Margaritae

Canon lawyers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries taught canon law by commenting on the Decretum of Gratian and on the various collections of the Decretals. The margaritae were developed as collections to aid memory. They arranged the more important propositions, denominated "résumés", and axioms in alphabetical an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. or by mentioned matter, including mnemonic verse. many of these margaritae draw been preserved, but non all of their authors are certainly known. Some of them shit been printed with the Decretum or the Decretals of Gregory IX.