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  Notitia Dignitatum
Dignitatum et administrationum tam civilium quam militarum, an official list of civil and military offices in the western empire, which was of service to the primicerius notariorum occidentis (imperial records office of the West), which kept records of all imperial administrative affairs.
After 428, the Notitia probably gathered dust in a ‘pigeon-hole’ in the office of the magister pededitum praesentalis, a post that grew in political significance under Theodoric in the sixth century, until the Carolingians took the city.
Notitia Dignitatum; accedunt Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae et latercula provinciarum; ed.
www.vortigernstudies.org.uk /artsou/notitia.htm   (1611 words)

  
 Notitia Dignitatum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Notitia Dignitatum is a unique document of the Roman imperial chanceries.
The Notitia derives its name from the description at the beginning of the manuscripts: "Notitia dignitatum omnium tam civilium quam militarium utriusque imperii occidentis orientisque.
ultima redactio notitiae dignitatum a primis decenniis saeculi quinti provenit.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Notitia_Dignitatum   (494 words)

  
 Notitia Dignitatum
The "Notitia", preserved as it is in an incomplete condition, is partly an abstract, partly an exact transcript of this official register.
Accedunt Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae et Laterculi provinciarum" (Berlin, 1876).
SEECK, Quaestiones de Notitia dignitatum (Berlin, 1872); IDEM, Die Zeit des Vegetius in Hermes, XI (Berlin, 1876), 77 sqq.; IDEM, Zur Kritik der Notitia dignitatum in Hermes, IX (1875), 217 sqq.; STEFFENHAGEN, Der Gottorfer Codex der Notitia dignitatum in Hermes, XIX (1884), 458 sqq.; MOMMSEN, Die Conscriptionsordnung der rom.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/n/notitia_dignitatum.html   (412 words)

  
 Late Roman Shield Patterns and the Notitia Dignitatum
Notitia Dignitatum, the "List of Offices" or better, the "Register of Dignitaries" include pictures showing the shield patterns of hundreds of units in the Roman army as it existed at the start of the 5th century AD.
It has been argued the the patterns shown in the surviving copies of the Notitia are wholesale fabrications of a medieval copiest; this view has not found widespread acceptance because because the patterns shown are in gneneral terms similar in style to other sources illustrating late Roman shields, and in some cases, essentially identical.
The document that is the Notitia Dignitatum is divided into halves pertaining to the western and the eastern portions of the Roman empire (or rather, eastern and western portions; the Romans not adhering to the same worldview us us).
www.ne.jp /asahi/luke/ueda-sarson/NotitiaPatterns.html   (840 words)

  
 Notitia Dignitatum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Late Roman Shield Patterns and the Notitia Dignitatum.
The Notitia Dignitatum is public domain, and my edition, are free for all to use.
Notitia dignitatum : accedunt Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae et Laterculi provinciarum /
www.pvv.ntnu.no /~halsteis/notitia.htm   (514 words)

  
 The "Yin-Yang" among the Insignia of the Roman Empire?
The Notitia Dignitatum is an ancient text of unquestionable importance: it may be defined as a "list of charges" or "list of official functions" at the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth century AD.
The Notitia Dignitatum, according to Berger, is a document that «tries to perpetuate the imperial Roman heritage in a time when it maintained very little of the previous force or prestige [...].
With the Notitia Dignitatum we are instead in the fourth or fifth century AD, therefore from the iconographic point of view, almost seven hundred years earlier than the date of its appearance in China.
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 Later Imperial Roman Shield Patterns
The surviving copies of the Notitia Dignitatum, the "List of Offices" or better, the "Register of Dignitaries" (but see here), illustrate patterns for a large number of Roman military units dating to approximately 400 AD.
By the time of the Notitia, we can see that large units like the old legions had been split into a number of smaller fragments, each with its own (seemingly unrelated?) shield pattern, so at some stage the old units were given new shield patterns.
The Notitia only records the shield patterns of units in the field armies, so those units purely limited to garrison roles - including the old cohorts dating back to the 3rd century or before - are missing.
www.ne.jp /asahi/luke/ueda-sarson/MIR-Shields.html   (1274 words)

  
 SULLE ORIGINI DELLA NOTITIA DIGNITATUM
La Notitia in nessun caso indica il nome dei dignitari, che avrebbero versato al primicerio il compenso per l'emissione del codicillo d'investitura, né sussiste la benché minima prova dell'esistenza di un registro globale, comune alle due parti dell'Impero e diverso dai singoli laterculi, che sarebbe stato difficilissimo tenere.
Secondo BERGER, The Insignia of the Notitia Dignitatum, 1981, nn.
23 L'inaffidabilità degli emblemi degli scudi é stata rilevata da GRIGG, Inconsistency and lassitude: the shield emblems of the Notitia Dignitatum, JRS, 73, 1983, pp.
www.unipa.it /dipstdir/pub/purpura/notitia_dignitatum.htm   (4374 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: Notitia Dignitatum (Register of Dignitaries), c. 400
From William Fairley, Notitia Dignitatum or Register of Dignitaries, in Translations and Reprints from Original Sources of European History, Vol.
The NOTITIA DIGNITATUM is an official register of all the offices, other than municipal, which existed in the Roman Empire.
He infers that the Notitia was drawn up as early as the time of Valens, and corrected from year to year here and there, while left in many parts unchanged; and that, therefore, does not give the exact military status at any one time.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/notitiadignitatum.html   (5642 words)

  
 Early Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Notitia Dignitatum is a directory of the civil and military administration of the Roman Empire, and was compiled between 395 and 430 CE.
The emblem of the Thebaei (see it at Luke's site) is particularly intriguing as it is powerfully reminiscent of a Sung dynasty version of the Taiji Tu (a version little known in the West but hugely influential in China), based on a pair of three-line figures, one representing fire, and the other water.
An article published in 1983 "Inconsistency and Lassitude: The Shield Emblems of the Notitia Dignitatum" (The Journal of Roman Studies; Volume LXXIII) cautions against accepting the Notitia at face value.
www.wavewrights.com /pub/eh_oracle/site/origins/notitia.html   (654 words)

  
 Notitia Dignitatum
For Britain, the Notitia lists several military commands (the dux Britanniarum, the comes litoris Saxonici per Britannias and the comes Britanniarum), the governors of the five British provinces and the staff of the vicarius in London.
Army units The problem with this section of the Notitia is that, apart from being incomplete (we assume that the part concerning Wales is lost), it also seems extremely outdated, for most of the units listed for the wall forts are seemingly anachronistic third century cohortes and alae.
In the light of the disaster in 367 and the following desertions, most historians think it very unlikely that all units returned unchanged; instead the consensus is that the list was not updated after the fourth century and kept only for administrative purposes.
www.vortigernstudies.org.uk /artsou/notitialist.htm   (1139 words)

  
 Notitia
Listed below are the commands and forces in the notitia Dignitatum as being under the command of the dux britannicarum, or Duke of the Provinces of Britain, at least in the late 4th century, early 5th century AD.
Since the notitia is a complex document which has undergone a great many changes through history, there are a number of entries that are plainly wrong or confused.
Unfortunately it does not give a complete picture of forces in the north at this time, as there is not a perfect match between the archaological evidence for the occupation of forts with the notitia evidence.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/8049/notitia.html   (547 words)

  
 Elfinspell: c. 400 A.D., Notitia Dignatatum: Excerpts Emperor Hadrian Builds The Great Wall in Britain, from the ...
The Notitia Dignitatum, or list of officials of the Roman Empire, a document drawn up about A. 400, mentions among the several thousand offices which it names a considerable number which were established in Britain.
The names and characters of the offices seem to have been exactly the same there as in Gaul, Spain, Italy, Africa, Greece, and other parts of the Empire, and bring out with clearness the fact that Britain was an integral part of the Roman dominions.
Britain Under the Count of the Sacred Bounties are the accountant of the general tax of the Britons, the prefect of the storehouses at London, the procurator of the weaving house at Winchester in Britain.
www.elfinspell.com /PrimarySourceNotitia.html   (354 words)

  
 Legio II Iulia Alpina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This unit is mentioned in the late-antique text known as Notitia Dignitatum.
The author of the Notitia states that it belonged to the forces of the Illyrian army.
Due to the fact that we have only one source mentioning this unit, the founder of the legion is not known.
www.livius.org /le-lh/legio/ii_iulia_alpina.html   (142 words)

  
 The Cnh or Notitia Dignitatum: Internet Web Sites
Ross, K.L. The Eastern Provinces of the Notitia Dignitatum (map).
Ross, K.L. The Western Provinces of the Notitia Dignitatum (map).
Tkachenko, A. A., 'Notitia dignitatum' kak istochni pozdneantichnoy emblematike' (Mir Istorii, 5.2001).
members.ozemail.com.au /~igmaier/webnot02.htm   (488 words)

  
 » Blog Archive » The so-called Notitia Dignitatum “list of official functions”
You can find a quick description of what Notitia Dignitatum is on wikipedia, and a more accurate here and here.
I think that Matricula de tributos is a matrix, a sort of “due register”, while Notitia Dignitatum has a tree structure (military ranks 1 2, with insigna) mixed with geographical informations (but there are also some largitiones pages).
In Bodleian Library there are filmstrips of both codex Mendoza and od Notitia Dignitatum.
www.progetto-exp.org /?p=38   (257 words)

  
 Athena Review 1,2: Saxon Shore Forts
The Saxon Shore Forts were built by the Romans in the late 3rd century AD along the southeast coast of Britain to guard against increasing invasion and piracy by Germanic tribes including the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
The Notitia records that the military commander known as the Count of the Saxon Shore controlled nine forts, the names of which are given as well as the units garrisoned in each.
The Notitia Dignitatum: Our source for the fort names, the Notitia Dignitatum, is a late Roman collection of administrative information, roughly accurate for 395-430 AD.
www.athenapub.com /saxshor1.htm   (554 words)

  
 The Origin of the Cult of St. Maurice
It has already been argued that the Thebaei of the legend are to be identified with the historical Thebaei of the Notitia Dignitatum.
However the exact date of the Notitia Dignitatum is greatly disputed.
Amendments were made to that part of it which deals with the Western Empire as late as 421, and on its evidence alone it is not unreasonable to question whether the Thebaei were stationed in Italy at the time of Theodore c.
www.ucc.ie /milmart/maurorig.html   (5571 words)

  
 Notitia Dignitatum - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
La Notitia Dignitatum es un documento único de la cancillería imperial romana.
La Notitia deriva su nombre de la descripción inicial de los manuscritos: "Notitia dignitatum omnium tam civilium quam militarium utriusque imperii occidentis orientisque.
La última edición de la notitia dignitatum corresponde a la primera década del siglo V").
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Notitia_Dignitatum   (334 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "notitia dignitatum": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Appendix 5 The frontier units according to the notitia dignitatum `The List (notitia) of all high offices (dignitatum), both civil and military, in the Eastern (Oriens) and Western (...
John Mann, "The Notitia Dignitatum-Dating and Survival," Britannia zz (1991): 215-219; Werner Seibt, "Wurde die notitia dignitatum 408 von Stilicho in Auftrag gegeben?" Mitteilungen des...
Dux Mogontiacensis und die Notitia Dignitatum: Eine Studie zur Spatantiken Grenzverteidigung.
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 The Roman Army in Britain: Late Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The British section of the Notitia Dignitatum (a list of Roman civil and military posts, originating from c.400) records the Comes Britanniarum as commanding six cavalry and three infantry units of the comitatus.
It is possible the Classis Britannica may have been split into smaller units attached to the coastal forts and operating, as a fighting/reconnaissance force, in concert with the fort's garrison.
Presumably the Classis Anderetiana, recorded in the Notitia Dignitatum as being based at Paris but originating at Anderida (Pevensey), was such a unit.
www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk /armyframe2.htm   (433 words)

  
 Late Roman (West) - DBA 77a
His military establishment is recorded in detail in the Notitia Dignitatum.
The Notitia Dignitatum records one unit of catapult operators (Ballistarii) stationed at Bontobrica near Mainz on the Rhine frontier.
You need to look at the Notitia dignitatum (parts of which are reproduced in WRG/Phil Barkers 'Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome' or something lie that.
www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/dba77a.html   (2064 words)

  
 Countrybookshop.co.uk - Dux Mogontiacensis und die Notitia Dignitatum, Der
The most important source for the situation on the Upper Rhine in Late Classical Antiquity is to be found in the Notitia Dignitatum, a register of all the offices and honours of the Late Roman Empire.
In it, the author succeeds in re-determining the genesis and purpose of the Notitia.
At the same time, this study is the first to meld the regionally-oriented German archaeological research on the Rhine regions in Late Classical Antiquity with studies on the Notitia working in the English-speaking tradition.
www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=311018835X   (231 words)

  
 Late Roman Buckles in Britain
The Notitia Dignitatum is a document that records among other things the shield symbols of Roman military units across the Empire.
The Notitia Dignitatum is probably of early 5th century date, but the Arch of Constantine, built in 315, shows a similar shield design, suggesting that if the shields and buckles are linked, the latter derive from the former rather than the other way round.
Incidentally, a significant proportion of the units bearing the twin-headed symbols on their shields, have, judging by their names, links with north-west Europe, from where Constantine drew the army that fought with him at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
www.netmarshall.co.uk /dolphin_buckles.htm   (2422 words)

  
 BGreek: Re: The Duty to Translate: Was: Re: Notitia Dignitatum
BGreek: Re: The Duty to Translate: Was: Re: Notitia Dignitatum
Re: The Duty to Translate: Was: Re: Notitia Dignitatum
Previous message: Carl W. Conrad: "Re: The Duty to Translate: Was: Re: Notitia Dignitatum"
www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/test-archives/html4/1998-12/27272.html   (726 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.08.25
Veränderungen in der Notitia Dignitatum vorgenommen worden sind.
Die Ungewissheit darüber, was die Notitia Dignitatum eigentlich ist und wie sie in ihren einzelnen Bestandteilen zusammengestellt worden ist, ist einfach (noch) zu gross, als dass man endgültige Antworten auf diese quaestiones vexatae geben könnte.
In dieser Hinsicht kann Scharfs Buch durchaus als eine -- wenn auch nicht eben leicht lesbare -- Einführung in alle die Notitia Dignitatum betreffenden Fragen dienen; vgl.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2006/2006-08-25.html   (1221 words)

  
 Northvegr - Commentary To the Germanic Laws and Medieval Documents
In the Notitia dignitatum there is a reference to exculcatores, excultatores, exculeatores Brittaniciani, that is, to British scouts.
The form exculeatores of the Notitia dignitatum must have arisen from a shorter form culeatores, and this is actually found in Welsh and Cornish, that is, in British, until the present day.
(ex)culcator, which the Notitia dignitatum distinctly associates with the Britons.
www.northvegr.org /lore/germaniclaw/003.php   (2650 words)

  
 LEG. VII GEMINA FELIX
I have searched through the Notitia Dignitatum for the right units to use but beyond that I really have no ideas.
The notitia is probably the best info we have.
Several of these units mentioned in the Notitia are derived from (parts of) Leg.
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 PYTHEAS
The Notitia Dignitatum which was compiled under the reign of the emperors Arcadius and Honorius, presents the civil and military administration of the Roman Empire divided into western and eastern parts in AD 395.
The editio princeps of the Notitia Dignitatum printed on hand-made paper and decorated with woodcuts was produced in 1552 at the workshop of Hieronymus Frobenius in Bazel and can be found today in the collection of the Smidt Museum in Szombathely.
Thanks to Pytheas Publishing House this rare book will be available for the first time in a colourful facsimile edition.
www.pytheas.hu /ereszletes8.htm   (186 words)

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