Bullarium

Bullarium is a term commonly applied to a collection of papal bulls and other analogous documents, whether the scope of the collection be general in character, or limited to the bulls connected to any particular order, or institution, or locality.

Bullaria were generally intended to render assistance to canonists by bringing within their reach papal enactments which either had been overlooked by the compilers of the "corpus" or which had been issued subsequently to the latest decrees included in it. As such, they frequently excluded papal pronouncements which had already been incorporated into the text of canon law. In general, the collections were not complete, and the selection of canons to include depended on the choice of the editor.