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From the Collection of Decrees, Of the Supreme Pontiffs, the Greatest Part of Which Is Ascribed to Alexander III; Which Collection Therefore Is Usually Subjoined, after the Manner of an Appendix, to the Third Lateran Council

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It is a collection of an unknown author, made, as Mansi probably judges, in the age of Innocent III (cf. Mansi in Baluzius's Miscellanies, Tom. III, p. 367), which already in the year 1212 was in use. Cf. Hefele, op. cit., sec. 646. We shall bring forward only certain principal chapters.

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