Page from the Notitia Dignitatum, a medieval copy of a Late Roman register of military commands

The Notitia Dignitatum lists 25 legiones palatinae, 70 legiones comitatenses, 47 legiones pseudocomitatenses and 111 auxilia palatina in the field armies, and a further 47 legiones in the frontier armies.

The Notitia Dignitatum mentions the Tribunus cohortis primae novae Armoricanae, Grannona in litore Saxonico.

According to the interpretation of Herwig Wolfram, the Notitia Dignitatum equates the Vesi with the Tervingi in a reference to the years 388 – 391.

The Notitia Dignitatum, with shields of the Late Roman army

* Late Roman army: The Notitia Dignitatum shows the development of forces in the Roman Empire.

The only sources are Ammianus, who describes the battle but mentions few units by name, and the eastern Notitia Dignitatum, which lists Roman army units in the late 4th to early 5th century, after Theodosius.

The Notitia Dignitatum ( circa 400 ) mentions them still, two being under the authority of the Vicarius of the diocese of Africa:

Including these towns there were altogether twenty which are known to have received at one time or another the title and status of Roman colonies ; and in the 5th century the Notitia Dignitatum enumerates no less than 123 sees whose bishops assembled at Carthage in 479.

The Notitia Dignitatum lists its units and their bases as of the 390s CE.

By then it would be known as the Saxon Shore, a name given it by the Notitia Dignitatum.

A better sense of the size of the forces may be found in the study of the Notitia Dignitatum by A. H. M.

Notitia Dignitatum lists 58 various regular units, and 33 limitanei serving either in the Gallic provinces or on the frontiers nearby ; the total of these units, based on Jones analysis, is 34, 000 for the regular units and 11, 500 for the limitanei, or just under 46, 000 all told.

Later the commands of Antoninus Pius and Notitia Dignitatum called this fort Danum, from which the town derives the " Don -" () part of its name ; " caster " ( ceaster ) an Old English adaptation of the Latin word Castra, meaning a military camp.

The Doncaster garrison units are named in the Notitia Dignitatum or ' Register of Dignitaries ', produced around the turn of the 5th century near the end of Roman rule in Britain.

This developed a complex administrative structure, which is outlined in the Notitia Dignitatum and the work of John Lydus, but as far as we know appointments to it were made entirely by inheritance or patronage and not on merit, and it was also possible for officers to employ other people to carry out their official tasks but continue to draw their salary themselves.

According to the late 4th-century Notitia Dignitatum, it was headed by a governor of the rank of praeses, and was also the seat of the dux Mesopotamiae, who ranked as vir spectabilis and commanded ( c. 400 ) the following troops:

410 – 425, based on the Notitia Dignitatum.

* Notitia Dignitatum, a document of the Roman imperial chanceries

Contemporary sources, however, sometimes imply that clibanarii were in fact a heavier type of cavalryman, or formed special-purpose units ( such as the late Equites Sagittarii Clibanarii, a Roman equivalent of horse archers, first mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum ).

As a result of this lingering period of exposure to cataphracts, by the 4th century, the Roman Empire had adopted a number of vexillations of mercenary cataphract cavalry ( see the Notitia Dignitatum ), such as the Sarmatian Auxiliaries.

The 5th-century Notitia Dignitatum mentions a specialist unit of clibanarii known as the Equites Sagittarii Clibanarii-evidently a unit of heavily armored horse archers based on the heavy cavalry of contemporary Persian armies.

All the known and extant copies of the Notitia Dignitatum, a unique document of the Roman imperial chanceries and one of the very few surviving documents of Roman government, are derived, either directly or indirectly, from the Codex Spirensis which is known to have existed in the library of the cathedral chapter.

Shield design of the Quartodecimani, a comitatensis legion under the Magister Militum per Thracias, 5th century, according to Notitia Dignitatum.

# The Notitia does not contain any personnel figures.

Its size, however, is unknown, and it does not appear in the Notitia.

The quarter is recorded as regio XIV in the early 5th-century Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae, where it is recorded as being enclosed by a wall of its own.

The 5th century Notitia Dignitatum mentions a " Formation of Sarmatians " ( Cuneus Sarmatarum ; cunei were small auxiliary units in the late Empire ) being present at Bremetennacum ( Ribchester ), where we find inscriptions dating to the 3rd century AD of a " Wing of Sarmatians " ( ala Sarmatarum ) and a " Company of Sarmatian Horsemen " ( numeri equitum Sarmatarum ).

In addition to these fort garrisons, the dux commanded the troops at Hadrian's Wall and the Notitia lists their stations from east to west as well as some further forts on the Cumbrian coast.

Although the Notitia Dignitatum still mentions several naval units for the Western Empire, these were apparently too depleted to be able to carry out much more than patrol duties.

Notable in the Notitia is the large number of smaller squadrons that have been created, most of these fluvial and of a local operational role.

They are described in the Roman administrative document Notitia dignitatum — dating from the time of Theodosius I in the 4th century — as comprising distinctive units in the composition of the Roman army and they are distinguished in the document from Arabs and Iiluturaens.

The first two comprise entirely his Syntagma philosophicum ; the third contains his critical writings on Epicurus, Aristotle, Descartes, Robert Fludd and Herbert of Cherbury, with some occasional pieces on certain problems of physics ; the fourth, his Institutio astronomica, and his Commentarii de rebus celestibus ; the fifth, his commentary on the tenth book of Diogenes Laërtius, the biographies of Epicurus, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, Georg von Peuerbach, and Regiomontanus, with some tracts on the value of ancient money, on the Roman calendar, and on the theory of music, with an appended large and prolix piece entitled Notitia ecclesiae Diniensis ; the sixth volume contains his correspondence.

* AD 420's or 430's-III is listed in the Notitia Dignitatum-a record of Roman military units and their stations.

The Notitia Dignitatum, which lists Roman units and their heraldry, indicates that the Franks were taken as auxiliaries into the Roman army.

The classical yin yang pattern appears, for the first time, in the Roman Notitia Dignitatum, an ancient collection of shield patterns of the Roman army.

File: Notitia Dignitatum-Magister Peditum 4. jpg | Coat of arms of the Roman armigeri defensores seniores ( 4th row, third from left ), dated to ca.

Ceriani ( Notitia Liturgiæ Ambrosianæ ) supports his contention by many references to early writers and by comparisons of early forms of the Roman Ordinary with the Ambrosian.

A legion called the Menapii Seniores is mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum, a 5th century register of Roman government positions and military commands.

The Tungri were mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum, an early fifth-century document, in which was transcribed every military and governmental post in the late Roman Empire.

The 5th century Notitia Dignitatum lists their soldiers as Salii.