Code of Law — Gratian

The Decretum of Gratian (Concordia discordantium canonum)

Promulgated 1140. Our own English translation, made from Friedberg’s edition of the Corpus Iuris Canonici (vol. I, the Decretum, Leipzig, 1879), with Friedberg’s Latin beside it; under each canon its column in Friedberg, linked to the page image. Download: PDF (complete) · PDF (Latin & English) · EPUB

Gratian’s Concordance of Discordant Canons (c. 1140), the first part of the Corpus Iuris Canonici: 101 Distinctions on law and the clergy, 36 Causae with their Questions — among them the Treatise on Penance — and the five Distinctions on Consecration, with Gratian’s own reasoning between the canons. Cited by the manuals as “c. 8, C. 23, q. 5” or “c. 6, D. 30”. Every canon in English with its Latin one click away and its column in Friedberg’s edition.

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