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did not have any adverse effect. 82 Law teaching presumably survived even
the fateful year 507. In Lyons law may also have been taught, at least in the
Burgundian period: 83 legal manuscripts suggest significant activity, since a
fifth- or sixth-century copy of the Codex Theodosianus, a late-sixth- or earlyseventh-century
Theodosian manuscript, and the seventh-century manuscript,
now divided between St Petersburg and Berlin, which contains
decisions of a Gallic council, the Notitia Galliarum, a papal letter and the
Constitutiones Sirmondianae, all probably originated in Lyons. 84 In Carthage,
too, it is probable that law was taught in the third and fourth centuries.
Presumably there was one paid teacher endowed by the town itself, his post
perhaps surviving into the period of the Vandals. 85
vi. legal literature
In the fifth and sixth centuries there was a modest output of legal writing,
mostly in Greek. 86 In 430 there appeared a private collection of imperial
enactments relating to ecclesiastical law, the so-called Constitutiones
Sirmondianae. This probably emanated from Gaul. 87 Also from Gaul, in 445,
comes the so-called Consultatio veteris cuiusdam iurisconsulti, a collection of
authorities on the theme of settlement from the pseudo-Pauline Sententiae
and from the codices of imperial constitutions, which was put together for
use in a lawsuit. 88 A papyrus of the fifth or possibly the fourth century contains
the remains of a Greek collection of Latin technical terms, the socalled
Collectio definitionum. The Beirut teacher Anatolius also composed a
dialogue with a student in the sixth century. 89 To the fifth or sixth century
or even later belongs The Laws and Customs of Palestine of Julian of Ascalon,
a collection of authorities relating to the law of building in Palestine. It survives
only in fragments. 90 Of similar provenance is The Laws of the Christian
and Just Kings, the so-called Sententiae Syriacae, which is an unsystematic collection
of 102 short propositions on diverse subjects taken by their
unknown author mostly from constitutions of Diocletian, but also from
the Pauli Sententiae, occasionally from constitutions of Constantine and at
82 Sid. Ap. Carm. xxiii.446,54, 464,74; Ep. ii.13.1.
83 Sid. Ap. Ep. v.5 to Syagrius a.d. 469; also i.3; v.17.2 for Filimatius. Liebs (1987) 161f. for legal
work at Lyons.
84 Parisinus 9643, CLA 591; Vaticanus reginae 886, CLA 110; Berolinensis Philipps 1745, formerly
the Cathedral Library of Lyons, CLA 1061.
85 Liebs (1993) 19f., 119; Halban (1899) ii.71–7;Wolff (1936) 398–420, esp. 417.
86 Heimbach (1868); Krüger (1912) 361–5, 406–15; Wenger (1953) 549–53, 681–92; Scheltema
(1970); Pieler (1978) 341–428; van der Wal and Lokin (1985) 20–62, 121–30.
87 Ed. by Mommsen, in Cod. Theod.pp.907–21; cf. Liebs (1993) 109–14.
88 Ed. by Krüger (1890) 199–220; Huschke et al.(1927) 485–514; cf. Schindler (1962); Wieacker (1955)
92, 110–14; Gaudemet (1979a) 84. On the dating: Liebs (1993) 142 n. 52.
89 Pieler (1978) 390. Collectio definitionum, ed. Arangio-Ruiz, PSI 1348. Cf. Schulz (1953) 308; Liebs
90 (1971) 87–8. Cf. Nicole (1893) 65–75; Ferrini (1929); Saliou (1996).
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