NOVELLAE Constitutiones – VOLUMEN LEGUM parvum, quod vocant: In quo haec insunt: Tres posteriores libri Codicis DN. Iustiniani Sacratiss. Principis, eadem cura, qua priores novem, emendati. Authenticae seu Novellae Constitutiones eiusdem Principis: in quas quid operae sit impressum, tertia ab hinc pagina ANTONII CONTII apud Biturigas Iuris professoris ordinarii epistola diserte dommonstrat. Feudorum libri duo. Constitutiones Friderichi II.Imperatoris. Extravagantes duae Henrici VII. Imperatoris. Tractatus de pace Constantiae. Omnia commentarii suis illustrata, & sedulo recognita. Paris, Apud Gulielmum Merlin in ponte Numulariorum:& Gulielmum Desboys sub sole aureo, ac Sebastianum Nivellium sub Ciconiis, via Iacobaea, 1559. 4to. (Reprint Vico Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012) Titelblatt mit Druckersignet, 9ungezählte Blätter, 324,642, (1), 190 Spalten, 6ungezählte Blätter. Lutetiae Parisiorum, ex officina typographica Gulielmi Desboys sub Sole aureo in via Iacobaea, Abbo Domini M.D.LIX. Half-linen Order-no.: IC-111 ISBN 978-3-86303-243-2 available

Biener Nr. 86 Vorhanden in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin und in der Privatbibliothek von Savigny. The preface by Contius (1517-1586) narrates the history of the Novellea editions from Haloander to Scrimger. In the collection of the nine collations Contius appended to each Novelle the number references from Haloander’s edition. He was the first to divide Novellea into chapters and precede each chapter with a description of the contents. For the text, Contius compared Greek editions and consulted manuscripts, but by and large left the surviving text unchanged and presented his improvements in the notes. He paid particular attention to the subscriptiones, extending and improving them from Scrimger, Julian and manuscripts of the authenticae. Contius appended exegetic and critical notes to the text, some of which were in the glossary and marked Additio or Not., some were in the margins directly beneath the apostilles and notabilibus already to be found in the earlier editions. However, to all of them Contius appended his own Sigle Cont.. The tenth collation appended by Contius bears the heading: Novellarum constitutionum DN. Justiniani Pp. A. quae in superioribus novem collationibus variis locis desitheatur, collatio decima. This tenth collation contains 63 numbers in Latin, but no division into chapters.

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