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REDC 47 (1990) 23-33
ON THE MEDIEVAL TRADITION OF JUSTINIAN'S NOVELLAE: AN INDEX TITULORUM AUTHENTICI IN NOVEM COLLATIONES DIGESTI
After the fundamental studies of the nineteenth century, especially in the works of Biener (1824), Savigny (1834), and Fleimbach (1846) 1 , modem scholarship has paid surprisingly little attention to the twelfth-century arrangement of the Authenticum in the Bolognese 'Vulgata' of justinian's Novels, although it is this version that was incorporated in the 'Volumen (parvum)' of the medieval five-part manuscripts and the pre-modern editions of ustinian's Corpus. Manuals that speak of 'versio vulgata' when they mean the Authenticum itself 2 only embroil matters, since the complete Authenticurn was not used at all by the Glossators, once the nine Collationes had been put together. Schoell and Kroll in the standard bilingual edition (Corpus luris vol. III), do not even provide an index of the //fui/ of the 134 ‘constitutions' in the full Authenticum. They do indicate, it is true, in the body of their edition, the place in the Collationes for each of the constitutions that are there incorporated; but this will be of little avail, for lack of an appropriate index, to anyone who wants to verify a reference (allegatio) by one of the medieval glossators or commentators. And if the reader turns to Heimbach's cumbersome edition, he will only find that of its three indices 3 (Authenticum set over against Novellae; Collationes against Auth.; Nov. against Auth.), the first does not indicate the Collationes, the second does not say what constitutions are missing there, and the third again bypasses the Collationes altogether 4 The synoptic tables, finally, of -Osenbrüggen (1840ff.) in
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1 F. W. Biener, Geschicbte der Nova/en jusiinian's (Berlin 1824) 243-91, esp. at pp. 271-85; F. C. von Savigny, Geschichte des ni/nimben Rechts ini Mittelalter,111 (2nd ed. Heidelberg 1834) 490-504, esp. at pp. 501ff.: G. E. Heimbach (ed.), Autbenticurn: Novellarum constitutionum lustiniani versio vulgata (2 vols. Lipsiae 1846-51; repr. Aalen 1974), 1 i-deciii, esp. at pp.ececlxxvi-lxxxii. 2 P. Krüger, Geschichte der Qua/en sud Litteratur des Riinzischen Rechts, 2nd ed. (Binding's Handbuch 1.2; München-Leipzig 1912) 399-402; see p.402 n.21; L. Wenger, Die ,Quellen des rómischen Rechts (Denkschriften Akad. Wien 2; Wien 1953) 670 n.198, 678. Even Biener had done so in the title of bis excellent chapter on the 'altlateinische Novellensammlung (Liber authenticorum oder Versio Vulgata)' (p.243); not however Savigny, as Wenger claims. 3 Heimbach 1 deeiv-ix, ciccxv-xxi. 4 There are other shortcomings: (1) in the t rst index one has to correct two misprints: Auth. 79 is Nov. 78 (not 76), ancl Auth. 120 is Nov. 127 (not 128); (2) in the same index his count of the
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