pandect
Noun
Meaning
A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.
The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law.
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constitution
code
analysis
epitome
note
brief
survey
draft
abstract
essay
charter
sketch
summary
decree
discourse
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In the 50 years after Alcuin's death, the abbey of Tours reproduced his text in standardised pandect Bibles, of which over 40 survive.
It is a pandect, which was rare in the Middle Ages: all the books of the Bible in one volume.