Sources
The Latin text remains the source. Modern geography and translation are interpretative layers.
Primary Latin text
Living Notitia follows the scholarly text tradition established by Otto Seeck in his 1876 edition, Notitia dignitatum: accedunt Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae et Laterculi provinciarum. The digital transcription used as the project's textual basis was prepared by Halstein Sjølie and is available through The Latin Library.
Manuscript imagery
Illustrations and manuscript examples used on this site are drawn from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS. Canon. Misc. 378.
Ancient geography
Ancient-place identification and coordinates use Pleiades as a principal gazetteer. The interactive map is displayed with Leaflet and OpenStreetMap base-map data. Geographic identifications remain an interpretative layer rather than part of the Latin source.
English rendering
The English layer is a reading aid developed for Living Notitia. It is intended to make offices, units and relationships easier to explore; it is not presented as a critical translation and should not replace consultation of the Latin text.