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This is a mid-16th century copy of the late 4th to early 5th century "Notitia dignitatum omnium tam civilium quam militarium in partibus orientis".
Great image resolution.
You can download images in PDF format, using [PDF-Download] function linked in webpage's upper right corner.
The entire collection in PDF format is about 114 megabytes.
It's great to have access to this important document, but one should bear in mind that the Munich copy differs from the better-known and perhaps more trustworthy Oxford copy regarding lots of the shield colours.
So when using it one should also have the Oxford version at hand.
Superb- many thanks, very useful, and a superb source. The Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek version
daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00005863/images/index.html?seite=179&pdfseitex= also has De Rebus Bellicis (with alternative pictures of the thoromachus , plumbatae etc) and the other documents in the manuscript.Plus alternative drawings at the back http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/...&seite=352
In the plates at the rear, under Zweiter Satz Miniaturen
Wiederholung aller Miniaturen , some similar colours to the Oxford manuscript are shown- eg the Batavi Iuniores with a green shield and red dog http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/...&seite=409
The most used (complete) versions is the Bodleian one from Oxford (Oxford, Bodleian library, western ms. 19854 - Canonici ms. misc. lat. 378, fol.88v-170r).
The ones from Munich (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, ms. Clm. 10291: codex 1 = fol.1-170, (fol.88r-169v) and München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, ms. Clm. 10291: codex 2 = fol.171-222, (fol.178v-222v) are in fact two documents, part of a compilation of 13 documents (Collectio Spirensis) from Speyer which also includes other documents, such as the Notitia Galliarum, De Rebus Bellicis, The Antonine Itinerary and others.
The Oxford version is to be preferred because it uses far more colours than the Munich document.
All MSS are copies of an early Medieval copy (the 11th-c. Codex Spirensis, now lost) and originated between 1427 and 1551, none go back directly on the 5th c. original.
Robert Vermaat MODERATOR FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
I looked this up last night as well (A Roman Reformer and Inventor E. A. Thompson (Other Contributor, Translator), E A Thompson - on De Rbus Bellicis) . Apparently the noble who commissioned the first copy of the Munich manuscript (now digitised) was unhappy with the first lot of illustrations as he felt that they had been "modernised". He therefore sent his illustrator back for a second go. The illustrator was "lazy" though....It'll be a long term project, but I plan to do a proper analysis of the illustrations- maybe the common features will be closest to the original...
Anyone know where I can get pictures from the Paris edition?
I'm sorry the images are not larger - I'm serving a tour of duty in Afghanistan and after I return I will upload the much larger resolution images I have from slides of the Oxford Bodleian copy of the Notitia Dignitatum - CPT J
Quote:I'm sorry the images are not larger - I'm serving a tour of duty in Afghanistan and after I return I will upload the much larger resolution images I have from slides of the Oxford Bodleian copy of the Notitia Dignitatum - CPT J
Thanks for the reply. I'm very pleased to hear that you are still involved with the Notitia! We had a brief contact about the ND ages ago, and I was under the impression that you did not have the time for it any longer. I'm glad you joined the forum.
Robert Vermaat MODERATOR FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
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