Epistolae decretales

Title	Epistolae decretales
Key	?
Wikidata Item no.	Q135501962
Century	saec. V
Place of origin	Rome?
European region of origin	Central Italy
Author	Christof Rolker
No. of manuscripts	none

There are two collections of decretal letters from the time of Leo I, the Canones urbicani (compiled probably in Gaul) and the Epistolae decretales (compiled in Rome). Both are lost; their content and structure can only be inferred from later collections. On this basis, scholar assume the Canones urbanici contained five papal letters, two from Innocent (JK 293, 303), one from Zosimus (JK 339), and two from Celestine (JK 369 and 371).

Literature

Maassen, Geschichte p. 483 (as part of the Collectio Frisingensis I).- Jasper, Letters p. 25.

Note that Kéry, Collections does not deal with this collection.