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Decretum Gelasianum A sixth-century Latin manuscript usually attributed to Pope Gelasius I in ad 492–96 (though it is alternately attributed to Pope Damasus and Pope Hormisdas; Metzger, Canon, 188). The five-part document includes lists of:

• Old and New Testament books accepted by the church

• sixty-two “apocryphal” (rejected) works (including the Gospel of Bartholomew, Letters of Christ and Abgar, and the Acts of Philip)

• thirty-five “heretical” authors (including Montanus and Marcion)

The list may have been generated outside of Rome and privately, instead of by the pope, and only later attributed to him; this point is debated (Hahneman, Muratorian Fragment, 160; von Dobschutz, Das Decretum Gelasianum as cited in Metzger, Canon, 188).

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