decretum
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Decretum Universitatis Parisiensis super gorgiasitate muliercularum ad placitum.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Gratian completed the Decretum about 1151, and probably survived some years, but I have not met with the date of his death.
All that was required was a copy of the text-book,—Gratian's Decretum, the Sentences, a treatise of Aristotle, or a medical book.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey
Among all these the Decretum of Gratian was the great innovation which first marked out Canon Law as a distinct field of learning, separate from both Theology and Roman Law.
From Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities by Norton, Arthur Orlo
The earliest university text-book in Canon Law—the "Decretum" of Gratian—adopted this method, with some modifications.
From Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities by Norton, Arthur Orlo
