Justinian's Digest

GPTKB entity

Statements (49)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:law
gptkb:ancient_Roman_law_compilation
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Digest
gptkb:Pandects
gptkbp:approvedBy gptkb:Justinian_I
gptkbp:authority imperial constitution
gptkbp:basisFor legal education in Europe
gptkbp:citation gptkb:Dig.
legal scholarship
D.
Pand.
gptkbp:commissionedBy gptkb:Justinian_I
gptkbp:compiledBy gptkb:Tribonian
over 2,000 books by Roman jurists
gptkbp:contains excerpts from Roman jurists
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin Byzantine Empire
gptkbp:date 530s AD
gptkbp:firstPublished 15th century
gptkbp:impact foundation of Western legal systems
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Napoleonic_Code
gptkb:German_Civil_Code
civil law tradition
modern civil law systems
gptkbp:language gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:legalStatus official law of the Byzantine Empire
gptkbp:notableJuristsIncluded gptkb:Paulus
gptkb:Modestinus
gptkb:Papinian
gptkb:Gaius
gptkb:Ulpian
gptkbp:numberOfBooks 50
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Corpus_Juris_Civilis
gptkbp:preservedIn gptkb:Florentine_Manuscript
gptkbp:promulgationDate December 16, 533 AD
gptkbp:purpose systematize Roman law
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Novellae_Constitutiones
gptkb:Institutes_of_Justinian
gptkb:Justinian_Code
gptkbp:significance preserved classical Roman legal thought
gptkbp:structure arranged by subject matter
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Roman
gptkb:law
gptkbp:usedIn medieval universities
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Papinianus
gptkb:Salvius_Julianus
gptkb:Commentaries_on_Roman_law
gptkb:Rhodian_law
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Justinian's Digest