The corpus civilis is a collection of laws and legal ruiling concerning civil law, compiled by order of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian' between 529 and 534 and was considered a civil code at that time. The corpus would go on to play a major role in western legal. History and european lan. FIRST page is loose. No restoration applied. Original condition. Numbered pages (each chapter) 1-143, 1-1568, 1-715, 1-523. Indexes are not numbered. Only the first page is a loose leaf. Was owned by the duke of Limburg in the 18th century, De La Saulx Corpus Iuris Civilis - 1620 Corpusiuris civiles iustinaei universum: in quo pandectae, ad florentinarum exemplat fidelitor expressae: codex, et caetri libri, quos docebit pagina quarta,ex optimarum quarmumque editionum editionum collatione nunc emendiator prodeunt. Anno: 1620 Author: Justinianus Agustus Editor: Apud Johannem Vignon Publication: Gene