the precepts and desires of your eminence, so that this code, by the faith of the honorable Veronicianus, whom the consensus of your amplitude chose along with me, and also by the faith of Anastasius and Martinus, the constitutionarii officials responsible for copying constitutions, whom we have long since approved as serving this office without fault, may be transcribed into three bodies. Thus, let the one I have brought remain in the office of the praetorian prefecture, let the archives of the magnificent prefect of the city hold the second with equal faith, and let the third 5 be retained by the constitutionarii copying officials to be issued to the people under their own faith and risk, in such a way that no copies are issued unless they are written out by the hand of the constitutionarii themselves from this body. Indeed, it will be my diligence to handle that part as well, so that another code written by them may be directed to the province of Africa with equal devotion, so that a form of equal faith may be maintained there as well. 10

And in another hand:
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[EDITION OF THE CONSTITUTIONARII]

I, Flavius Laurentius, scribe of the most honorable senate, have published [this] on the 8th day before the Kalends of January.

[CONSTITUTION CONCERNING THE CONSTITUTIONARII

A. 443.]

20 OUR LORDS THE EMPERORS CAESARS TO FLAVIUS ANASTASIUS AND HILARIUS MARTINUS. As much as the acts of the most honorable senate, submitted to our divine will by the advice of the illustrious Faustus, praetorian prefect, bear witness, we have seen that what the most invincible prince, father of our clemency, prescribed in the observation of guarding the Theodosian Code has been fortified by the senate with greater diligence, so that those who had the license granted to issue copies might be held at risk if the issued copies contained any falsity. And therefore, the illustrious urban prefect, our parent and friend, to whose diligence it pertains to observe more carefully what the senate has decreed for the caution of all, shall know that the license for issuing copies has been granted to you, and the preparation of the aforementioned body must be procured at your own risk alone. Let them have no commerce regarding the edition or the preparation, since it is certain that the risk regarding falsity redounds to you, under the threat of a fine encompassed by prayers, and that both the judicial office and those who have not obeyed our constitutions are bound by the penalty of sacrilege, with all deceit ceasing. GIVEN THE 10TH DAY BEFORE THE KALENDS OF JANUARY AT ROME, IN THE CONSULSHIP OF MAXIMUS II AND PATERIUS, MOST HONORABLE MEN.