The Institutio consists of a prologue, a collection of texts from church fathers, and the rule itself.
[1] Similar to Chrodegang's Rule (itself at times called the Regula canonicorum), it differed on certain points.
It was, for instance, more insistent on canons living a common life, eating and sleeping together.
Yet canons were allowed to hold private property, and, with their bishop's permission, even have their own houses.
These reforms helped to lead to the creation of the various forms of the Augustinian Rule.