Apart from political histories there are useful collections of laws
and other official documents of importance, and also a large number of
valuable works on the laws and constitutions of the Germans and on
German institutions generally. Among the collections are M. Goldast,
_Collectio constitutionum imperialium_ (1613; new and enlarged
edition, 1673); the _Capitulationes imperatorum et regum
Romana-Germanorum_ (Strassburg, 1851) of Johann Limnäus, and the
_Corpus juris Germanici antiqui_ (Berlin, 1824) of F. Walter.
Collections dealing with more recent history are J. C. Glaser's
_Archiv des norddeutschen Bundes. Sammlung aller Gesetze, Verträge und
Aktenstücke, die Verhältnisse des norddeutschen Bundes betreffend_
(Berlin, 1867); W. Jungermann's _Archiv des deutschen Reiches_
(Berlin, 1873, fol.), and the _Acta Borussica. Denkmäler der
preussischen Staatsverwaltung im 18. Jahrhundert_ (Berlin, 1892,
fol.). Mention may also be made of C. C. Homeyer's edition of the
_Sachsenspiegel_ and L. A. von Lassberg's edition of the
_Schwabenspiegel_; the many volumes of Wallenstein's letters and
papers; the eighteen volumes of the _Urkunden und Aktenstücke zur
Geschichte des Kurfürsten Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg_ (Berlin,
1864, fol.); and the thirty volumes of the _Politische Korrespondenz
Friedrichs des Grossen_ (Berlin, 1879-1905). Modern writers on these
subjects distinguished for their learning are G. Waitz (_Deutsche
Verfassungsgeschichte_, Kiel and Berlin, 1844, fol.) and G. L. von
Maurer (_Geschichte der Städteverfassung in Deutschland_, Erlangen,
1869-1871, and other cognate writings), their works being valuable not
only for the early institutions of the Germans, but also for those of
other Teutonic peoples. Other works on the German constitution and
German laws are K. F. Eichhorn, _Deutsche Staats- und
Rechtsgeschichte_ (Göttingen, 1843-1844); R. Schröder, _Lehrbuch der
deutschen Rechtsgeschichte_ (Leipzig, 1889 and again 1902); H.
Brunner, _Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte_ (Leipzig, 1887-1892), and
_Grundzüge der deutschen Rechtsgeschichte_ (Leipzig, 1901-1903), and
E. Mayer, _Deutsche und französische Verfassungsgeschichte vom 9.-11.
Jahrhundert_ (Leipzig, 1899).
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