The chief value of the Visigothic code is as a source for Roman Law, including the first five books of the Theodosian Code (Codex Theodosianus),"Codex Theodosianus" in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford, 1991, p. 475. five books of the Sententiae Receptae of Julius Paulus. Until the discovery of a manuscript in the chapter library in Verona, which contained the greater part of the Institutes of Gaius, it was the only known work containing the institutional writings of Gaius, an important ancient Roman jurist.
The chief value of the Visigothic code is as a source for Roman Law, including the first five books of the Theodosian ,Code (Codex Theodosianus),"Codex Theodosianus" in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford, 1991, p. 475. five books of the Sententiae Receptae of Julius Paulus. Until the discovery of a manuscript in the chapter library in Verona, which contained the greater part of the Institutes of Gaius, it was the only known work containing the institutional writings of Gaius, a:n impo?rtant ancient Roman jurist.