The Nomocanon in Fifty Titles is an Eastern Christian nomocanon (collection of ecclesiastical law), or syntagma (a nomocanon without commentary), authored by Antiochian jurist John Scholastikos in the mid-6th century.
John Scholastikos compiled the work in Antioch prior to his ordination in 550.
The work is a compilation of canon law divided into 50 titles. It includes 85 Apostolic Canons, the Ecumenical councils and a number of local councils, and the 68 canons of Cappadocian bishop Basil of Caesarea ( 370–379). Other canons known at the time were not included, such as the Greek translation of the African Code. It was in use until the 12th century.
It was translated into Old Slavic in the Nomocanon of Methodios, authored by Methodios between 865–885, which survived in the Russian-recension Church Slavonic 13/14th-century Ustiug Miscellany and the 16th-century Ioasafskaia Kormchaia. It was also used in the 13th-century Serbian nomocanon Zakonopravilo, dubbed the ultimate civil and canon law source for Slavs in the Middle ages and following centuries.
See also Zakonopravilo, 13th-century Serbian nomocanon
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