Editing Notitia Dignitatum (section)

{{Short description|Document of the Late Roman Empire}}
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[[File:Bodl Canon.Misc.378 roll159B frame28.jpg|thumb|Page from a medieval copy of the {{lang|la|Notitia Dignitatum}} commissioned in 1436 by [[Pietro Donato]], depicting shields of ''Magister Militum Praesentalis II'', a late Roman register of military commands.<br> [[Bodleian Library]], Oxford.]]
[[File:Notitia Dignitatum - Dux Palestinae.jpg|thumb|Palestine and the [[Jordan River|River Jordan]], from the {{lang|la|Notitia Dignitatum}} illuminated by [[Peronet Lamy]]]]
The '''{{lang|la|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 [[Later Roman Empire|Late Roman Empire]] that details the administrative organization of the [[Western Roman Empire|Western]] and the [[Byzantine Empire|Eastern Roman Empire]]. It is unique as one of very few surviving documents of Roman government, and describes several thousand offices from the imperial court to provincial governments, [[diplomatic mission]]s, and [[Late Roman army|army units]]. It is usually considered to be accurate for the Western Roman Empire in the 420s AD and for the Eastern or Byzantine Empire in the 390s AD. However, the text itself is not dated (nor is its author named), and omissions complicate ascertaining its date from its content.