Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Consularia Constantinopolitana
Descriptio consulum ex quo primum ordinati sunt
(Descriptio consulum ex quo primum ordinati sunt, List of consuls from the moment they have been first nominated)

Author:

Anonymous (Consularia Constantinopolitana)

Period covered:

509 B.C.-468

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

Genre:

Remarks:

The Consularia Constantinopolitana are the best example of late antique consularia, illustrating their constant updating and their travelling. Burgess (1993) counts at least 8 editions from 342 until 468, with recensions coming from Constantinople, Spain, Africa and Rome.

Edition - Translation:

M. Becker, B. Bleckmann, J. Gross, M.A. Nickbakht (2016) Consularia Constantinopolitana und verwandte Quellen (Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike, G1-4). Paderborn.
R. Burgess (1993) The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana: Two contemporary accounts of the final years of the Roman empire. Oxford.
T. Mommsen (1892) Chronica minora saec. IV.V.VI.VII. Volume One (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Auctores antiquissimi, 9). Berlin: 205-247.

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J. Fontaine, P.L. Schmidt, A. Berger (2020) Handbuch der Lateinischen Literatur der Antike. Sechster Band: Die Literatur im Zeitalter des Theodosius. Erster Teil: Fachprosa, Dichtung, Kunstprosa. Munich: 539-542.