EXCERPTA BOBIENSIA. - This is the name given to the collection found in a manuscript from Bobbio (present cod. Ambros. G 58 sup. tenth/eleventh century), containing, in addition to Roman texts (drawn from the Justinian sources, Code and Novels, the latter according to the version of the Epitome Italiani), also texts of canon law. The title of the collection, Excerpta ex libro legum novellarum et codicis ad episcopos et clerum pertinentia, which appears written in the manuscript by a fifteenth-century hand, is, according to Maassen and Conrat, of doubtful authenticity.
The collection, consisting of 86 chapters, belongs either to the ninth or to the beginning of the tenth century. It contains, among other things, provisions concerning the ordination of bishops, their obligation of residence, the procedural privileges of bishops, recognition of the canons of the first four ecumenical councils, recognition of the jurisdictional power of bishops, metropolitans, and patriarchs, and the privileges of clerics and churches.