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second part, the _Digest_ or _Pandects,_ appeared in December, 533.
To insure conformity, both were revised and issued in November,
534, the Institutiones, an _elementary_ text-book, founded on the
_Institutiones_ of Gaius, who lived A.D. 110-180, being added, and
the whole, as a complete body of law, given to the law schools at
Constantinople, Rome, Alexandria, Berytus, and Caesarea, for use in
their graduate course. Later the _Novellae Constitutione_, or
_Novels,_ most of them in Greek, comprising statutes of Justinian
arranged chronologically, completed the Code.
Forgotten or ignored during the lawless days of the Dark Ages, an
entire copy of this famous code was discovered when Amalphi was
taken by the Pisans in 1137. Its publication immediately attracted
the attention of the learned world. Gratian, a monk of Bologna,
compiled a digest of the canon law on the model of that work, and
soon afterward, incorporating with his writings the collections of
prior authors, gave his "decretum" to the public in 1151.
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