The Navel, Reflections on the composition of the Quarta pars Digestorum

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Tijdschrift Voor Rechtsgeschiedenis-Revue D Histoire Du Droit-The Legal History Review Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI:10.1163/15718190-00880a14

W. Zwalve, T. D. Vries

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In an earlier edition of Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis we have contended that Justinian’s Digest was composed on the basis of Ulpian’s Libri ad Edictum and the peculiarities and special exigencies of the legal curriculum. It was also contended that the distribution of the fifty books over the seven partes of the Digest was based on a mathematical formula, complicated by the fact that Justinian (Tribonian) had decided to assign four books to the first pars (Ta prota) and 36 to the first five partes together according to ‘the nature and science of numbers’ (natura et ars numerorum). This article offers some additional arguments supporting our thesis and concentrates on the composition of the quarta pars Digestorum, designated by Justinian himself as ‘The Navel’ (Umbilicus) of the entire composition. The hypothesis is that Tribonian composed the quarta pars Digestorum as a microcosm of the Digest as a whole and that he has been ‘juggling with numbers’ within the composition of ‘The Navel’ as he has ostensibly done in the composition of the Digest as a whole.

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《肚脐》，对《四分文集》组成的反思

在《法学研究》的早期版本中，我们认为查士丁尼的《摘要》是在乌尔比安的《诏书》和法律课程的特殊性和特殊紧迫性的基础上写成的。还有人认为，《文摘》七部分的五十本书的分配是基于一个数学公式的，而查士丁尼(Tribonian)决定根据“数字的本质和科学”(natura et ars numerorum)，将四本书分配给前几部分(Ta prota)，将三十六本书分配给前五部分，这一事实使情况更加复杂。这篇文章提供了一些额外的论据来支持我们的论点，并集中在四分之一的部分，由查士丁尼自己指定为整个作品的“肚脐”(脐部)。假设特里博尼安将《四分之一的消化》作为《文摘》整体的缩影他在《肚脐》的创作中一直在"玩弄数字"就像他在《文摘》整体的创作中所做的那样。

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期刊介绍： The Legal History Review, inspired by E.M. Meijers, is a peer-reviewed journal and was founded in 1918 by a number of Dutch jurists, who set out to stimulate scholarly interest in legal history in their own country and also to provide a centre for international cooperation in the subject. This has gradually through the years been achieved. The Review had already become one of the leading internationally known periodicals in the field before 1940. Since 1950 when it emerged under Belgo-Dutch editorship its position strengthened. Much attention is paid not only to the common foundations of the western legal tradition but also to the special, frequently divergent development of national law in the various countries belonging to, or influenced by it.