The Fasti Parisini: An Independent Consular List from the Fifth Century

The consular list covering the years 379 to 558 CE in the final four folios of the manuscript Parisinus Latinus 4859 in the Bibliothèque Nationale has up to this point been believed to be a copy of the consular list from Victorius of Aquitaine’s Cursus paschalis. This list, however, can be demonstrated to be a consular list independent of all other extant lists from at least 399 to 522. During this period, the list was maintained year by year by successive individuals, at least one of whom possibly resided in southern Gaul. From 523 to 558 the list is related to the list found in one of the continuations of Victorius of Aquitaine’s Cursus paschalis. The fact that the list is contemporary document through much of the fifth century makes it as important a witness to the dissemination of consular names in the western empire as the inscriptional record.