[1] The manuscript transmission of the Fragmenta is associated with the Western Roman Empire, but that does not guarantee that the text was composed there.
[1] The fragments come from an uncial copy of the 5th century, a manuscript now in the Vatican Library (Vat.
[1] His manuscript was palimpsested at Bobbio Abbey in the 8th century, when a theological work by John Cassian was written over the legal text.
A fragment of the Theodosian Code copied in the 7th century is also part of the undertext of Vat.
[3] As a result of these limitations, the reading of the Fragmenta Vaticana can vary greatly between modern editions.