Ero sivun ”Digesta” versioiden välillä

The principal surviving manuscript is the [[Littera Florentina]] of the late sixth or early seventh century. In the Middle Ages, the Digest was divided into three parts, and most of the manuscripts contain only one of these parts.<ref>Jolowicz & Nicholas, supra note 2 at 491. For a detailed account of how the Digest and other parts of the Corpus Juris Civilis were transmitted from the end of antiquity to the Renaissance, see Charles M. Radding & Antonio Ciaralli, ''The Corpus Iuris Civilis in the Middle Ages: Manuscripts and Transmissions from the Sixth Century to the Juristic Revival'' (2007)</ref> The entire Digest was translated into English in 1985.<ref>''The Digest of Justinian'' (Theodor Mommsen, Paul Krueger, & Alan Watson eds., 1985).</ref>

 

The codified authorities often conflicted. Therefore, Justinian ordered these conflicts to be settled and fifty of these were published as the "quinquaqinta decisiones" (fifty decisions). Soon after, he further decreed that the works of these ancient writers, which totalled over 1,500 books, be condensed into fifty books. These were to be entitled, in Latin, ''Digesta'' (Ordered abstracts) or, in Greek, Πανδέκται ''Pandectae'' ("Encyclopedia").<ref>Honoré, supra note 1 at 804.</ref> In response to this order of December 15, 530 ("Deo auctore"), Tribonian created a commission of sixteen members to do the work—one government official, four professors, and eleven advocates.<ref>Jolowicz & Nicholas, supra note 2 at 480.</ref>

 

 

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