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 6 - Wyttenbach's Claim: A Lost Piece of the Map Discovered
- 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
The sole testimony to the claim that Johann Hugo Wyttenbach (1767–1848) had discovered a lost piece of the map is a notice published in the Trier'sche Zeitung on March 24, 1835:
Herr Gymnasial-Direktor und Professor Wyttenbach hat abermals eine für die ältere Geschichte und Bibliographie höchst wichtige Entdeckung gemacht. Man weiss, das von der sogennanten Peutinger'schen Charte, welche die Militärstrassen durch das Weströmische Reich unter Theodosius dem Grossen bezeichnet, nur eilf Blätter bis jetzt bekannt waren. Es fehlte von den ganzen, aus zwölf Blättern bestandenen, römisch-kaiserlichen Reise-Charte das zwölfte Blatt, welches aber in der Reihe das erste ist. Auf diesem begann die Charte mit Britanien, Hispanien und Mauritanien. Von diesem bishieher unbekannten Blatte ist ein Theil, nämlich Spanien, vom Hrn. Direktor Wyttenbach glücklich entdeckt worden. Das Pergamentblatt war als Schmutzblatt einer Incunabel auf der hiesigen Stadtbibliothek angeklebt. Das Nähere darüber wird später bemerkt werden können.
Früher schon, im Jahr 1803, hatte Hr. Direktor Wyttenbach durch Auffindung der zwei letzten Blätter des 35zeiligen, von Peter Schöffer zu Mainz gedruckten Donat, eine für die Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst eben so wichtige als interessante Entdeckung gemacht. (s. darüber Geschichte der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst von Dr. Schaab, Mainz 1830).
Gymnasium Principal and Professor Wyttenbach has once again made an extremely important discovery for ancient history and bibliography. It is common knowledge that up to the present only eleven sheets were known of the so-called Peutinger's map, which shows the military roads throughout the Roman Empire of the West under Theodosius the Great. […]
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- Rome's WorldThe Peutinger Map Reconsidered, pp. 193 - 195Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010