I GIURISTI UMANISTI FRANCESI E IL <em>CORPUS IURIS ANTEIUSTINIANI</em>

Abstract

Rediscovery of legal texts earlier than Justinian's Corpus Iuris Ciuilis is an important part of the activity of humanist jurists, mainly of French ones, because most of related manuscripts were preserved in capitular and monastic libraries within the kingdom of France. But ius anteiustinianum was in no way a homogeneous corpus, so that its edition raised very complex problems, which were answered in different ways from the 16^th to the 19^th century.