The document is about Justinian's Institutiones, a student textbook created by Tribonian and two professors as the Digest neared completion. It consisted of four books, as there were considered four elements. Two-thirds of Justinian's Institutiones consisted of direct quotes from Gaius' earlier Institutiones. The new Institutiones were used as a manual for students from November 533 onward and given legal authority along with the Digest in December 533.
The document is about Justinian's Institutiones, a student textbook created by Tribonian and two professors as the Digest neared completion. It consisted of four books, as there were considered four elements. Two-thirds of Justinian's Institutiones consisted of direct quotes from Gaius' earlier Institutiones. The new Institutiones were used as a manual for students from November 533 onward and given legal authority along with the Digest in December 533.
The document is about Justinian's Institutiones, a student textbook created by Tribonian and two professors as the Digest neared completion. It consisted of four books, as there were considered four elements. Two-thirds of Justinian's Institutiones consisted of direct quotes from Gaius' earlier Institutiones. The new Institutiones were used as a manual for students from November 533 onward and given legal authority along with the Digest in December 533.
Tribonian and two professors, Theophilus and Dorotheus, made a students' textbook, called the Institutiones or « Elements ». As there were four elements, the manual consisted of four books. The Institutiones are largely based on the Institutiones of Gaius. Two thirds of the Institutiones of Justinian consist of literal quotes from Gaius. The new Institutiones were used as a manual for would-be jurists since 21 November 533 and were given the authority of law on 30 December 533 along with the Digest.
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