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Liber Extra

Type Object Region Rome Time 1230–1917

The Liber Extra, or Decretals of Gregory IX, compiled by Dominican Raymond of Peñafort and issued in 1234, systematized papal decrees after Gratian a…

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  1. 1230–1234Rome · RomeRaymond, working from the Compilatio antiqua, cut contradictions and redundancies, added new decretals of Innocent III and Gregory IX, and produced a collection for uniform citation throughout the Church.
  2. 1234Rome · RomeGregory IX declared in Rex pacificus that this collection was the only authorized decretal compilation for schools and courts; post-Gratian decrees not included lost their citation force in principle.
  3. 1234–1917Rome and European universities · Western EuropeTogether with Gratian's Decretum, the collection formed the main body of the Corpus Juris Canonici; its gloss tradition spread across European universities until replaced by the unified code of 1917.

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