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.
‘Certain internal evidences fix the date at which portions of the Institutions were composed.
About a tenth of the whole is lost or completely illegible, but part of this may be restored from Justinian’s Institutes, or from other sources;
‘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.
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.