Collections of Ancient Canons - From The Earliest To The Apocryphal Collections - Italo-Latin Collections - Other Collections

Other Collections

Despite the popularity of Dionysius Exiguus, which caused the previous compilations to be disused, several of them were preserved, as also were some other contemporary collections. Suffice it to mention the collection known as the "Chieti" or "Vaticana Reginæ", through which a very old and distinct version of the decrees of the Council of Nicæa has reached us.

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