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
INTRODUCTION
- 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
Seldom are visitors to the Manuscript Collection of Austria's National Library in Vienna permitted to inspect its set of eleven parchment segments that together form an elongated, squat, and not quite complete map of the Roman world, the so-called Peutinger map. The bold manipulation of landmasses, the detailed plotting of land routes with names in Latin, and the vibrancy of the color on most of the segments are just three among the wealth of impressive features that at once strike the viewer. Here is a major map that in its reshaping of continents recalls the futuristic Atlantropa project devised by Herman Sörgel (1885–1952). Altogether, however, it is a map without close match in any period or culture worldwide. Not least because autopsy is inevitably such a rare privilege, the primary purpose of this book is to render the map more widely accessible and more comprehensible with the support of up-to-date scholarship and technology. At the same time, the opportunity is taken to reconsider the map's design, purpose, history, and significance in the light of current ideas and methods.
The book proceeds on the basis of the long-standing view that the map itself is not an original creation, but a copy at several removes of a lost Roman forerunner. Such copying is the typical means by which texts from antiquity have been preserved. Even so, a vast range of classical authors' works no longer survives.
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- Rome's WorldThe Peutinger Map Reconsidered, pp. 1 - 9Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010