Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates, Figures, and Table
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE SURVIVING COPY: HISTORY, PUBLICATION, SCHOLARSHIP
- 2 THE SURVIVING COPY: THE MATERIAL OBJECT AND ITS PALEOGRAPHY
- 3 THE DESIGN AND CHARACTER OF THE MAP
- 4 RECOVERY OF THE ORIGINAL MAP FROM THE SURVIVING COPY
- 5 THE ORIGINAL MAP
- CONCLUSION: THE MAP'S PLACE IN CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL CARTOGRAPHY
- APPENDIX 1 Latin Text Appended to the 1598 Engraving of the Map
- APPENDIX 2 English Translation of J. Kastelic, “Vodnikova kopija Tabule Peutingeriane” (trans. Gerald Stone)
- APPENDIX 3 Reflections on Vodnik's Copy of von Scheyb's Engraving
- APPENDIX 4 Vodnik's Latin Summary of Heyrenbach's Essay (National Library of Slovenia, Ljubljana, MS 1443)
- APPENDIX 5 Miller's Reconstruction of the Map's Western End
- APPENDIX 6 Wyttenbach's Claim: A Lost Piece of the Map Discovered
- APPENDIX 7 User's Guide to the Database and Commentary
- APPENDIX 8 User's Guide to the Map (A) and Overlaid Layers
- APPENDIX 9 User's Guide to the Outlining of Rivers and Routes on Barrington Atlas Bases (C–F), with Associated Texts: (a) Antonine Itinerary (ItAnt) Text with Journeys Numbered as on Map E, and (b) Bordeaux Itinerary (ItBurd) Text with Journeys Lettered as on Map F
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index and Gazetteer
APPENDIX 5 - Miller's Reconstruction of the Map's Western End
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates, Figures, and Table
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE SURVIVING COPY: HISTORY, PUBLICATION, SCHOLARSHIP
- 2 THE SURVIVING COPY: THE MATERIAL OBJECT AND ITS PALEOGRAPHY
- 3 THE DESIGN AND CHARACTER OF THE MAP
- 4 RECOVERY OF THE ORIGINAL MAP FROM THE SURVIVING COPY
- 5 THE ORIGINAL MAP
- CONCLUSION: THE MAP'S PLACE IN CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL CARTOGRAPHY
- APPENDIX 1 Latin Text Appended to the 1598 Engraving of the Map
- APPENDIX 2 English Translation of J. Kastelic, “Vodnikova kopija Tabule Peutingeriane” (trans. Gerald Stone)
- APPENDIX 3 Reflections on Vodnik's Copy of von Scheyb's Engraving
- APPENDIX 4 Vodnik's Latin Summary of Heyrenbach's Essay (National Library of Slovenia, Ljubljana, MS 1443)
- APPENDIX 5 Miller's Reconstruction of the Map's Western End
- APPENDIX 6 Wyttenbach's Claim: A Lost Piece of the Map Discovered
- APPENDIX 7 User's Guide to the Database and Commentary
- APPENDIX 8 User's Guide to the Map (A) and Overlaid Layers
- APPENDIX 9 User's Guide to the Outlining of Rivers and Routes on Barrington Atlas Bases (C–F), with Associated Texts: (a) Antonine Itinerary (ItAnt) Text with Journeys Numbered as on Map E, and (b) Bordeaux Itinerary (ItBurd) Text with Journeys Lettered as on Map F
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index and Gazetteer
Summary
In 1887 Konrad Miller published his book Die Weltkarte des Castorius genannt die Peutingersche Tafel, following it the next year with a lithograph of the map Die Peutingersche Tafel, a single piece in color at approximately twothirds of the original map's size. Miller next devoted his efforts to medieval mappaemundi, issuing facsimiles (with transcriptions and comments) that appeared in five fascicles during 1895 and 1896. A sixth and final fascicle followed in 1898, in which he boldly reconstructed Roman maps or worldviews of the first to seventh centuries A.D. Among these is what he terms “Das 1. Segment der Tabula Peutingeriana (Castori),” the lost western end of the Peutinger map (Plate 16 above). The dimensions (40 cm wide × 22 [15¾ × 8¾ in.]) of this reconstruction were intended to match the format of Die Peutingersche Tafel, although – for whatever reason – its color palette (blue, light-brown, black) did not.
Miller undertook the reconstruction with his customary energy and self-confidence, believing that it presented “keine grossen Schwierigkeiten” (“no great difficulties”). In some respects his optimistic assessment was justified. For the principal regions missing – Britain, North Africa, Spain – ample data were readily available from such varied sources as the Antonine Itinerary, the Ravenna Cosmographer, and Roman milestones, and he exploited all these with skill. This aspect of his reconstruction is set aside here. Rather, the focus is upon his flawed regard for the map's design and presentation.
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- Rome's WorldThe Peutinger Map Reconsidered, pp. 189 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010