36. The ancient Codex Regularum, collected by Benedict
Anianinus, the reformer of the monks in the beginning of the
ninth century, and published in the seventeenth by Lucas
Holstenius, contains thirty different rules for men and
women. Of these seven were composed in Egypt, one in the
East one in Cappadocia, one in Italy, one in Africa, four in
Spain, eight in Gaul or France, and one in England.