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Appendix 10: The Masters of soldiers in the Compilation 'notitia dignitatum' (Cnd) § Sections page 1 Introduction 2 2 Official texts from 344-534 and copies of them that are independent of the Cnd 4 2a The compilations of Roman imperial laws 5 2b The accuracy of copies of the laws 7 2c The importance of the laws 7 3 The master of soldiers 8 3a The service position M- 8 3b The rank, dignity and precedence of the service position M- 10 4 The Latin names for the service position M- in laws and inscriptions 12 4a Summary of the names for M- 12 4b Magister equitum et peditum MEP 13 4c Magister utriusque militiae MVM 16 4d Magister militum MM 18 4e Magisteria potestas MaP 20 4f Extraordinary M- (temporary, reserve and substitute officers) 22 4g Other names used for the service position M- 23 4h The designations praesentalis and in praesenti 24 1. praesentalis 24 2. in praesenti 28 5 The names magister equitum ME and magister peditum MP 30 5a Magister peditum 31 5b Magister equitum 34 6 The Cnd lists and pictures and their numbering 39 6a Precedence lists 39 6b Agency lists 40 6c Pictures 41 6d Numbering and reference 41 7 The Cnd names for the position M- compared with those in laws and inscriptions 42 7a Unsynchronised and unstandardised names for positions M- 43 7b The Cnd names for the service position M- in laws and inscriptions 43 1. magister peditum 43 2. magister equitum 43 3. magister equitum per gallias 43 4. regional designations MEP 44 5. regional designations MM 44 6. magisteria potestas MaP 44 7. in praesenti 44 8. praesentalis 44 9. pars equitum, pars peditum 45 10. comes 45 11. Summary 46 7c The name magister utriusque militiae , etc MVM 46 8 The Cnd positions M- and the number of coexisting officers serving as M- 46 9 The Cnd positions M- in the eastern lists 50 9a Agency lists and pictures related to the 5 eastern M- 50 9b Inaccurate representation of some pre-Cnd contents in the Cnd 52 9c Differences in rank among eastern M- 53 9d The officia associated with the eastern M- 54 1. officium cardinale 55 2. officium in numeris militat & in officio deputatur 56 3. Military character of officia 57 4. Size of officia directed by M- 57 5. Soldiers and apparitores 58 6. Status and duties of the officium 60 7. Temporary officia ? 64 10 The 2 eastern central positions M- 66 10a The laws 66 10b The 2 eastern central lists Cnd .9, 12 67 10c The 2 eastern domain lists in Cnd .9, 12 69 10d Two corresponding series of pictures in Cnd .7-8 and 10-11 70 10e Summary 71 contd > p.2 © Ingo G. Maier (Melbourne, Australia) || Draft posted : 14.Nov.2019, revised: 30.Apr.2020 || https://www.notitiadignitatum.org/ 1 11 The Cnd positions M- in the western lists 72 11a The Cnd names of the western positions M- 72 11b Some differences between the eastern and western lists and pictures for the position M- 72 11c The names of the western positions M- in laws and inscriptions 73 11d Some names for western positions M- existing with eastern forms 74 12 The Cnd western lists with the names of comitatenses units 75 12a The western lists of comitatenses units 75 12b The 13 lists comprising Cnd .102/5.53-260 76 1. The lists for the position MEper gallias 77 2. The military units of the comes africae , comes tingitaniae , comes britanniarum 78 3. The agency list of the comes tingitaniae 79 4. The agency list of the comes africae 80 5. The agency list of the comes britanniarum 80 6. The 4 lists comprising Cnd .102/5.53-90, 91-113, 170-186, 209-216 81 13 The 2 Cnd western central lists (98/9 and 102/5.1-52) 86 13a Two agency lists or one? 86 13b The officium lists in the two central lists 87 13c The pictures related to the western central lists 89 13d The drawings related to the dignity of the position M- 91 14 The Cnd western central position magister militum praesentalium 92 14a The Cnd name MMpraesentalium 92 14b The law Cod.Theod.1.7.3 95 14c The law Cod.Theod.1.7.3 compared with related items in the Cnd 95 14d The designations a parte peditum , a parte equitum 97 15 Conclusion 98 # Attachments 1 Summary table. The Latin names for the service position M- in laws, inscriptions and a papyrus text. 100 2 The Latin names for the service position M- in copies of the main compilations of Roman imperial 104 laws. 3 The Latin names for the service position M- in official inscriptions and a text written on papyrus. 108 4 A comparison of the Latin names for the service position M- that were used in related excerpts in 112 copies of the main compilations of Roman imperial laws. 5 A comparison of the Latin names for the service position M- that were used for the same serving 114 officer in both copies of the main compilations of Roman imperial laws and in official inscriptions. 6 Military units and soldiers in the main compilations of Roman imperial laws. 115 7 Comes domesticorum / Comites domesticorum and the scholae domesticorum equitum and peditum. 117 8 All the names that existed in the Cnd for the service position M-. 118 9 Differences and duplications in the representation of the western comitatenses units in the Cnd. 120 10 Headings to officium lists in the Cnd . 122 11 The items in the Cnd related to the name magister militum praesentalium 123 12 Ammianus Marcellinus 125-29 §[1] Introduction In order to clarify some of the concepts and terminology used in this Appendix, the following section contains a partial summary of relevant parts of the introductory section §1: The Compilation 'notitia dignitatum' (Cnd) - definitions and summary that is printed at the beginning of the edition of the Cnd . The name Compilation 'notitia dignitatum ' (Cnd) identifies the entity that was the immediate common exemplar of all those available graphic entities that were derived from a compilation of lists and 89 pictures that began with the list item Notitia dignitatum [...] in partibus orientis and ended with the list item Ceteri praesides [...] dalmatiae officium habent and occupied 164 pages in the codex ýýý that existed in the library of the Speyer cathedral chapter, at least between 1426/27-1550/51. The existence of a codex that was certainly ýýý was last attested at Neuburg a.d. Donau on 1.Dec.1566 and no part of the codex ýýý has been identified certainly as still being available now. Each list in the Cnd consisted of one or more items. 1 All the intelligible items referred to entities (imperial service positions and service units, regions, places, factories, estates and official travel 1 A list item is a separate or distinct part of a list and these items in the Cnd were identified, and separated from each other, either by the use of rubrication (writing an item in red ink rather than brown or black), or by spacing (beginning a new or separate line space - generally ruled in the primary copies), or by initial capital letter, or by punctuation or by any combination of these. © Ingo G. Maier (Melbourne, Australia) || Draft posted : 14.Nov.2019, revised: 30.Apr.2020 || https://www.notitiadignitatum.org/ 2 permits), or related matters, including some duties, and many of these entities and related matters are attested to have existed in the Roman state before c.500, although not all simultaneously. And no list item and no drawing in any picture in the Cnd referred to, or represented, any entity, or related matter, that can be shown to have been created or to have existed for the first time after c.500. The Cnd was produced at some time between the mid-8thC and 1426/7 and, when it was created, the Cnd existed as part of a more extensive compilation of lists and pictures than the fragmentary remainder which comprised the Cnd in 1426/7. Moreover, the contents of the Cnd were derived, to an unknown extent, from an earlier ( pre-Cnd ) compilation (defined below) that was wholly or partly written in the same Carolingian minuscule script that was used in the production of the Cnd . From what is known about the texts that were available to writers between the mid-8thC and 1426/7, it is improbable that they had the textual sources that would be required to create lists that for the first time referred to all the entities and related matters that were listed in the Cnd and that existed in the Roman state for the first time before c.500. It is concluded, therefore, that each of the Cnd lists which contained items referring to those entities and matters was derived from a pre-Cnd list by the scribe(s) who produced the Cnd . A pre-Cnd list can be defined as: a list that contained, in whatever form of their words or numbers, or their sequence, at least all those items of which a copy (that is, a derivative, whether a reproduction or imitation or adaptation, or excerpt or abridgement), whether direct or indirect, existed in a list in the Cnd by 1426/7. The earliest pre-Cnd list could be referred to as a source list . It is also concluded that at least some pre-Cnd lists and pictures co-existed or were combined in a pre- Cnd compilation that was copied, either wholly or partly, by the scribe(s) who produced the Cnd .
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