Abstract :
This article contains full editions with commentaries of the fi rst instalment of the approximately
37 ink writing-tablets from Vindolanda discovered in the excavation seasons of 2001, 2002 and
2003. The editions are numbered continuously from 854, following the sequence in A.K. Bowman
and J.D. Thomas, The Vindolanda Writing-Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses III) (2003), and are
grouped in the following categories: Literary Texts, Military Documents, Accounts, Letters. The
second instalment, to be published in 2011, will contain the remaining Letters and Descripta.