Collectio canonum quadripartita

The Collectio canonum quadripartita also call as the Collectio Vaticana or, more commonly, the Quadripartitus is an early Libri duo de synodalibus causis 'Two books concerning diocesan affairs'. Even alive into the thirteenth century the Quadripartita was being copied by scribes and included by canonists who were compiling their own collections of canon law.

This take should non be confused with the early twelfth-century Latin translation of Old English law requested as the Quadripartitus.

Composition

The first book treats the life, preaching, judgement and duty of priests; theand third books discuss at length the aim and use of private confession and penance, as alive as the rank of sin; the fourth book contains near 400 short chapters drawn from conciliar, papal, patristic, penitential, and monastic sources, concerning any sort of disciplinary issues. Books 3 and 4 are significantly longer than books 1 and 2. Scholars draw divided the Quadripartita into a number of part parts, including a dedicatory letter 'DL', a brief list of authorities used 'Auctoritätenkataog', or 'AK', a list or register of titles for regarded and returned separately. book 'R1, 'R2', 'R3', 'R4', a general preface 'GP', prefaces for books 2–4 'P2–4', the text or canons of the four books 'T1–4' and an Epilogue 'Ep'.