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This presentation describes the creation and transmission of Justinian's Code and his Novels (Novellae Constitutiones) from the 6th century to their translation into English in the 20th and 21st centuries, and it pays specially attention to the role played by Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Fred Blume in the English translation.

Drawing primarily upon the most authoritative foreign-language sources, this article provides an English-language survey of how compilations of Justinian's Novels (novellae constitutions) were created and passed along over nearly two thousand years.