Front page of the "Procheiron" or "Hexabiblos" of "Constantine Harmenopoulos"(1320 - 1380/1385), "Cologne 1549" edition by "Bernardus a Rey", latin translation, reprint of the original 1547 version(1st known Latin translation from Greek, along with that of Denis Godefroy in Geneva, 1547). "Hexabiblos" was a Byzantine legal treatise of the 14th century, that continued to be widely used in the Balkan territories throughout the later Ottoman Empire's presence. At 1828, it was adopted by the newly founded Greek state as the state's civic code, where it remained so until 1946.