| LC control no. | n 85194972 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Uniform title heading | Codex (Corpus juris civilis) |
| Variant(s) | Corpus juris civilis. Codex Codex constitutionum Codex repetitae praelectionis Codex Iustinianus Codex Justinianus Code (Corpus juris civilis) |
| Form of work | Codices (Law) |
| Beginning date | 0592 |
| Found in | Révigny, J. de. Petri de Bella Perthica ... Lectura i[n]signis et fecunda super prima[-secunda] parte Codicis Dominis Iustiniani, 1519. LC data base, 8-27-85 (hdg.: Corpus juris civilis. Codex) Columbia encycl.: under Corpus juris civilis (the Codex or Code, a collection of imperial legislation since the time of Hadrian; one of 4 parts of the Corpus juris compiled by order of Justinian I) Oxford companion to law (Codex Justinianus; in A.D. 528 Justinian appointed a commission to recompile into one document all the valid imperial constitutions, with power to omit obsolete ones and to resolve conflicts; the code was published in 529, and remained in force until 534; save for fragments it has not survived; in 534 a new code, taking into account the changes caused by the subsequent compilation of the Justinian Digesta and Institutiones and taking into account new legislation since 529, prepared by a second Justinian commission, was published in supersession of the original codex; it was therefore entitled Codex repetitae praelectionis; it comprises 12 books; in later times the last 3 books became separated from the first 9 and were combined with the Institutiones and the Authenticum [and other texts; see authority record for Corpus juris civilis] in a volume called the Volumen or Volumen parvum) Encyc. Britannica: Micropaedia, V, p. 645 (Codex constitutionum issued in 529 in 10 books; revised version, Codex repetitae praelectionis, issued 534, has 12 books; article refers to the work as Codex) Encyc. Americana, 1983: XXIII, p. 643 (Code (Codex), in 12 books) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 85202785 |
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