German medievalist Johannes Fried draws a distinction between the "Donation of Constantine" and an earlier, also forged version, the "Constitutum Constantini", which was included in the collection of forged documents, the False Decretals, compiled in the later half of the ninth century. Fried argues the "Donation" is a later expansion of the much shorter "Constitutum". Christopher B. Coleman understands the mention in the "Constitutum" of a donation of "the western regions" to refer to the regions of Lombardia, Veneto, and Istria.