lections of the
_Corpus juris_. By a bull of the 28th of December 1210 Innocent III.
sent to the university of Bologna an authentic collection of the
decretals issued during the first twelve years of his pontificate; this
collection he had caused to be drawn up by his notary, Petrus
Collivacinus of Benevento, his object being to supersede the collections
in circulation, which were incomplete and to a certain extent spurious.
This was the _Compilatio tertia_; for soon after, Joannes Galensis (John
of Wales) collected the decretals published between the collection of
Bernard of Pavia and the pontificate of Innocent III.; and this, though
of later date, became known as the _Compilatio secunda_. The _quarta_,
the author of which is unknown, contained the decretals of the last six
years of Innocent III., and the important decrees of the Lateran council
of 1215. Finally, in 1226, Honorius III. made an official presentation
to Bologna of his own decretals, this forming the _Compilatio quinta_.

Decretals of Gregory IX.

The result of all these supplements to Gratian's work, apart from the
inconvenience caused by their being so scattered, was the accumulation
of a mass of material almost as considerable as the _Decretum_ itself,
from which they tended to split off and form an independent whole,
embodying as they did the latest state of the law. From 1230 Gregory IX.
wished to remedy this condition of affairs, and gave to his
penitentionary, the Dominican Raymond of Pennaforte, the task of
condensing the five compilations in use into a single collection, freed
from useless and redundant documents. The work was finished in 1234, and
was at once sent by the pope to Bologna with the bull _Rex pacificus_,
declaring it to be official. Raymond adopts Bernard of Pavia's division
into five books and into titles; in each title he arranges the decretals
in chronological order, cutting out those which merely repeat one
another and the less germane parts of those which he preserves; but
these _partes decisae_, indicated by the words "_et infra_" or "_et j,_"
are none the less very useful and have been printed in recent editions.
Raymond does not attempt any original work; to the texts already
included in the _Quinque compilationes_, he adds only nine decretals of
Innocent III. and 196 chapters of Gregory IX. This first official code
was the basis of the second part of the _Corpus juris canonici_. The
collection of Gregory IX. is cited