Institutes of Gaius
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Institutiones · Institutiones Juris Civilis · an educational work... by Gaius · the manuscript of Gaius
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Institutes of Roman Law
Gaius's legal handbook, transmitted via the Veronese palimpsest.
‘but from the proem to Justinian’s Institutes appears to have been Institutiones, or to distinguish it from the systems of rhetoric which also bore this name, Institutiones Juris Civilis.
In communication with Savigny, Niebuhr came to the conclusion that the lowest or earliest inscription was an elementary treatise on Roman Law by Gaius, a treatise hitherto only known, or principally known, to Roman lawyers by a barbarous epitome of its contents inserted in the Code of Alaric II, King of the Visigoths (§ 1, 22, Comm.
‘Certain internal evidences fix the date at which portions of the Institutions were composed.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Gaius's second-century educational treatise on Roman law, recovered from a palimpsest manuscript found by Niebuhr.
This manuscript, when deciphered, proved to be a nearly perfect copy of an educational work, written in the second century of our era, for young Roman students of law, by one of the most famous of Roman lawyers, Gaius or Caius.