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The Medieval Church · c. 1238
The Nomocanon
Al-Majmu al-Safawi
Al-Safi ibn al-Assal · 13th century
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What it is
A systematic code of church and civil law for Egyptian Christians, drawing on Byzantine, Syriac, and Islamic legal material.
Why it lasted
Still the working legal code of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and adopted in Ethiopia as the basis of its own law.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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