COMPILATIONES (QUINQUE) ANTI-QUAE. - Under the name Q. c. a. it is customary to designate 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 TURIS CANONICI).

The first (also entitled Breviarium extravagantium) is a private work of Bernard of Pavia (v. BALBI BERNARDO), made almost certainly in 1191. It contains decretals of pontiffs, grouped into titles, distributed in turn into five books, the content of which was neatly indicated by the school with the hexameter: iudex, iudicium, clerus, connubia, crimen. This distribution of the material, introduced by Bernard, thereafter remained constant in the other ancient compilations and in the great canonical collections of the 13th-14th centuries, as well as in the works of the decretalists and of almost all canonists down to the 19th century.

The second (chronologically the third) was made by John of Wales, shortly after 1210: it contains decretals of Clement III and of Celestine III, besides some more ancient one.

The third (chronologically the second) was drawn up by Pietro Collevacino (v.) by order of Innocent III, who promulgated it in 1210 as an authentic collection (v. COLLEZIONI CANONICHE): it contains decretals of the first 12 years of the pontificate of Innocent III (1198-1210).

The fourth, perhaps the work of Alanus Anglicus or of John the Teuton, contains decretals of the last years of the pontificate of Innocent III (1210-16) and the canons of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), and was written around 1217. It is not known whether or not it had the value of an authentic collection.

The fifth is a collection of decretals of Honorius III, made by order of the same Pontiff, who promulgated it as an authentic collection on 2 May 1226.

Bibliography4 works

BIBL.: E. Friedberg, Q. c. a. necnon collectio canonum Lipsienis, Leipzig 1882; id., Die Canones-Sammlungen zwischen Gratian und Bernhard von Pavia, ibid. 1897; S. Kuttner, Repertorium der Kanonistik, I, Vatican City 1937, pp. 322-85 and passim; A. Van Hove, Prolegomena, 2nd ed. Malines-Rome 1945, pp. 355-357 (and bibliography cited there).

Pio Ciprotti

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