[German version]

This work, which was written in Latin in late antiquity and is preserved together with the  Notitia Dignitatum, consists of a praefatio and 21 chapters. In chapters 6-19 the Anonymus de rebus bellicis (AdRB) presented novel war equipment, which was already illustrated in the original text and not merely the preserved manuscripts (6,5). Of particular historical interest are chapters 1-5 and 20-21, in which the AdRB, who was perhaps a high-ranking civilian official [1.8 ff.], suggested financial, admini…