Notitia Dignitatum

The Notitia dignitatum et administrationum omnium tam civilium quam militarium (Latin for 'List of all dignities and administrations both civil and military') is a document of the Late Roman Empire that details the administrative organization of the Western and the Eastern Roman Empire.

The iteration of 1542 made for Otto Henry, Elector Palatine, was revised with "illustrations more faithful to the originals added at a later date", and is preserved by the Bavarian State Library.

[1] The most important copy of the Codex is that made for Pietro Donato in 1436 and illuminated by Peronet Lamy, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

[6] The emblem of the Thebaei, another Western Roman infantry regiment, featured a pattern of concentric circles comparable to its static version.

The Roman patterns predate the earliest Taoist versions by almost seven hundred years,[6] but there is no evidence for a relation between the two.

Page from a medieval copy of the Notitia Dignitatum commissioned in 1436 by Pietro Donato , depicting shields of Magister Militum Praesentalis II , a late Roman register of military commands.
Bodleian Library , Oxford.
Palestine and the River Jordan , from the Notitia Dignitatum illuminated by Peronet Lamy
Shield pattern of the armigeri defensores seniores (4th row, third from left). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ]
Bodleian Library , Oxford.