This page created 12 December 2015, and last modified: 30 December 2015

A list of some of the sources I have used in preparing my pages regarding the Notitia. All of these are referenced somewhere on the site, but not list is not yet complete. A more extensive bibliography can be found at Ingo Maier's site.

Ancient sources:

"Ammianus" (Ammianus Marcellinus); "Res gestae a fine Corneli Taciti"; available here in Latin and here in English translation (last accessed 21 November 2015).

"Cicero" (Marcus Tullius Cicero); "In Catilinam"; available here in Latin and here in English translation (last accessed 29 October 2015).

"Claudian" (Claudius Claudianus); "Bellum Geticum" (= "De Bello Gothico").

"Claudian" (Claudius Claudianus); "In Gildonem" (= "De Bello Gildonico), available here in Latin (last accessed 20 December 2015).

(various); "Codex Theodosianus", available here in Latin (last accessed 20 December 2015).

"Eugippius"; "Vita Sancti Severini" (Life of St. Severinus); available here in Latin and here in English translation (last accessed 27 December 2015).

(anonymous); "Epitome de Caesaribus"; available here in Latin and here in English translation (last accessed 12 December 2015).

"Gregory of Tours" (Georgius Florentius Gregorius); "Decem Libri Historiarum" (Historia Francorum); available here in Latin (last accessed 12 December 2015).

"Herodian"; "Tes meta Markon basileias istoria" (History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus); available here in English translation (last accessed 12 December 2015).

(anonymous); "Itinerarium provinciarum Antonini Augusti"; available here in Latin (last accessed 12 December 2015).

"Leo the Wise" (attributed); "Taktika" ("Ton en polemois taktikon syntomos"); in Jacques-Paul Migne, "Patrologiae cursus completus [Series Graeca]" Vol. 107, Apud Garnier Fratres et J.-P. Migne Successores (1863), col 669-1116; available here in Greek with Latin translation (last accessed 22 December 2015).

"Malalas" (Ioannes Malalas); "Chronographia"; in Muller, Carl; Letronne, Antonie Jean (Eds.); "Fragmenta Historicum Graecorum"; vol. 4, Paris, A.F. Didot (1851); available here in Greek and with Latin translation (last accessed 21 November 2015).

"Procopius" (Prokopios o Kaisareus); "Hyper ton polemon logoi" (section: "De Bello Gothico"), available here in Greek with Latin translation , and here in English translation (last accessed 23 December 2015).

"Procopius" (Prokopios o Kaisareus); "Peri Ktismaton" (= "de Aedificiis"); available here in Greek and in Latin translation, and here in English translation (last accessed 20 December 2015).

"Vegetius" (Publius Flavius Renatus Vegetius); "Epitoma rei militaris"; available here in Latin and here in English translation (last accessed 12 December 2015).

Editions:

Böcking, Eduard; "Notitia dignitatum et administrationum omnium tam ciuilium quam militarium in partibus orientis et occidentis", Adolph Marcus, Bonn, 3 Volumes + Index (1839-1853); Volume 1 (the East; 1839) available here; Volume 2 (the West, part 1; 1840) here; Volume 3 (the West, part 2; 1850) here; Index (1853) here and also here (last accessed 20 December 2015).

Seeck, Otto (Ed.); "Notitia Dignitatum accedunt Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae et Latercula prouinciarum", Weidmann, Berlin, 1876; available here (last accessed 2 January 2016).

References:

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Bacharach, Bernard S.; "A History of the Alans in the West: From Their First Appearance in the Sources of Classical Antiquity Through the Early Middle Ages", University of Minnesota Press, 1973.

Bajenaru, Constantin; "Minor Fortifications in the Balkan Danubian Area from Diocletian to Justinian"; National Museum of Romanian History, The Center for Roman Military Studies, Mega Publishing House, 2010; available here (last accessed 29 October 2015).

Bédoyère, Guy de la; "The Roman Army in Britain" ( last accessed 9 December 2015).

Birley, Eric; "The Roman Fort at Ravenglass"; Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (Series 2), LVIII (1958), 14-30; available here (last accessed 17 November 2015).

Bishop, M.C.; "Excavations in the Roman Fort at Chester-le-Street (Concangis), Church Chare 1990-91", Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series, 21 (1993), 29-85; online version available here (last accessed 11 November 2015).

Bishop, M.C.; "The garrison: Part I", posted 2 August 2014, and last accessed 15 November 2015.

Breeze, D.J.; Dobson, B.; "Hadrian's Wall"; Allen Lane, London, 1976.

Bruce, John Collingwood; "The Roman Wall: A Description of the Mural Barrier of the North of England", 3rd edition; Longmans, London (1867); online version available here (last accessed 15 November 2015).

Bruce, John Collingwood; "A Descriptive Catalogue of Antiquities, Chiefly British at Alnwick Castle"; Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1880).

Burns, Thomas S.; "Barbarians within the Gates of Rome: a Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, ca. 375-425 A.D."; Indiana University Press, 1994.

Cichorius, Conrad; "Die Reliefs der Traianssäule"; Verlag von Georg Reimer, Berlin (2 volumes, 1896-1900).

Davies, R.W.; "Roman Scotland and Roman auxiliary units"; Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 108 (1976-7), 168-173; available here (last accessed 26 December 2015).

Drew-Bear, Thomas; "A Fourth-Century Latin Soldier's Epitaph at Nakolea"; Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 81 (1977), pp 257-274; available here (last accessed 25 December 2015).

Drijvers, Jan Willem; "Helena Augusta: The Mother of Constantine the Great and the Legend of Her Finding of the True Cross"; Brill, Leiden, 1992.

Elton, Hugh; "Warfare in Roman Europe, AD 340 - 425"; Clarendon, Oxford, 1996.

Frere, S.S.; Roxan, Margaret; Tomlin, R.S.O. (Eds); "The Roman Inscriptions of Britain", Vol. II, Fasc. I; Allan Sutton, Gloucester, 1990.

Genequand, Denis.; "Al-Bakhrac (Avatha), from the Tetrarchic Fort to the Umayyad Castle"; Levant 36 (2004), pp 225-242.

Green, Miranda J.; "The Wheel As a Cult-symbol in the Romano-Celtic World, with special reference to Gaul and Britain"; Latomus 183, Brussels (1984).

Green, Thomas; "Tealby, the Taifali, and the end of Roman Lincolnshire"; Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, Vol. 46 (2011), pp 5-10; available here (last accessed 8 December 2015).

Grigg, Robert; "Portrait-Bearing Codicils in the Illustrations of the Notitia Dignitatum?"; The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 69 (1979), pp 107-124.

Grigg, Robert; "Inconsistency and Lassitude: The Shield Emblems of the Notitia Dignitatum"; The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 73 (1983), pp 132-142.

Hassall, M.W.C.; in "Aspects of the Notitia Dignitatum", British Archaeological Reports, supplemental series 15 (1976), Oxford.

Hassall, M.W.C.; "The historical background and military units of the Saxon Shore"; in "BA Research Report No. 18, The Saxon Shore"; Ed. D.E. Johnston, The Council for British Archaeology (1977); , pp 7-10, available here (last accessed 1 November 2015).

Hill, D., Maude, D., Warburton, K., Worthington, M.; "Quentovic defined"; Antiquity, 64 (1990), pp 51-58.

Hoffmann, Dietrich; "Die Spätrömischen Soldatengrabschriften von Concordia"; Schweizerische Zeitschrift für klassische Altertumswissenschaft, Vol. 20.1 (1963), pp 22-57; available here (last accessed 8 December 2015).

Isaac, Benjamin; "The meaning of the terms Limes and Limitanei"; The Journal of Roman Studies, 78 (1988), pp 125-147, available here (last accessed 30 Decber 2015).

James, Simon; "Excavations at Dura-Europos 1928-1937, Final Report VII, The Arms and Armour and other Military Equipment", British Museum Press, London 2004.

Jones, A.H.M.; "The Later Roman Empire, 284-602; A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey"; Blackwell, Oxford, 1964 (3 volumes).

Kaiser, A.M.; "Egyptian Units and the reliability of the Notitia dignitatum, pars Oriens"; Imperium and Officium Working Papers (2014); available here (last accessed 6 December 2015).

Kovács, Péter; "The late Roman army in Pannonia"; Acta Ant. Hung. 44 (2004), pp 115-122; available here (last accessed 12 December 2015).

Kulikowski, Michael; "The Notitia Dignitatum as a Historical Source"; Historia, 49.3 (2000), pp 358-377.

Lenski, Noel; "Assimilation and Revolt in the Territory of Isauria, from the 1st Century BC to the 6th Century AD"; Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 42.4 (1999), pp 413-465; available here (last accessed 23 December 2015).

Lightfoot, C.S.; "The Eastern Frontier of the Roman Empire with special reference to the reign of Constantius II", D.Phil. thesis, Oxford, 1982; available here (last accessed 27 October 2015).

Maier, I.G.; "The Barberinus and Munich codices of the 'Notitia Dignitatum omnium'"; Latomus 28.4 (1969) pp. 960-1035; available here (last accessed 12 December 2015).

Maier, Ingo; "Appendix 1: Archival evidence about the Speyer cathedral chapter, its library, and the codex Σ containing the Compilation 'notitia dignitatum' (Cnd)" (last accessed 20 December 2015).

Maier, Ingo; "Appendix 4: Numeration of the new edition of the compilation 'notitia dignitatum' (Cnd)" (last accessed 26 October 2015).

Maier, Ingo; "Appendix 5: The decorated stands in the Compilation 'notitia dignitatum' (Cnd) " (last accessed 20 December 2015).

Maier, Ingo; "Appendix 8: Illyricum in the Compilation 'notitia dignitatum' (Cnd)" (last accessed 14 December 2015).

Matei-Popescu, Florian<; "The Roman Army in Moesia Inferior"; National Museum of Romanian History, Centre for Roman Military Studies, 7; Eds O. Tentea, F. Matei-Popescu; Conphys, Bucharest (2010); available here (last accessed 27 December 2015).

Mehamadiev, E.A.; "Anonymus de Rebus Bellicis and Latin inscriptions from Aquileia: the question of the formation and development divisions seniores-iuniores late Roman army in the 4th C"; in Mnemon, Research and publications on the history of the Ancient World; Ed. E.D. Frolova; Issue 13 (2013); pp 277-291, available here (in Russian; last accessed 31 December 2015).

Mertens, J.; "Oudenburg and the northern sector of the continental Litus Saxonicum"; in "BA Research Report No. 18, The Saxon Shore"; Ed. D.E. Johnston, The Council for British Archaeology (1977); pp 51-62, available here (last accessed 1 November 2015).

Museo di Antichita di Torino; "Tesoro di Marengo", Cataloghi 3 (last accessed 28 October 2015).

Nickel, Helmut; "The Dragon and the Pearl"; Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 26, (1991), pp. 139-146; available here (last accessed 3 December 2015).

Nischer, E.C.; "The Army Reforms of Diocletian and Constantine and Their Modifications up to the Time of the Notitia Dignitatum"; The Journal of Roman Studies, 13 (1923), pp 1-55; available here (last accessed 23 December 2015).

Nouwen, Robert; "The Vindolanda Tablet 88/841 and the Cohors I Tungrorum Milliaria"; Acta Archaeologica Lovaniensia. Monographiae 8 (1995), p 123-134; available here (last accessed 27 November 2015).

Onur, Fatih; "The Roman Army in Pamphylia: From the Third to Sixth Centuries A.D."; Adalya XII (2009), pp 299-318; available here (last accessed 30 December 2015).

Petersen, Leiva & Wachtel, Klaus (Eds.); "Prosopographia Imperii Romani saec. I. II. III., Pars VI"; Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1998.

Rance, Philip; "The Third Equites Stablesiani at Cyrrhus"; Chiron 42 (2012), pp 347-360; available here (last accessed 7 December 2015).

Rance, Philip; "Sculca, *sculcator, exculcatore and proculcator: The Scouts of the Late Roman ARmy and a Disputed Etymology"; Latomus 73 (2014), pp 474-501, available here (last accessed 13 January 2016).

Rivet, A.L.F.; Smith, Colin; "The Place-Names of Roman Britain"; Batsford, London, 1979.

Saddington, Denis; "Two Notes on Roman Germany"; Acta Classica XLVIII (2005), 195-199; available here (last accessed 17 November 2015).

Shotter, D.C.A.; "Numeri Barcariorum: A Note on RIB 601"; Britannia, iv (1973) 206-209.

Shotter, David; "Roman Names for Roman Sites in North West England"; Contrebis (Lancaster, England: Lancaster Archaeological and Historical Society) XXIII (1998), 9-10; available here (last accessed 7 November 2015).

Société Archéologique du Sillon Mosan; "Aspects d'une moyenne capitale régionale à travers les siècles: Mouzon, autrefois Mosomagus" (last accessed 23 December 2015).

Speidel, M.A.; "The Development of the Roman Forces in Northeastern Anatolia. New evidence for the history of the exercitus Cappadocicus", in Heer und Herrschaft im Römischen Reich der Hohen Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart, 2009, pp 595-631; available here (last accessed 16 December 2015).

Speidel, M.P.; "The Army at Aquileia, the Moesiaci Legion, and the Shield-Emblems in the Notitia Dignitatum", Roman Army Studies II, Stuttgart 1992, pp 414-418.

Speidel, M.P.; "Raising New Units for the Late Roman Army"; Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 50 (1996), pp 163-170; available here (last accessed 23 December 2015).

Speidel, M.P.; "Who Fought in the Front?", in G. Alföldy, B. Dobson, and W. Eck (Eds.), Kaiser, Heer und Gesellschaft in der Römischen Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart, 2000, pp 473-82, at p 481.

Stephenson, Paul; "Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor"; Overlook Press, New York, 2010.

Stjerna, Knut; "Hjälmar och svärd i Beovulf"; I: Studier tillägnade Oscar Montelius 19 9/9 03 / af lärjungar, Stockholm (1903).

Tomlin, Roger; "Seniores-Iuniores in the Late-Roman Field Army"; The American Journal of Philology, XCIII, 2 (1972), pp 253-278; available here (last accessed 23 December 2015).

Tomlin, R.S.O.; Wright, R.P.; Hassall, M.W.C.; "The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, Vollume III, Inscriptions on Stone"; Oxbow, Oxford (2009).

Woods, David; "Ammianus Marcellinus and the Deaths of Bonosus and Maximilianus"; Hagiographica, 2 (1995), pp 25-55.

Woods, David; "Julian, Arbogastes, and the signa of the Ioviani and Herculaiani"; Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies, 6 (1995), pp 61-68.

Woods, David; "Some Eunapiania", in 'Eklogai: studies in honour of Thomas Finan and Gerard Watson'; Ed. K McGroarty, NUI Maynooth (2001); pp 93-94.

Woods, David; "Flavius Felix and the signum of the numerus Divitensium"; Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 156 (2006), pp 242-244, available here (last accessed 26 December 2015).

Woods, David; "Theodosius I (379-395 A.D.)", at note 8; last accessed 31 December 2015.

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