, etc.

President

literature

  • Peter Blickle : Creating order. Old European legal culture in Switzerland. A monumental edition. In: Historical magazine . Vol. 268, 1999, pp. 121-136.
  • Lukas Gschwend : The Collection of Swiss Legal Sources, published by the Legal Sources Foundation of the Swiss Lawyers Association: A monumental work of basic research on legal history. In: Journal of Swiss Law . Vol. 126/1, 2007, pp. 435-457 ( [1] ).
  • Lukas Gschwend: Basic research on legal history: The collection of Swiss legal sources. In: Swiss History Journal . Vol. 58/1, 2008, pp. 4-19 ( [2] ).
  • Lukas Gschwend, Pascale Sutter: The collection of Swiss legal sources and their concept of legal sources . In: Legal Culture 2 - Journal for European Legal History (Issue 2): Methods of legal history and its related sciences in dealing with legal historical sources. 2013, pp. 67-78 ( [3] ).
  • Adrien Wyssbrod: La collection des sources du droit suisse à l'ère numérique, un outil formidable. In: Marco Cavina (ed.): L'insegnamento del diritto (secoli XII – XX) - L'enseignement du droit (XXIIe – XXe siècle). Bologna 2019, pp. 194-205 ( [4] ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SSRQ online .
  2. ↑ General catalog .

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