Liber ad honorem Augusti

The Liber ad honorem Augusti sive de rebus Siculis ("Book in honour of the Augustus, or on Sicilian affairs"; also called Carmen de motibus Siculis, "Poem on the Sicilian revolt") is an illustrated narrative epic in Latin elegiac couplets, written in Palermo in 1196 by Peter of Eboli (in Latin, Petrus de Ebulo).

[2] The presentation copy, ordered by chancellor Conrad of Querfurt, is now MS. 120 II of the Bern Municipal Library.

Composed in honour of Henry VI and intended for presentation to him, the poem, distributed into three books, the last one being an encomium of Henry VI, and 52 continuously numbered particulae, is written in a mannered and sophisticated style.

), and the birth of her son Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (part.

The fierce caricatures of Tancred, who is depicted as almost ape-like in stature and features, match the propagandistic bias of the text.