Basilika

The Basilicas (Greek: τὰ βασιλικὰ [ νόμιμα or βιβλία ] = the imperial [ laws or books ] ) are a collection of Byzantine law in 60 books. The Collection of Laws (whose designation as basilicas in the 11th century is detectable) was started under the Byzantine emperor Basil I and his son Leo VI. - Probably 888 - completed. After Leon VI. wrote the preface, the purpose of the work a clearer compilation of the laws of the material contained in the Corpus iuris Civilis with precipitation everything superfluous. Almost exclusive sources of basilicas are accordingly the four parts of the Justinian codification, the institutions but only to a very limited extent, because these by its own introduction text book ( the Eisagoge tu nomu, later the Procheiros nomos ) were replaced. For the Latin texts of the Digest and the Codex Justinian the compilers of the basilicas resorted to Greek translations of the Antecessores from the time of Emperor Justinian I.. The 60 books are divided into titles, which are ordered by matters and regularly built in such a way that the chapters in question ( κεφάλαια ) those from the Codex Justinian and this, in turn, those follow from the Digest of Justinian I from the novels. Many books of the basilicas in only one manuscript, some are handwritten not handed and can only indirectly - for example by the Eisagoge aucta, the synopsis maior that, the Tipukeitos and the comment Theodoros Balsamon Peira - partly restituted. In the mid-11th century, the work was revised under the direction of Ioannes Xiphilinos and provided with a Katenen commentary, which for the most part of so-called "old scholia " ( excerpts from the writings of Antecessores ) and to a small extent from young or. younger (or even new ) scholia (Single commentaries mainly from the 11th century ) there.

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