Umm al-Fadl's traditions of the Prophet appear in all canonical collections of hadiths.

The name has been given also to a canonical collection officially known as "Decretales Clementis Papæ VIII".

Syntagma Canonum is a canonical collection made in 1335 by Matthew Blastares, a Greek monk about whose life nothing certain is known.

These are the canonical collections of a later date than the "Decretum" of Gratian (about 1150).

Like the former canonical collections, the Decretals of Gregory IX were soon glossed.

Among other works attributed (though with some uncertainty) to Symeon are a Chronicle, a canonical collection, some letters and poems, and other writings of less importance.

Every one of the secret texts which gnostic groups revered was omitted from the canonical collection, and branded as heretical by those who called themselves orthodox Christians.

These texts, with the translations of the Eastern councils, passed into the Western canonical collections.

Nevertheless the influence of these apocryphal works on other canonical collections was restricted.

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