Synopsis (Basilicorum) maior

The Synopsis (Basilicorum) maior is a Middle Byzantine legal book.

description

The work is an alphabetically arranged short version of the so-called basilicas . It is divided into a religious preamble and the 24 letters (στοιχεῖα) of the Greek alphabet, which in turn are divided into (one to 72) titles. The titles provided with a heading usually contain one or more chapters taken from the basilicas in the wording (with precise details of the place), sometimes only pointers. The Synopsis (Basilicorum) maior , preserved in almost 50 manuscripts, is the most frequently passed collection of secular law from the Middle Byzantine period. Some of the manuscripts contain valuable scholia. The work is usually followed by an appendix in the handwritten tradition, the most important parts of which are novellas by Middle Byzantine emperors. Both the synopsis (Basilicorum) maior itself and the original form of its appendix are likely to go back to Symeon Logothetes and the time of the emperor Nikephoros Phokas (963–969).

Edition

Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal : Jus Graeco-Romanum , Vol. V, Leipzig 1869 (Ndr. In: Ioannis Zepos , Panagiotis Zepos : Jus Graecoromanum, Vol. V, Athens 1931 [Ndr. Aalen 1962])

literature

Nicolas G. Svoronos: Recherches sur la tradition juridique à Byzance. La Synopsis Major des Basiliques et ses appendices , Paris 1964
Spyros Troianos : Οι πηγές του βυζαντινού δικαίου , 3rd edition, Athens / Komotini 2011, pp. 275-278

Individual evidence

↑ See Ludwig Burgmann, Marie Theres Fögen , Andreas Schminck , Dieter Simon , Repertorium der Manschriften des Byzantine Rechts , Vol. I, Frankfurt am Main 1995, pp. 459-460.
↑ Cf. Marie Theres Fögen : On the restitution of B. 37.1 and 2 , in: Fontes minores , Vol. III, 1979, pp. 178-193; Joachim Dittrich: The Scholia of Cod. Taur. BI20 on the right of inheritance of the basilicas , in: Fontes minores , Vol. IX, 1993, pp. 181-298; Dorotei Getov: A collection of pods for the Synopsis Basilicorum maior , in: Fontes minores , Vol. XI, 2005, pp. 325-413.

^ Andreas Schminck : On the individual legislation of the "Macedonian" emperors, in: Fontes minores , Vol. XI, 2005, p. 290.

[1] See Ludwig Burgmann, Marie Theres Fögen , Andreas Schminck , Dieter Simon , Repertorium der Manschriften des Byzantine Rechts , Vol. I, Frankfurt am Main 1995, pp. 459-460.

[2] Cf. Marie Theres Fögen : On the restitution of B. 37.1 and 2 , in: Fontes minores , Vol. III, 1979, pp. 178-193; Joachim Dittrich: The Scholia of Cod. Taur. BI20 on the right of inheritance of the basilicas , in: Fontes minores , Vol. IX, 1993, pp. 181-298; Dorotei Getov: A collection of pods for the Synopsis Basilicorum maior , in: Fontes minores , Vol. XI, 2005, pp. 325-413.

[3] Andreas Schminck : On the individual legislation of the "Macedonian" emperors, in: Fontes minores , Vol. XI, 2005, p. 290.