The Peira and the Basilica by Stolte, B

“…Careful scrutiny of two passages in the eleventh-century collection of court cases known as the <em>Peira</em> demonstrates that Byzantine law was founded on the Corpus Iuris of Justinian and that quotations from the <em>Basilica</em>, which provided easy access to the normative written law, could be supplemented by direct references to Justinianic legislation and associated scholia. …”