Nomocanon
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
(1) A collection of canons and imperial laws relative or conformable thereto. The first nomocanon was made by Johannes Scholasticus in 554, Photius, patriarch of Constantinople, in 883, compiled another nomocanon, or collation of the civil laws with the canons; this is the most ecelebrated. Balsamon wrote a commentary uponitin 1180. (2) A collection of the ancient canons of the apostles, councils, and fathers, without any regard lo imperial constitutions. Such is the nomovanon by M. Cotelier, Enc. Lond.