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Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Africae is an Byzantine era document. It is a list of the bishops and their sees in the Latin provinces of North Africa.〔( Victor of Vita )〕 The cause of its preparation was the summoning of the episcopate to Carthage, 1 February, 484, by the Arian King of the Vandals, Huneric (477-84). Arranged according to provinces in this order: Proconsularis, Numidia, Byzacena, Mauretania Caesariensis, Mauretania Sitifensis, Tripolitana, Sardinia. It names also the exiled bishops and vacant sees, and is an important authority for the history of the African Church and the geography of these provinces. It is incorporated in the only extant manuscript to the history of the Vandal persecution by Bishop Victor Vitensis.〔( Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Africae. )〕〔( Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Africae ).〕〔''Johan Leemans'', Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity (Walter de Gruyter, 2011)( p485 ).〕〔J. D. Fage, Roland Anthony Oliver, (Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 2 ).〕 ==Description== The ''Notitia provinciarum and civitatum Africae'' is the conventional title long, in Latin but it is also known as the Notitia or ''Notitia Africae'' which is in turn, abbreviated in NA.〔Klaus-Peter Johne, in dans Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider et Manfred Landfester (dir.), (Brill’s , trad. de l'allemand par Christine F. Salazar et Francis G. Gentry, at brillonline.com)〕 it is a record of the Bishops of North Africa〔( Notitia Africae ).〕 and represents a register of the provinces and cities of Africa, and the Organization of the Catholic Church in North Africa at the end of the 5th century, an important time in the development of Catholic Dogma. It also by inferences describes the extent of the Vandal kingdom at that time. The Notitia lists the Catholic Bishops (nomina episcorum catholicorum) who participated in the conference held at Carthage, February 1 484,〔La Notitia comporte une erreur sur la date de la conférence, qui eut lieu le jour des calendes de février (1er février) de la huitième année du règne de Hunéric (484), et non dans la sixième année de son règne (482).〕 convened by Huneric. It summarizes the total number of bishops, in North Africa, the number of those who died in the Vandal Persecution, those who remained alive and, among these those who were relegated (exciled), and those who fled (fugerunt). It lists four hundred and eighty-three dioceses in seven provinces, five of which follow the secular Roman Provinces. The order of the provinces seems to follow the chronological order of the creation of the primaties. *The first list is the Proconsulaire residual - or Zeugitane - which includes the diocese of Carthage whose Bishop is the Primate of Africa. *The second list is that of Numidia which the first Primate, Secundus of Tigisi, is attested in 305. *The third list is that of the Byzacena which enjoys a Primate since the middle of the 4th century. *The fourth list is Mauretania Caesariensis section including the primatial seat which might go back to the 4th century and the acts of the Council of Carthage 407. *The fifth is a list of Mauretania Sitifensis, which was agreed to at the general Council of Africa held at hippo, October 8 393. *The sixth list is that of Tripolitania which does not seem to have had a primate. *Sardinia is not presented as a province but as an island. The list also contains the names of the Bishops of Majorca and Minorca, in the Balearic Islands. The author of the Notitia is unknown. It having long been attributed, wrongly, to Victor of Vita,〔Victor (Vitensis), Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Africae (Centre Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium, Brepols (Firm), Brepols Publishers, 2010 )〕 and its author is designated, by convention, as the Vita Pseudo-Victor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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