German regions, southern part ; Speyer?, 15th century, last quarter (perhaps 1484)
Language
Latin
Title
Fragment (Latin)
Notitia dignitatum
Notitia dignitatum, BPL 2869
Description
Content:
Maculature. Contains text from: Notitia dignitatum omnium tam
civilium quam militarium utriusque imperii Romani (Or.
XXXVI.7-XXXVIII.41 and Occ. I,1-II,21). - With 4 maps. Note:
Originally part of the same codex as Frankfurt SUB, lat. qu. 76.
Based on other (printed) binding fragments from the same binding,
the codex was cut up in Frankfurt in or after 1622.
Origin: Copied from a (now lost) carolingian manuscript (probably
based on a 4th-century text), which was kept in in Speyer Cathedral
Library in the 15th century. Codex VLF 44 is an indirect copy of
the Speyer codex.
Kept in a conservation folder.
Textual: Notitia dignitatum contains list of the offices in both
the eastern and western part of the Roman Empire.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Gumbert 2009):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
Also described by MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD,
The Hague). Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
