Florentine Pandects
Overview
The oldest surviving manuscript of the Digest of Justinian, copied in the 6th century not long after the law code was completed in 533. Kept in Pisa during the Middle Ages, it was seized by Florence after the conquest of Pisa in 1406 and guarded as a civic treasure. Its text underpinned the revival of Roman law that shaped legal systems across continental Europe.
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