COMPILATIONES (QUINQUE) ANTIQUAE.— By the name of Q. c. a. are usually designated the five most important of the numerous (about sixty are known) collections of canonical sources compiled after Gratian’s *Decretum* (v.) and before Gregory IX (v. CORPUS IURIS CANONICI).
The first (also titled *Breviarium extravagantium*) is a private work by Bernardo da Pavia (v. BALBI BERNARDO), almost certainly composed in 1191. It contains papal decrees, arranged in titles and distributed into five books, the contents of which were systematically indicated by the schools with the hexameter: *iudex, iudicium, clerus, connubia, crimen*. This arrangement of material, introduced by Bernardo, remained constant in later ancient compilations and in the great canonical collections of the 13th–14th centuries, as well as in the works of the decretalists and almost all canonists up to the 19th century.
The second (chronologically third), was made by Giovanni di Galles shortly after 1210; it contains decrees of Clement III and Celestine III, along with some older ones.
The third (chronologically second) COLLEVACINO, PIETRO (v.) at the order of Innocent III, who promulgated it in 1210 as an authentic collection (v. COLLECTIONS CANONIQUES): it contains decrees from the first twelve years of Innocent III’s pontificate (1198–1210).
The fourth, perhaps the work of Alano Anglico or Giovanni Teutonico, contains decrees from the final years of Innocent III’s pontificate (1210–16) and the canons of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), and was written around 1217. It is uncertain whether it ever had the status of an authentic collection.
The fifth is a collection of decrees of Honorius III, compiled at the pope’s own order and promulgated by him as an authentic collection on 2 May 1226.