[Modus legendi abbreviaturas]

the aforesaid five, even filling the defect of various emerging cases not comprehended in the others. And the constitutions of the book of the Sext were promulgated in the year from the nativity 1298, on the Nones of March, in the fourth year of the pontificate of Pope Boniface VIII.

The Sext is divided in the same manner into five partial books, just as the Decretals, and each of these books into titles, and these by chapters, etc., sections, as above, although in the Sext there are not as many titles as in the Decretals, nor as many chapters in the titles. But where something was lacking regarding a case not fully covered in the Decretals, that is placed in the Sext.

Indeed, examples must now be taken from the book of the Sext where it is cited thus: "On constitutions", [chapter] "Ut animarum", book 6; "On rescripts", Statutorum, section "Cum vero", section "Nullus", book 6. This is to be understood thus: That is, in the Sext, under the title "On rescripts", in the chapter which begins "Statutum", in the section of that chapter which begins "Cum vero", in the verse "Nullus". Just as also from the first citation on constitutions, in the chapter "Ut animarum", in book 6. And it should be known that in the Sext it is cited in the same way as in the Decretals, with this only changed: that in citing the Sext, "li. vi" (book 6) is always added at the end, because of the diversity of books. Because all the rubrics of the Sext are also in the Decretals, one must therefore add "li. vi" to the rubric after the chapter and section, so that it may be known to be in the Sext. If it is not added, the chapter cited would be sought in the Decretals, and thus it would happen to err from the omission of this addition "li. vi", because the chapter cited in the Sext would not be found in the Decretals. Many other examples can be taken, such as "On judgments", [chapter] "Mulieres", section "Ceterum", and chapter "se. li. vi."; "On the life of the clergy", [chapter] "unico.", section "in ceteris autem e. li."; "On the concession of prebends", [chapter] "Detestanda", li. vi.; "On census", [chapter] "Quanquam", e. li. Which are to be explained in their own way as above. And so much for the third book.

On the edition of the Clementines

The fourth book of canon law, which is called the Clementines (subaudition: Constitutions), was conceived and edited by Pope Clement V, in the year of our Lord 1311, in the Council of Vienne, which lasted only six months. But Clement himself, prevented by death, did not bring it to the public. But after him, Pope John XXII completed it, corrected it, changed it in some places, and demanded its execution. These constitutions, thus collected, are called the Clementines, from Clement V. And they were promulgated in the year of our Lord 1327, on the 4th of the Kalends of November. Concerning which see the gloss in the preface of the Clementines, under the word "November" and under the word "pontificate". And according to Jo[hannes] An[dreae] in the preface of this book: They are wrong who cite it as the "seventh book". Because the said constitutions are not counted under the name of a book, but they ought to be titled "Clementines", as was said above.