Pseudoisidore

„Pseudoisidore“ is the common short hand for a group of collections of both genuine and forged materials produced in the ninth century. Often, it refers to the most famous of these collections, the False Decretals, itself a composite work of genuine, falsified, and forged decretals, conciliar canons, and some other materials.

The Pseudoisidorian collections are closely interrelated, and modern scholarship still disagrees about the direction of dependency for some of them. The influence of the collections varies, and it took some time before the material was integrated in other canonical collections; but in the long run, they had a massive impact on Western canon law well into modern times.

The following works were produced by the Pseudoisidorian forgers:

• The Collectio Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis
• The Capitula Angilramni
• Benedictus Levita, Collectio capitularium
• Abbreviatio Ansegisi et Benedicti Levitae
• Pseudoisidore, False Decretals
  • Recension A1
  • Recension A2 (the common short form)
  • Recension A/B
  • Recension B
  • Recension C
  • The Cluny recension
• Excerptiones de gestis Chalcedonensis concilii
• Collectio Danieliana