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APPENDIX 3 - Reflections on Vodnik's Copy of von Scheyb's Engraving

Richard J. A. Talbert
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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The copy of von Scheyb's engraving of the Peutinger map that Valentin Vodnik and two unnamed pupils drew and colored during the winter of 1809–10 has been part of the National Museum's collection in Ljubljana since the late nineteenth century (see Plate 8). The copy is attached to a wooden roller and kept in a sturdy cylindrical carton. It remains complete but for the final 14–18 cm (5½–7 in.), which have been torn off and lost. The map is drawn on fifteen thin sheets of paper laid side by side with minimal overlap and then backed with linen; adhesion of the paper to the linen has led to some slight creasing. The first two sheets are each 37.5 cm (14¾ in.) tall, the remainder 38 cm (15 in.); each sheet is 46 cm (18 in.) wide. Because von Scheyb's twelve plates are each wider than this, and the eleven parchments wider still, Vodnik marks the breaks between both in pencilled figures at top and bottom; he records likewise von Scheyb's six internal divisions of each plate (letters A–F). Also along the top and bottom margins holes occur at irregular intervals, suggesting either that the map was pinned up for display at some stage, or that by this means tracing paper had been held in place from which line work and lettering were inscribed on the paper of the copy.

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Rome's World
The Peutinger Map Reconsidered
, pp. 179 - 180
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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