Syntagma Canonum
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Syntagma Canonum is a canon law collection made in 1335 by Matthew Blastares, a Greek monk about whose life nothing certain is known.
The collector aimed at reducing canon law to a handier and more accessible form than it appeared in the
ecclesiastical law
. Some titles however are purely ecclesiastical, others purely civil.
The church ordinances are quoted from previous collections, especially from the
Emperor Dušan appended to his code of laws (1349). From this the purely ecclesiastical enactments were excluded, but the civil law contained in the Syntagma was reproduced whenever adaptable to the social condition of the people. In the sixteenth century the Syntagma Canonum was translated into Bulgarian; in the seventeenth century into Russian
.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Syntagma Canonum". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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