 From the circumstance that the "Breviarium" has prefixed to it a royal rescript ("commonitorium") directing that copies of it, certified under the hand of Anianus, should be received exclusively as law throughout the kingdom of the Visigoths, the compilation of the code has been attributed to Anianus by many writers, and it is frequently designated the "Breviary of Anianus" ("Breviarium Aniani").The code, however, appears to have been known amongst the Visigoths by the title of "Lex Romana", or "Lex Theodosii", and it was not until the 16th century that the title of "Breviarium" was introduced to distinguish it from a recast of the code, the "Lex Romana Curiensis" which was introduced into northern Italy in the 9th century for the use of the Romans in Lombardy.This recast of the Visigothic code was published in the 18th century for the first time by Paolo Canciani in his collection of ancient laws entitled "Barbarorum Leges Antiquae".