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Updated
1 January
2007
See how to use
Gasparri-Serédi's
CIC
Fontes
to trace QLD
materials that
provided sources
for the 1917 Code.
+
Anon.,
Synopsis Pirhingiana
[1693] pp. 9-15 presents in table form another guide to
Gregorian titles that were impacted by later legislation, but
these tables suffer from a distressing number of typographical
errors (well, at least in the 9th edition of 1849 they do.)
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A guide
to the
commentary on
Decretal Law by
Prospero
Fagnanus
A guide to the
Prompta
Biblioteca
of
Lucius Ferraris
A guide
to the
commentary on
Decretal Law by
Gottofredo da
Trani
A guide
to the
commentary on
Decretal Law by
Franz Schmier
A guide to
Pan-Decretal
commentaries
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The Glossa Ordinaria
on the Decretals of
Gregory were written by Bernard of Parma in the 1260s. See
generally: S. Kuttner and B. Smalley, "The Glossa Ordinaria
to the Gregorian Decretals", English Historical Review 60
(1945) 97-105; and S. Kuttner, "Notes
on the Glossa
Ordinaria of Bernard of Parma", Bulletin of Medieval
Canon Law 11 (1981)
86-93. |
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Canon Law * Ius Decretalium * Friedberg edition
The Quinque Libri
Decretalium
of
St. Raymond Peñafort
The key to unlocking the structure of the
Ius Novissimum is to know
that it was organized around St. Raymond of Peñafort's
"Liber Extra", composed in five books, those books in turn being divided into various titles,
each consisting of "caputs" or provisions.
From its promulgation by Pope Gregory IX in September 1234, until the
Pio-Benedictine Code came into full force in May 1918, the
Quinque Libri Decretalium was the
basic canon law of the Catholic Church. An authoritative collection—not a
code—of canons, the QLD (a title ascribed by the ages, not by St. Raymond or
Pope Gregory) followed a still older five-part division of canonical topics:
Iudex, Iudicium, Clerus, Connubia/Sponsalia, Crimen (Judge, Trial, Cleric,
Marriage, Crime). Raymond’s five books were divided into 185 “titles”,
themselves made up of 1,871 “chapters” (though this number is mildly disputed.).
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St.
Raymond Peñafort
hard
at work on his
Quinque Libri Decretalium, 1230-1234 |
St. Raymond’s QLD was sometimes called the “Liber Extra” (abbreviated “X”),
meaning it held those matters then “outside” (Latin: extra) of Gratian’s
great Concordia Discordantium Canonum (~1140). The QLD was, in
relatively short order, supplemented by two authoritative documents, the
Liber Sextus (1298) of Pope
Boniface VIII (abbreviated “in VI°”, referring to its being the “sixth” book
outside of St. Raymond’s so-called Five Books) and the
Clementinae (1317) of Pope John
XXII (abbreviated “in Clem.”, after the pope who tried to promulgate them before
Pope John XXII had rightly to correct them). Both of these authentic collections
followed the plan of the QLD but, being much shorter, there are many places
where the QLD are not supplemented by either the Liber Sextus or the Clementinae.
Still later, private authors complied short lists of papal decretals that were
“wandering around outside” of even these authentic collections, the
Extravagantes Johannis XXII (~1326)
and the Extravagantes Communes
(1500), both of which follow the QLD order and are regarded as belonging to the
general Corpus Iuris Canonici. Commentators on the QLD were known as
“Decretalists” to distinguish them from “Decretists” or commentators on
Gratian’s so-called Decretum.
The most accessible (but controverted) version of the QLD today, and the one used herein, is that
of Aemilius Friedberg, first published under his editorship from 1879-1881, most
recently reprinted in 1959.
The main function of these tables is to
indicate at a glance where each title of the QLD might, or might not, have been
supplemented by a later part of the Corpus Iuris Canonici. Numbers after
each title indicates how many chapters there are in that title of the Decretals,
while numbers in columns refer to column numbers in the Friedberg edition.
Read more about
the QLD and its fascinating progeny:
The Judge found
at Trial that the
the Cleric who
attempted Marriage
committed a Crime. |
•
A. Van Hove, "Corpus Iuris Canonici",
Catholic Encyclopedia IV:
391-394,
on-line here.
• Aa.vv., “Corpus
Iuris Canonici”, Dictionnaire de Droit
Canonique IV (1949) esp. 627-644.
• Charles Bachofen,
A Commentary on the New Code of Canon
Law I, esp. 36-45.
• James Brundage,
Medieval Canon Law (1995) esp.
54-58, 196-200.
• Amleto Cicognani,
Canon Law (2d ed., 1934) esp. 298-317.
• Pietro Gasparri, “Preface”, in
E.
Peters, trans., The 1917 Pio-Benedictine
Code of Canon Law (2001), esp. 4-7. |
Liber I (Iudex)
|
Titulus
in X. |
Inscriptio in X.
|
X. |
in
VI° |
in
Clem. |
Extravagantes
Ioan. Comm. |
|
I
|
de Summa Trinitate et fide catholica, 2 |
0005 |
0937 |
1133 |
|
|
|
II
|
de
Constitutionibus, 13 |
0007 |
0937 |
|
|
|
|
III
|
de Rescriptis,
43 |
0016 |
0938 |
1134 |
|
|
|
IV
|
de
Consuetudine, 11 |
0036 |
0944 |
|
|
1237 |
|
V
|
de
Postulatione praelatorum, 6 |
0041 |
0945 |
|
|
1237 |
|
VI
|
de Electione et electi potestate, 60 |
0048 |
0945 |
1135 |
1205 |
1238 |
|
VII
|
de
Translatione episcopi, 4 |
0096 |
|
|
|
|
|
VIII
|
de Auctoritate et usu pallii, 7 |
0100 |
|
|
|
1242 |
|
IX
|
de
Renunciatione, 15 |
0102 |
0971 |
1138 |
|
|
|
X
|
de Supplenda
negligentia praelatorum, 5 |
0115 |
0972 |
1139 |
|
|
|
XI
|
de Temporibus ordinationum et qualitate ordinandorum,
17 |
0118 |
0975 |
|
|
|
|
XII
|
de Scrutinio in ordine faciendo, 1 |
0124 |
|
|
|
|
|
XIII
|
de Ordinatis ab episcopo, qui renunciavit episcopatui,
2 |
0125 |
|
|
|
|
|
XIV
|
de Aetate et qualitate et ordine praeficiendorum,
15 |
0125 |
0976 |
1139 |
|
|
|
XV
|
de Sacra
unctione, 1 |
0131 |
|
|
|
|
|
XVI
|
de
Sacramentis non iterandis, 3 |
0134 |
|
|
|
|
|
XVII
|
de Filiis presbyterorum ordinandis vel non, 18 |
0135 |
0977 |
|
|
|
|
XVIII
|
de Servis non ordinandis et eorum manumissione, 8 |
0141 |
|
|
|
|
|
XIX
|
de Obligatis
ad ratiocinia ordinandis vel non, 1 |
0144 |
|
|
|
|
|
XX
|
de Corpore vitiatis ordinandis vel non, 7 |
0144 |
|
|
|
|
|
XXI
|
de Bigamis
non ordinandis, 7 |
0146 |
0977 |
|
|
|
|
XXII
|
de Clericis
peregrinis, 4 |
0148 |
|
|
|
|
|
XXIII
|
de Officio
archidiaconi, 10 |
0149 |
|
|
|
|
|
XXIV
|
de Officio
archipresbyteri, 4 |
0153 |
|
|
|
|
|
XXV
|
de Officio
primicerii, 1 |
0155 |
|
|
|
|
|
XXVI
|
de Officio
sacristae, 1 |
0155 |
|
|
|
|
|
XXVII
|
de Officio
Custodis, 2 |
0155 |
|
|
|
1242 |
|
XXVIII
|
de Officio
vicarii, 6 |
0156 |
0978 |
1140 |
|
|
|
XXIX
|
de Officio et potestate iudicis delegati, 43 |
0158 |
0978 |
1140 |
|
1243 |
|
XXX
|
de Officio
legati, 10 |
0183 |
0983 |
|
|
|
|
XXXI
|
de Officio
iudicis ordinarii, 20 |
0186 |
0985 |
1140 |
|
1243 |
|
XXXII
|
de Officio
iudicis, 2 |
0194 |
|
|
|
|
|
XXXIII
|
de Maioritate
et obedientia, 17 |
0195 |
0990 |
|
1206 |
1245 |
|
XXXIV
|
de Treuga et
pace, 2 |
0203 |
|
|
|
1247 |
|
XXXV
|
de Pactis, 8 |
0203 |
0990 |
|
|
|
|
XXXVI
|
de
Transactionibus, 11 |
0206 |
|
|
|
|
|
XXXVII
|
de Postulando,
3 |
0210 |
|
|
|
|
|
XXXVIII
|
de
Procuratoribus, 15 |
0211 |
0991 |
1141 |
|
|
|
XXXIX
|
de Syndico, 1 |
0218 |
|
|
|
|
|
XL
|
de His, quae vi metusve causa fiunt, 7 |
0218 |
0993 |
|
|
|
|
XLI
|
de in
Integrum restitutione, 10 |
0222 |
0993 |
1142 |
|
|
|
XLII
|
de Alienatione iudicii mutandi causa facta, 2 |
0229 |
|
|
|
|
|
XLIII
|
de Arbitris,
14 |
0230 |
0994 |
|
|
|
Liber II (Iudicium)
|
I
|
de Iudiciis,
21 |
0239 |
0995 |
1143 |
|
1251 |
|
II
|
de Foro
competenti, 20 |
0248 |
0996 |
1144 |
|
|
|
III
|
de Libelli
oblatione, 3 |
0255 |
|
|
|
|
|
IV
|
de Mutuis
petitionibus, 1 |
0256 |
|
|
|
|
|
V
|
de Litis
contestatione, 1 |
0257 |
0997 |
|
|
|
|
VI
|
Ut lite non contestata non procedatur ad testium
receptionem
vel ad sententiam diffinitivam, 5
|
0258 |
|
|
|
|
|
VII
|
de Iuramento
calumniae, 7 |
0265 |
0998 |
|
|
|
|
VIII
|
de
Dilationibus, 4 |
0268 |
|
|
|
1254 |
|
IX
|
de Feriis, 5 |
0270 |
|
|
|
|
|
X
|
de Ordine
cognitionum, 4 |
0273 |
|
|
|
|
|
XI
|
de Plus
petitionibus, 1 |
0275 |
|
|
|
|
|
X
|
de Causa possessionis et proprietatis, 8 |
0275 |
|
1145 |
|
|
|
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