Clementines II

A part of the canon law prepared by pope Clement V (1305-1314), and consisting of the decrees issued by the Council of Vienna (1311-1312), as well as his own constitutions. This collection was to follow the five books of decretals collected by Gregory IX in 1234, and the liber sixtus prepared in 1298 by Boniface VIII, under the name of Liber septimus; it is, however, more commonly known under the name of Clementines. Like the two previous collections, it is divided into five books — Judex, Judicium, Clerus, Connubia, Crimen; and even the series of titles and the headings fully correspond with those of the collection of Gregory IX. Clement made his collection known to the consistory of cardinals in 1313, and in the following year sent it to the University of Orleans. His successor, John XXII, sent it also to the universities of Paris and Bologna. The first glossa (commentary) to it was written about 1326 by Joannes Andreae, and it soon obtained the authority of a glossa ordinaria. It was revised by cardinal Zabarella († 1417). The first editions of the Clementines were published at Mainz in 1460, 1467, and 1471. See Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lex. 2, 628; Hase, Ch. Hist. § 286. SEE CANON LAW.