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Notitia dignitatum et administrationum omnium tam ciuilium quam militarium in partibus orientis et occidentis

Las copias que han sobrevivido de la llamada Notitia Dignitatum, la "Lista de Dignidades " o mejor, el "Registro de los Dignatarios " romanos del Bajo Imperio, incluye descripciones mostrando la realidad de la composición de las unidades de los ejércitos romanos durante el siglo IV. Esta es actualmente la mayor fuente de información sobre la organización administrativa y militar del Bajo Imperio Romano . Esta relación ha llegado hasta hoy a través de cuatro manuscritos de los siglos XV y XVI (Oxford, París, Viena y Munich). Los cuatro son copias exactas de un manuscrito anterior (perdido a finales del XVI) que fue compuesto no más tarde del siglo XI.
La fecha exacta en la que fue escrita la Notitia ha sido objeto de debate entre los especialistas. La distribución de las unidades militares que se cita en este documento parece reflejar la situación del Imperio en el último tercio del siglo IV, antes de la batalla de Adrianópolis (378 d.C.), aunque también hay datos relativos al primer cuarto del siglo V, lo que indica que la Notitia fue objeto de correcciones y añadidos.
Esta página web da las formas de los escudos de las unidades romanas en el Bajo Imperio. Existen diversos manuscritos con estas figuras y ente ellos existen algunas diferencias. Las que se muestran aquí están tomadas de la página web de Halstein Sjølie. y provienen de la biblioteca Bodleian en el Reino Unido, según el escaneado hecho por y Nik Gaukroger. Ver también http://members.ozemail.com.au/~igmaier/notitia.htm
El texto y los nombres de la unidades del ejército que acompañan a los dibujos están tomados de la edición de Otto Seeck en 1876 , ( reimpresa en 1960) como presenta Halstein Sjolie en su web-site. Solo de algunas de la unidades mencionadas se han conservado los escudos. En particular, los de los limitanei o "tropas fronterizas" no están ilustrados , ni los de las unidades orientales de caballería y otros muchos cuerpos, tal vez porque el copista medieval no consideró interesante reproducirlos.
BIBLIOGRAFÍA:
JONES, AHM : "The Later Roman Empire, 284-602. A Social, Economic and Administrative Survey" , The John Hopkins University Press, 1986, ISBN 0-8018-3285-3 (this is the paperback edition).
BURNS, T.S. : "Barbarians within the gates of Rome" , Indiana University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-253-31288-4.
TEXTO ORIGINAL LATINO http://www.intratext.com/X/LAT0212.htm
http://www.intratext.com/Aiuto/ESL/ en español
http://www.intratext.com/y/LAT0212.HTM
Texto latino
La Notitia Dignitatum está dividida en dos partes, como el
Imperio Romano, una relativa a Oriente y otra a Occidente.. On internal evidence,
the eastern section appears to be (at least at first sight) an essentially
uniform composition dating to (or heavily revised in) ca. 395 AD, with minor
alterations perhaps dating to 5 years later; some word date almost all of it to
ca. 400 AD however. The western section seems to initially date from the same
time, and then having evidently undergone considerable revision, with some items
seemingly dating to 420 AD or even as late as 425 AD.
Thus it does not present a snap-shot picture of the Roman army, but
rather a view of many changes occuring over 30 or so years, and disentangling
these is a tricky business at best. Many of the units listed in the western
section for instance are duplicados in two (or even more) different commands. It
is difficult to say which is the 'original' posting and which is the 'latest'
one (assuming that is we are not dealing with two identically named units!). Nor
is it easy to discern if a given unit in a field army with an identical name to
a unit in a limitanei area is merely a detachment of the latter, or the unit in
its entirety was withdrawn from the frontier.
Epigraphical evidence for British units comes from the valuable Roman
Inscriptions of Britain
site and much other British information from the excellent www.roman-britain.org site. A potted history of the old legions in previous centuries can be
found at www.livius.org.
Evidence is heavily biased towards British units not least because I am an
English speaker and can't access other languages easily, but also because
British archaeological comparisons are compatively extensive.
I have compiled an alphabetical
list of all the
units mentioned in the Notitia which may help people in analysing the
distribution of units etc.
Troop type statistics and analyses are described below:
Alae
Auxilia Palatinae
Auxiliary Cohors
Auxiliary Milites
Auxiliary Pseudocomitaneses
Other Auxiliares
Balistarii
Classes
Comites
Equites Armigeri
Equites Catafractarii
Equites Dalmatae
Equites Clibanarii
Equites Dromodarii
Equites Illyriciani
Equites Indigenae
Equites Mauri
Equites Promoti
Equites Sagittarii
Equites Scutarii
Equites Stablesiani
Lanciarii
Laeti
Legiones
Limites
Gentes
Numeri Barbarcoriorum etc.
Scolae,
Singulares, Domestici and Bucellarii
Other Numeri and Cunei
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Ir al indice de la página ( en inglés) de Historia Militar Antigua de Luke Ueda-Sarson
Estas páginas contienen el texto del documento romano
llamado "Notitia Dignitatum". Se trata de una lista de los
dignatarios y sus áreas de responsabilidad durante la época conocida como Bajo
Imperio o Dominado , hacia el 400 d.C. Generalmente se considera que la
fecha para Occidente sería hacia el 420, y para el este alrededor del 400
d.C., aunque no hay unanimidad entre los estudiosos acerca de estas fechas. .
Según la página web citada, se ha hecho así porque no se encontraba el documento original en latín. La fuente usada ha sido la edición de Otto Seeck de 1876, reimpresa en 1960 aunque hay otras ediciones . La versión de Seeck contiene muchas notas a pie de página y tiene numerosos comentarios al texto, que no se ha copiado. Seeck utilizó 'u' por 'u' y 'v'. El texto aquí ofrecido ha utilizado 'u' y 'v', aunque no con toda seguridad según la autora, y se puede comprobar yendo al texto de Seeck, que hace los comentarios en latín.
La Notitia tiene también ilustraciones que no se han añadido. Los comentarios de la autora al texto van entre {}.
If you want to use this document, I would give you a couple of warnings.
I am not a historian, and have no real education in history, beyond ordinary
school. I also read no latin. I have however an interest in history, and have
read a bit, mostly on the Late Roman Army. So I know the meaning of many of the
words used in the Notitia. The words are mostly titles, and geographical names
anyway, so the Notitia doesn't tax anybody's Latin skill to my knowledge. Are
you going to do any scholarly work, I would advise to use a more scholarly
edition. But if you want to use it, you are welcome.
The navigation of the document should be easy to
follow. So:
West
Roman Empire.
East
Roman Empire.
The Notitia Dignitatum is public domain, and my edition, are free for all
to use. You can use it as much as you which, as long as you don't make money on
it, and gives information on where you found it. If you have any question,
comments etc., I can be reaches at: halstein040873@hotmail.com .
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Böcking, E., Notitia dignitatum et administrationum omnium tam ciuilium quam militarium in partibus orientis et occidentis (ad codd. mss. Monachiensium, Romani, Parisiensium ac Vindobonensis editorumque fidem recensuit tabulis ad cod. ms. Biblioth. Reg. Palatin. Monachiens. depictis commentariis indicique illustrauit Eduardus Böcking). (Bonnae, impensis Adolphi Marci, ab A. 1839 usque ad A. 1853). Vol.1 (1839), Vol.2 (1849), Vol.3 (1850), Vol.4 (1853). |
Seeck, O., Notitia Dignitatum accedunt Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae et Latercula prouinciarum (Berlin, 1876). (Reimpression Frankfurt a.M., Minerva, 1962
Notitia dignitatum : accedunt Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae et
Laterculi provinciarum /
edidit
Otto Seeck. Berolini : Weidmann, 1876.
| Web en Internet y Textos electrónicos | |
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| Cognate entities - printed | |
| Notitia dignitatum (IntraText Library) - includes text, word lists, concordance, statistics. | 10/2003 |
| Notitia dignitatum (Bibliotheca Augustana, Fachhochschule Augsburg, Ulrich Harsch) (derived from that by Otto Seeck 1876) (incluye 29 figuras) | 10/2003 |
| Notitia dignitatum (edition by Halstein Sjølie derivada de la de Otto Seeck 1876) | 10/2003 |
| Notitia dignitatum (edition by Halstein Sjølie derivada de la de Otto Seeck 1876) | 10/2003 |
| Notitia dignitatum (Ad Fontes Library - edición derivada de la de Otto Seeck 1876) | 10/2003 |
| Notitia dignitatum (Latin Library - edición derivada de la de Otto Seeck 1876) | 10/2003 |
| Notitia dignitatum (Webzone, Russia - edición derivada de la de Otto Seeck 1876) | 10/2003 |
| Notitia Dignitatum (Relación de Dignidades) (Hilario Gómez Saafigueroa) (edición derivada de la de Otto Seeck 1876) (incluye 1 figura) | 10/2003 |
| Notitia dignitatum (Signa Inferre - edición derivada de la de Otto Seeck 1876) | 04/2004 |
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| Cognate entities - manuscript | |
| Book (C) - Cambridge, FitzWilliam Museum, ms. 86-1972 (fragment) | 03/2004 |
| Book (L) - Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, ms. BPL 2869 (fragment) | 10/2003 |
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| Cognate entities - manuscript catalogue references | |
| Checklist of shelfmark-based filmstrips (Bodleian Library, Oxford): also referred to under maps | 10/2003 |
| Codices Vulcaniani (Bibliothecae Universitatis Leidensis Codices Manuscripti) | 10/2003 |
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| Translations | |
| Notitia dignitatum: Register of dignitaries (translation by William Fairley, 1894) another copy | 10/2003 |
| Notitia dignitatum: the British section RBO Geographical Resources (text and translation) | 10/2003 |
| Notitia dignitatum: Hadrian's wall section RBO Geographical Resources (text and translation) | 10/2003 |
| Dux prounciae ualeriae (Notitia dignitatum) | 10/2003 |
| Excerpts (Latin/French) (Rezoweb Forum: Re - Histoire de la Bretagne Romaine) | 10/2003 |
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| Commentaries - signed | |
| Alliata, E., (ofm), The Madaba Mozaic map (VI century) (Studium Biblicum Franciscanum - Jerusalem 2000). Section 4: Moab and Edom. 26. Aia - (Ay?). Section 8: The Arabah and the Negev. 98. Praesidium - (al-Fayfa) | 10/2003 |
| Andy, Late Roman shield patterns (includes 22 colured shield designs) | 10/2003 |
| Antiquité tardive: revue internationale d'histoire et d'archéologie: Numéro 6 Les Gouverneurs de province dans l'antiquite tardive (includes 1 picture) | 10/2003 |
| Atzbach, R., Das Gold der Barbarenfürsten. Schätze aus Prunkgräbern des 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. zwischen Kaukasus und Gallien (Ausstellung, Mannheim, Reiss-Museum 11. Februar bis 4. Juni 2001) | 10/2003 |
| Bacon, E., Sarmatian - Iazyg presence in the Carpathian basin and western Europe. | 10/2003 |
| Barlow, J. and Brennan, P., Tribuni Scholarum Palatinarum C .A.D. 353-64: Ammianus Marcellinus and the Notitia Dignitatum, Classical Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 1, pp. 237-254: Abstract. | 10/2003 |
| Bondoc, D., Repertoriul fortificaþiilor de pe ripa nordicã a limesului Dunãrii de Jos în epoca romanã târzie (Romanian Journal of Archaeology) 2000. | 10/2003 |
| Cimino, G., L'esercito imperiale romano nel IV secolo. | 03/2004 |
| Da Costa, N.G., Présence et activites militaires romaines au nord et au nord-est de la mer noire (with maps) | 10/2003 |
| De Vries, B., The Anonymity of Ancient Umm el-Jimal. | 10/2003 |
| Dumas-Acolat, D., Terra antiqua (paysage vu et représenté par les Romains et à la géographie romaine): Notitia (includes 2 pictures) | 10/2003 |
| Elton, H. Primary sources for Roman warfare: Notitia dignitatum. (bibliography) | 10/2003 |
| Elton, E., review of P. Southern and K.R. Dixon, The Late Roman Army. London 1996 in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.2.16. | 10/2003 |
| Gibbon, E., The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (volume 2). | 03/2004 |
| Horton, A., Notitia dignitatum (message 3065 on Yahoo Group 'sussexpast'). | 10/2003 |
| Ikins, T. G., The Roman Map of Britain including a section on the Notitia | 10/2003 |
| Jay's Roman History, Coins and Technology site. (The section on 'Government and Bureaucracy in the Late Roman Empire' includes 5 articles - 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 - each of which contains a picture) | 02/2004 |
| Jenerette, K.M., A Re-Examination of the Insignia of the Notitia Dignitatum (May 1998) [ pdf ] | 10/2003 |
| Jeroen, Legio septima gemina | 10/2003 |
| Kirsch, J.P., Notitia Dignitatum (Catholic Encyclopedia). | 10/2003 |
| La Bédoyère, G. de, The Roman Army in Britain | 10/2003 |
| Lendering, J., The Roman Legions | 10/2003 |
| Mandic, D., Bosnia y Herzegovina - Provincias Croatas | 10/2003 |
| Matthews, K., Britannia in the Ravenna Cosmography | 10/2003 |
| Maxwell, The Roman army and the frontier (includes a picture) - another copy | 10/2003 |
| Northvegr: Sculca. | 03/2004 |
| O'Donnell, J., The career of Virius Nicomachus Flavianus: Phoenix 32 1978 pp.129-43. | 10/2003 |
| O'Donnell, J., Cassiodorus: Variae and (notes). | 10/2003 |
| Purpura, G., Sulle origini della Notitia Dignitatum (includes 23 pictures) | 10/2003 |
| Rauch, H.D. Imperium Romanum: Provinz Raetia . | 03/2004 |
| Richardot, P. L'armée romaine du bas-empire | 03/2004 |
| Richardot, P. La fin de l'armée romaine. Chapitre IV | 03/2004 |
| Ross, K.L. Roman Army c 408 AD (map) | 10/2003 |
| Ross, K.L. The Eastern Provinces of the Notitia Dignitatum (map). | 10/2003 |
| Ross, K.L. The Western Provinces of the Notitia Dignitatum (map). | 10/2003 |
| Ross, K.L. Yin and Yang and the I-Ching | 10/2003 |
| Sertima, I.van (ed.), The golden age of the Moor: Moorish militarism. (Journal of African Civilizations, Vol II, Fall 1991) | 03/2004 |
| Sullivan, M.A., Piazza Armerina, Sicilia | 10/2003 |
| Tkachenko, A. A., 'Notitia dignitatum' kak istochni pozdneantichnoy emblematike' (Mir Istorii, 5.2001). [Russian] | 10/2003 |
| Ueda-Saron, L., Roman shield patterns of the 3rd century AD | 02/2004 |
| Ueda-Saron, L., Late Roman Shield Patterns taken from the Notitia Dignitatum | 02/2004 |
| Van Dorst, S., The late roman army. | 10/2003 |
| Vermaat, R., Notitia dignitatum (includes 2 pictures) | 10/2003 |
| Vermaat, R., Notitia dignitatum for Britain (includes 4 pictures) | 10/2003 |
| Walker, B., The Saxon shore forts (contains list) | 03/2004 |
| Wölfel, C., Mythos und politische Allegorie auf Tafelsilber der römischen Kaiserzeit see Kap4.pdf | 10/2003 |
| Woods, D., The Origin of the Cult of SS. Sergius and Bacchus | 10/2003 |
| Wright, D., The illustration of text: from roll to codex | 10/2003 |
| Zeppetzauer E., Ala nova, das römische Schwechat (includes 1 picture) | 10/2003 |
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| Commentaries - unsigned | |
| Ancient sites: Notitia dignitatum and Place-names in the Notitia dignitatum | 10/2003 |
| Ancient world mapping centre | 12/2003 |
| A new Hadrian's Wall bronze cup (also Finds and BBC news) | 03/2004 |
| Antiquitas Spätantike Verwaltung - Notitia Dignitatum | 02/2004 |
| Archaeotopos Learning Library: La provincia Venetia et Histria | 12/2003 |
| Armamentarium - The book of Roman arms and armour | 10/2003 |
| Bedeutende Bibliotheken Europas in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Bibliothèque de France: Paris (s.v. HSLS HP 246-1911-2 - (15. Jh.) | 10/2003 |
| Coinage of the Byzantine Empire (Exhibition at Dumbarton Oaks, March 20, 1999-January 2, 2000): Uses of coins (includes 1 picture). | 10/2003 |
| Coinage of the Roman Tetrarchy (includes a picture) | 10/2003 |
| Die historische Legio XV Apollinaris Pia Fidelis | 03/2004 |
| Der Römische Limes in Österreich (incluing map) | 10/2003 |
| Dislokacija pojedinih jedinica na limesu i komparativni prilog velicina njihovih fortifikacija | 10/2003 |
| Equites Stablesianorum Gariannonensium (Living History Organisation - Reenactment unit) | 10/2003 |
| Exercitus Noricus | 10/2003 |
| Heruli the history 268 - 568 AD | 10/2003 |
| Histoire chronologique du Département de la Manche depuis l'antiquite jusqu'au XIe siècle (includes 3 pictures) | 10/2003 |
| Historia - The story of Legio VI Victrix Pia Fidelis Britannica (includes 1 picture) | 03/2004 |
| Late Roman/Early Byzantine Army Organization | 10/2003 |
| Legio VIIII Hispana (incluces 3 pictures) | 03/2004 |
| Military commands in late Roman Britain | 02/2004 |
| Notitia dignitatum (Österreich-Lexikon) | 10/2003 |
| Recomposition du système de défense : la Notitia Dignitatum | 10/2003 |
| Roman Forts on the Arabian Frontier (Virtual Karak Resources Project - Appalachian College Association). | 10/2003 |
| Saxon presence in Britain before 449 (Matheliende- The Newsletter of Anglo-Saxon Studies at The University of Georgia Volume II, Number 2 (Winter, 1995) | 10/2003 |
| Saxon Shore Forts (Athena Review 1,2). | 10/2003 |
| The 'Saxon Shore' (Archaeological Essays and Information). | 10/2003 |
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| Editions in preparation | |
| P. Brennan, The Notitia Dignitatum (edition, translation, commentary) (Translated Texts for Historians), Liverpool University Press | 10/2003 |
| R.I. Ireland, Notitia dignitatum (B.G. Teubner, Leipzig) ISBN 3815415527 | 10/2003 |
| Pytheas Publishing House Digital reprint of Froben imprint (1552) | 02/2004 |
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