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The Church Fathers · c. 546
Abridgement of the Canons
Breviatio Canonum
Ferrandus of Carthage · d. c. 546
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What it is
Two hundred and thirty-two canons drawn from Greek and African councils and rearranged by subject rather than by council.
Why it lasted
The first canon law collection organised thematically — the arrangement every later handbook adopted.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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