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256 9. roman law
least twice, towards the end, from constitutions of Leo. There survives only
a Syriac translation of what was evidently in origin a Greek text.
Similarly, it is only through Syriac, Arab, Armenian and Coptic translations
of the Greek original that we know the so-called Syro-Romano Law
Book, a supposed collection of constitutions of Constantine, Theodosius
and Leo. The author is unknown. It contained a comprehensive collection
of constitutions of the fourth and fifth centuries up to 472, matched up
with short extracts from juristic writing too – 130 items in all, covering
various subjects. It also belongs to the late fifth or early sixth century. 91 The
De actionibus, a small book in Greek, similarly anonymous, collects fortythree
short opinions concerning the claims that could be made on different
facts. It dates at the earliest from Justinian’s time and, like the other items
already mentioned, was undoubtedly directed at the practitioner. 92
There were also teaching materials which for the most part were not
intended for publication. (The Consultatio was also probably not so
intended.) Among these are the many commentaries on the texts studied
in the curriculum, from juristic writings, collections of constitutions or the
volumes of Justinian’s corpus iuris. Our knowledge of this class of literature
is sparse and comes mostly from schools in the west teaching in Latin. Thus
the Lex Romana Visigothorum contains a much abbreviated paraphrase of
the Institutes of Gaius, the Liber Gaii. 93 It stems from teaching-activity in
about 460, presumably in Narbonne. Roughly to the same time and place
belong the Interpretationes to the pseudo-Pauline Pauli Sententiae, also preserved
in the Visigothic Lex Romana. 94 With these also stand the commentaries
on an extract from the Codex Gregorianus and a very short piece of the
Hermogenianus, 95 and, most important, that on the Theodosianus 96 and the
post-Theodosian Novels. 97
By contrast, from Sicily or northern Italy come the so-called Antiqua summaria,
a thin work on the full Theodosianus from the later fifth century. The
second half survives. 98 From the school in Rome in 545 some observations
on Justinian’s Institutes for a first-year course, the so-called Turin gloss. 99
From the same source come, about 560, the so-called Paratitla to Julian’s
epitome of the Novels, giving short accounts of the changes which
Justinian’s novels introduced. This comes from a course on the Novels based
91 Bruns and Sachau (1880) (the German translation is no longer satisfactory); Sachau (1907). Cf.
Selb (1964), (1965); Kaufhold (1966); Vööbus (1972), (1975); Memmer (1990). Sent. Syr.: Selb (1990).
92 Sitzia (1973), with Simon’s review (1975).
93 Ed. Hänel (1849) 314–37; Kübler in Huschke et al.(1927) 395–431. Cf. Archi (1937), with Nelson
(1995), review of Archi.
94 Ed. Hänel (1849) 338–444; Kaser and Schwarz (1956); cf. Schellenberg (1965).
95 Ed. Hänel (1849) 444–51; Krüger et al. (1890) 221–35; cf. Kreuter (1993).
96 Ed. Mommsen, in Cod. Theod. 97 Ed. Meyer (1905).
98 Ed. Manenti (1887) 257–88; (1888) 141–57; (1889) 203–311. New edn Sirks (1996b). Cf. Liebs
(1987) 177–88; Sirks (1991) 247–50, 345–50, 380f., 416–20; Sirks (1996c).
99 Ed. Krüger (1868) 44–78; Alberti (1933); cf. Liebs (1987) 195–220.
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