LEX ROMANA CANONICE COMPTA. - A collection of canonical and Roman texts, contained in cod. Paris. 12448, tenth century. It is composed of decretals, canons of councils, texts from the Registrum of Gregorio I, and the Commonitorium of this Pontiff. The Roman texts forming part of it are drawn from the Justinianic Institutes, the Code, and the Epitome Iuliani, together with the oldest scholia on Giuliano.
The sanctio pragmatica pro petitione Vigilii is cited therein. It also contains a section derived from Lotario’s Capitulare italicum of 825. The Roman texts cited bear an indication of their source; for the Code the wording recurs: ex libro codicum. The collection is furnished with glosses. The chapters deal successively with clerics (1-168), laymen (169-308), and penal discipline in ecclesiastical matters (309-24). The content and purpose of the work are revealed by the incipit of the collection, which reads: « Incipiunt cum sententiis suis Capitula Romanae legis ad canones pertinentia ».
The homeland of the collection, also in view of its content, is held by many to be Ravenna, and its date is to be assigned to the ninth century, also because of its relation to the Collectio Anselmo dicata; but the hypothesis has recently been advanced that the place of compilation was Pavia, or at any rate a city in Lombardy.