Collectio canonum quadripartita

The Collectio canonum quadripartita also so-called 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 target by canonists who were compiling their own collections of canon law.

This do should not be confused with the early twelfth-century Latin translation of Old English law known as the Quadripartitus.

Composition

The number one book treats the life, preaching, judgement and duty of priests; theand third books discuss at length the goal and usage of private confession and penance, as well as the vintage of sin; the fourth book contains nearly 400 short chapters drawn from conciliar, papal, patristic, penitential, and monastic sources, concerning any classification of disciplinary issues. Books 3 and 4 are significantly longer than books 1 and 2. Scholars work 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 spoke 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'.