Theodosian Code, Volume 2

11. 460 Mar. 28 On episcopal judgment, etc.: the rubric is present in Γ, where the context is missing; a portion of it was preserved by the Additions to the Alaric epitome.
12. . . . . . . . On charioteers and seditious persons: the rubric is in Γ, but the context is missing in our books.

II. The second collection of novel laws.

The second collection of novels exists in the Alaric Breviary. Insofar as it includes Theodosian, Valentinian, and Majorian laws, it is nothing but an epitome of the first collection. It is apparent that the Alaricians used a manuscript that was not mutilated at the end and was in some places better than Γ. From the 26 Theodosian titles, they received eleven in the same order: 1—2—3—9—11—13—14—15—16—20—22, 1, 2. From the 36 Valentinian [titles], they received twelve: 14—18—19—21, 1, 2—23—25—1, 3—27—31—32—33—35, with the same order as in the first collection maintained, except that Majorian's novel 1, 3, taken from the first title alone, holds the seventh place in the Breviary between novels 25 and 27, even though given on March 5, 450, it would have been more correctly placed after novel 27, given on June 17, 449. Finally, from the Majorian [laws], the Visigothic jurists received only one, namely the seventh.

To these novels of the first collection, the Visigoths, having obtained a body [of law] similar to that of a single Constantinopolitan emperor, added a collection of five Marcian constitutions, which, following the order of time, they placed between the Valentinian and Majorian [laws]. Their rubrics are these:
1. 450 Oct. 11 That no one be exhibited, etc.
2. 450 after Oct. 11 On the remission of arrears.
3. 451 Jan. 18 On the estates of all cities.
4. 454 Apr. 4 On the marriages of senators.
5. 455 Apr. 22 On the testaments of clerics.

Besides the novels praised in all the extant books of the Breviary, after the one Majorian novel (= Corp. Nov. Majoriani 7), in which the Alarician [collection] terminated, there are found an excerpt from Majorian's novel 11 (missing in Γ) and a novel of the Roman emperor Severus (461—465), which is today numbered first (dated Feb. 20, 463). Mommsen (in the first volume of this work, p. XXXV) demonstrated that the Breviary was not completed by the Visigothic sages but was published imperfectly. This is confirmed best by the Novels. For although at the beginning of the interpretation of Valentinian novel 35 (v. 116 sqq.) we read that what had been said in that same constitution of Valentinian concerning clerics approaching episcopal judgment was abrogated by a later law of Majorian (namely, Majorian novel 11), nothing of the sort is found in the Breviary. Therefore, after the Alaricians, who certainly did not receive anything but complete laws (Mommsen l.l. p. XXXVI), an epitome of Majorian novel 11 was added by the continuators of the Breviary before the third collection was composed and no less before all our manuscripts were written.