FLORENTINE PANDECTS

A copy of the Pandects discovered, accidentally about the year 1137, at Amalphl, a town in Italy, near Salerno. From Amalphl, the copy found its way to Pisa, and, Pisa having submitted to the Florentines In 1406, the copy was removed in great triumph to Florence. By direction of the magistrates of the town, it was immediately bound in a superb manner, and deposited In a costly chest. Formerly, these Pandects were shown only by torch-light, in the presence of two magistrates, and two Cistercian monks, with their heads uncovered. They have been successively collated by Politian, Bologninl, and Antonius Augustinus. An exact copy of them was published in “1553 by Franciscus Tnurellus. For Its accuracy and beauty, this edition ranks high among the ornaments of the press. Brenchman, who collated the manuscript about 1710, refers it to the sixth century. Butl. Hor. Jur. 90, 91.