TY  - GEN
T1  - The digest of Justinian.
A2  - Watson, Alan, 1933-2018
LA  - English
LA  - Latin
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 1998
ED  - Revised English language edition.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn833582553
AB  - When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as the Code, which collected the legal pronouncements of the Roman emperors, the Institutes, an elementary student's textbook, and the Digest, by far the largest and most highly prized of the three compilations. The Digest was assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by Justinian in 533 to cull everything of value from earlier Roman law. It was for centuries the focal point of legal education in the West and remains today an unprecedented collection of the commentaries of Roman jurists on the civil law.Commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund in 1978, Alan Watson assembled a team of thirty specialists to produce this magisterial translation, which was first completed and published in 1985 with Theodor Mommsen's Latin text of 1878 on facing pages. This paperback edition presents a corrected English-language text alone, with an introduction by Alan Watson.Links to the three other volumes in the set: Volume 1 [Books 1-15]Volume 2 [Books 16-29]Volume 4 [Books 41-50].
OP  - 486
NO  - Originally published 1985 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Revised English-language edition 1998.
NO  - "This is a corrected edition, minus the Latin text, of the four-volume "The Digest of Justinian, Latin text edited by Theodor Mommsen with the aid of Paul Krueger, English translation edited by Alan Watson, published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 1985"--Preface to the paperback edition.
CN  - KJA1112.2 1998eb
SN  - 9780812205534
SN  - 0812205537
SN  - 9780812205541
SN  - 0812205545
SN  - 9780812220353
SN  - 9780812220360
KW  - Justinian : I, : Emperor of the East, : 483?-565. : Digesta.
KW  - Roman law : Sources.
KW  - Roman law
KW  - Ancient Studies.
KW  - Classics.
KW  - History.
KW  - Law.
KW  - Sources
ER  -