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MARIO VARVARO

Der Gaius der Preußen

  • Authors: Varvaro, M
  • Publication year: 2011
  • Type: Articolo in rivista (Articolo in rivista)
  • Key words: Gai Institutiones; Palimpsestforschung; praescriptio pro reo
  • OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/55341

Abstract

The discovery of the Palimpsest of the Gaius' Institutions in 1816 occurred at the height of palimpsest research and is part of a broader controversy among German and Italian scholars at that time. The deciphering of the lower stratum of the palimpsest and its first publication was supported by the Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften and was considered as a product of German intellectual spirit. The transcriptions were transferred to the Akademie der Wissenschaften and later to the Königliche Bibliothek of Berlin. Today they are preserved in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. They still constitute an indispensable basis for the constitutio textus of Gaius' Institutions.