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Corpus Juris Cuilis
1) Codex or Code - a collection of imperial constitutions after the
time of Hadrian - contains a number of dated legal
enactments of Justinian
See #378 2) the Digest or Pandects - a selection of quotations from the
classic jurists, esp. Gaius, Paulus, Ulpian etc.
3) Institutes - a textbook based on Gaius's Institutes
4) Novelas or Novellae, new laws which followed a revision
+ amplification of the Codex. The Novellae comprire
Institutions legal enactments after publication of the code + arua
most valuable source not only fro the legislation itself, but for
official ideology + propaganda.
the 1st body of law to be given printed form : Peter Schoefter, Mainz 24 May 1460 Goff J 506
C 482 - birth of Justinian
524 - marriage of Justinian + Theodora
527 - death of justinian I - succession of Justinian
529 - 7 April 1st Union of God issued. (a radical reform which
would restore Roman Law to its pristine purity, to all
uncertainties + contradictions removed, + all indecent antiquanianism
dropped.
533 - Pubication of the Digest - compilation of all the responses
of the j misconsults of the Classic period, arranged according
to subject matters + divided into 50 books.
Nov. 533 - Institutes
534 publication 2nd version of Code - its is this 2nd version
which we still possess.
565 - 14 Nov. - death of Justian.

In civil law, the new starting point was the rediscovery about 1070 of Justinian's
Digest. The standard apparatius was of Accursius (1228) For canon
law, Gratian, a Camaldolese monk at bologna, had compiled his
Concordia discordantium canonum. The standard apparatus to it was the
work of Bartholomeau of Brescia (c. 1250)
(Casus decretorum)