Mr Geering’s Book of Roman Law

Being unable to visit family over Christmas gave me the chance to finish a project that I have been working on since 2016. I have produced a manuscript copy of The Institutes of Justinian in uncial script, and bound it in the ancient fashion into a Coptic codex. The outer boards are made of yew.

Coptic bookbinding was developed in Roman Egypt, and remained the standard method of binding books until the 11^th century. The quires are stitched together, and then sewn onto the book boards. The Institutes were devised by a panel of legal experts under orders from the Roman Emperor Justinian in the early 6^th Century, in order to provide an up-to-date textbook for law students.

Written by Mr Nicholas Geering.