"Fontes iuris romani antiqui", ed. Carolus Georgius Bruns, septimum ed. Otto Gradenwitz,1958 : [recenzja]

Henryk Kupiszewski

"Fontes iuris romani antiqui", ed.

Carolus Georgius Bruns, septimum

ed. Otto Gradenwitz,1958 : [recenzja]

The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 14, 193

SURVEY OF LITERATURE 193

All t h r e e lectures are i l l u s t r a t e d freely b y m a n y splendid e x a m p l e s of t h e A u t h o r ' s critical skill in convincingly d e m o n s t r a t i n g t o his r e a d e r s t h e principle q u o t e d b y h i m a t t h e end of his s t u d y , f o r m e r l y f o r m u l a t e d b y C. R o b e r t s : how t h e papyrologist can b r i n g i n t o p l a y s i m u l t a n e o u s l y t h e t h r e e resources a t his disposal—experience, logic a n d p a p y r u s . [A.S.].

Fontes iuris romani antiqui, edidit Carolus Georgius B r u n s ,

s e p t i m u m edidit O t t o G r a d e n w i t z . U n v e r e n d e r t e r N a c h -d r u c k 1958. Scientia A n t i q u a r i a t Aalen. D M 45. —.

Fontes iuris Romani antipui is a collection of t h e most i m p o r t a n t

m o n u m e n t s of t h e p r e - J u s t i n i a n law. F o r over e i g h t y y e a r s it h a s been one of t h e m a i n i n s t r u m e n t s in t h e s t u d y of e v e r y specialist a n d scholar of t h e R o m a n law. T h e editio princeps by C.G. B r u n s w e n t i n t o six e d i t i o n s ; t h e last one was p u b l i s h e d in 1909 b y 0 . Gra-d e n w i t z . T h e new rééGra-dition of t h e collection in t h e s a m e s h a p e which it h a d f i f t y y e a r s ago does n o t s a t i s f y t h e r e q u i r e m e n t s of m o d e r n scholarship. I n t h e collection t h e r e are missing a n u m b e r of v e r y i m p o r t a n t sources which are of p r i m a r y significance for t h e knowledge of t h e p r e - J u s t i n i a n law, a s ; t h e S y r o - R o m a n law-book, t h e Constitutio Antoniniana, G n o m o n of Idios Logos, Gaius f r o m O x y r h y n c h u s , t h e tabula Hebana, t h e tabulae Herculanenses, t h e A p o k r i m a t a , t h e fragmentům Leidense Pauli sententiarum, only t o m e n t i o n t h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t sources p a r t l y i n c o r p o r a t e d in t h e I t a l i a n collection FIRA2, edited in t h e y e a r s 1940—1943.

I n spite of these essential deficiencies t h e reimpression issued b y Scientia A n t i q u a r i a t in Aalen, to which we owe also t h e t h i r d edition of t h e Edictum perpetuum of L e η e 1, will be received b y scholars w i t h g r a t i t u d e . Till t h e p u b l i c a t i o n of a new collection, t h a t will s a t i s f y t h e r e q u i r e m e n t s , of t h e p r e s e n t s t a t e of scholarship, t h e Fontes will r e m a i n t h e u n m a t c h e d aid in t h e c o n t e m p o r a r y research studies of R o m a n law. [ H . K . ]

E r n s t S c h ö n b a u e r , Die neugefundenen Reskripte des Septimius

Severus. P. Col. 123 (Anzeiger der phil. hist. Klasse d. Österrei-chischen Ak. d. Wissenschaften 1957 N o . 12 p p . 165 — 197).

I n t h e b e g i n n i n g t h e a u t h o r discusses t h e new r e a d i n g proposed b y S c h i l l e r a n d J o u t i e a n d t h e n analyses t h e legal c o n t e n t of t h e a p o k r i m a t a 1—6 a n d 9—13 t o u n d e r s t a n d i n g of which he