Notitia Dignitatum - Dux Palestinae, 1436

Dux palaestinae (palestine) from notitia dignitatum, a parchment manuscript, showing the jordan river the bodleian library describes as follows: "the manuscript is modelled after the carolingian copy (the lost carolingian "codex spirensis") of a late antique manuscript. This manuscript is the earliest copy of this text to survive complete, made at basel in 1436 by an italian scribe and a french illuminator (peronet lamy) for petrus donatus, bishop of padua. ". Date: 1436.