The Tabula Peutingeriana (Peutinger table) is an itinerarium showing the cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire. The original map dates from the 4th century. It covers Europe, parts of Asia (India) and North-Africa. The map is named after Konrad Peutinger, a German 15-16th century humanist and antiquarian. An itinerarium (plural: itineraria) was an Ancient Roman road map. ... Cursus publicus was the courier service of the Roman Empire. ... The Roman Empire is the name given to both the imperial domain developed by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ... World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa. ... Konrad Peutinger (1465 - 1547), German humanist and antiquarian, was born at Augsburg. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...

The map was discovered in a library in Worms by Conrad Celtes, who was unable to publish his find before his death, and bequeathed the map in 1508 to Peutinger. It is conserved at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Hofburg, Vienna.^[1] // Worms (pronounced ) is a city in the southwest of Germany. ... Conrad Celtes (February 1, 1459 - February 4, 1508) was a German Humanist scholar. ... Austrian National Library with 7. ... Hofburg Neue Burg section, seen from Heldenplatz. ...

Map description

Tabula Peutingeriana (section) - top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast

The Tabula Peutingeriana is the sole surviving copy of the Roman cursus publicus; it was made by a monk in Colmar in the thirteenth century. It is a parchment scroll, 0.34 m high and 6.75 m long, assembled from eleven sections, a medieval reproduction of the original scroll. It is a very schematic map: the land masses are distorted, especially in the east-west direction. The map shows many Roman settlements, the roads connecting them, rivers, mountains, forests and seas. The distances between the settlements are also given. The most important cities of the Roman Empire, Rome, Constantinople and Antioch, are represented with a special iconic decoration. Besides the totality of the Empire, the map shows the Near East, India and the Ganges, Sri Lanka (Insula Trapobane), even an indication of China. In the west, the absence of the Iberian Peninsula indicates that a twelfth original section has been lost in the surviving copy. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (746x970, 257 KB) Part of Tabula Peutingeriana konrad miller´s facsimile from 1887 Image with permissions from this source: Bibliotheca Augustana (The original-map is possible with copyrights by the museum in Vienna!) File links The following pages link to this... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (746x970, 257 KB) Part of Tabula Peutingeriana konrad miller´s facsimile from 1887 Image with permissions from this source: Bibliotheca Augustana (The original-map is possible with copyrights by the museum in Vienna!) File links The following pages link to this... Location within France coat of arms of Colmar Colmar is a town and commune in the Haut-Rhin département of Alsace, France. ... A scroll is a roll of parchment, papyrus, or paper which has been written upon. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1,285 km²  (496. ... Map of Constantinople. ... Antioch on the Orontes (Greek: Αντιόχεια η επί Δάφνη, Αντιόχεια η επί Ορόντου or Αντιόχεια η Μεγάλη; Latin: Antiochia ad Orontem, also Antiochia dei Siri), the Great Antioch or Syrian Antioch was an ancient city located on the eastern side (left bank) of the Orontes River about 30 km from the sea and its port, Seleucia Pieria. ... The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe. ...

The Peutinger Table does not satisfy modern conceptions of a map: longitude, which can only be calculated with an accurate clock, is highly compressed in comparison with latitude. The table appears to be based on "itineraries", or lists of destinations along Roman roads, as the distances between points along the routes are indicated.^[2] Travellers would not have possessed anything so sophisticated as a map, but they needed to know what lay ahead of them on the road, and how far. The Peutinger table represents these roads as a series of roughly parallel lines along which destinations have been marked in order of travel. The shape of the parchment pages accounts for the rectangular layout. However, a rough similarity to the coordinates of Ptolemy's earth-mapping gives some writers a hope that some terrestrial representation was intended by the unknown compilers. Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... A medieval artists rendition of Claudius Ptolemaeus Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: ; c. ...

The fourth century tabula^[3] was the distant descendant of the one prepared under the direction of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, a friend of Augustus. After Agrippa's death the map was engraved on marble and placed in the Porticus Vipsaniae, not far from the Ara Pacis. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63 BC–12 BC) was a Roman statesman and general. ... The Ara Pacis Augustae The Ara Pacis Augustae (Latin for Altar of Augustan Peace, and commonly shortened to Ara Pacis) is an altar to Peace, envisioned as a Roman goddess. ...

Publication

A partial first edition was printed at Antwerp in 1591 (Fragmenta tabulæ antiquæ) by Johannes Moretus. The full Tabula was printed in December 1598, also at Antwerp, by Jean Moret. The Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal (Cathedral of our Lady) at the Handschoenmarkt, in the old quarter of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and home to several triptychs by Baroque painter Rubens. ... Jan Moretus(1543-1610), married the second daughter of the famous Antwerp publisher Christoffel Plantijn in 1570. ...

The original was acquired by Prince Eugene of Savoy and found its way into the Habsburg Imperial Court Library (Hofbibliothek) in Vienna, where it remains. Prince Eugen von Savoyen in a contemporary painting François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan, known as Prinz Eugen von Savoyen in German (October 16, 1663 – April 24, 1736) was a noted general. ... Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy; also used as the flag of the Austrian Empire until the Ausgleich of 1867. ...

Notes

1. ^ Its accession number is Codex 324.
2. ^ Not all the stages are between towns: sometimes a crossroads marks the staging point.
3. ^ It shows the city of Constantinople, founded in 328, yet it still shows Pompeii, not rebuilt after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79. Certain cities of Germania Inferior that were destroyed in the mid-fifth century provide a terminus ante quem.

Map of Constantinople. ... A computer-generated depiction of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 which buried Pompeii, from the BBCs Pompeii: The Last Day. ... Mount Vesuvius (Italian: Monte Vesuvio) is a volcano east of Naples, Italy, located at 40°49′N 14°26′ E. It is the only active volcano on the European mainland, although it is not currently erupting. ... The Roman province of Germania Inferior, 120 AD Germania Inferior (in English: Lower Germany) was a Roman province located on the left bank of the Rhine, in todays southern Netherlands and western Germany. ... Terminus ante quem, (Limit before which), Latest date at which a text may have been written. ...

External links

• Roman Sites: complete scan of Tabula Peutingeriana 13th century
• Bibliotheca Augustana: complete scan of Tabula Peutingeriana 1887-1888
• Peutinger Map article by Lendering