Peutinger Map The World Map of Castorius 1888 Dr Konrad Miller

Description: Weltkarte des Castorius genannt Die Peutinger'sche Tafel in den farben des originales, herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Dr Konrad Miller 1888 The Peutinger Map - The World Map of Castorius Published in 1888 by Dr Konrad Miller this being a copy of the copy from c1365 of an original Roman map of the ancient world from Spain to India. The original that this was taken from is in the Austrian National Library. Verlag von Otto Meier in Ravensburg - printed in Ravensburg by the publisher Otto Maier in 1888 (There is also a mention of a Stuttgart publisher - or maybe printer - at the end of the map) 14ft 6 3/4" long 4439mm (4420mm excl) x 220 mm (not including surrounding edges with annotations - paper measures 31cms high) While this may have originally had an introduction by Dr Konrad Miller, all that is now added to the map is a brief reference from the Encyclopedia Britanica: "Tabula or Itenerarium ScriptumThis map is, with the exception of a plan of Rome of the time of Septimus Severus, the only extant specimen of roman cartography. It is apparently of the third century AD and represents the then known world, showing towns, roads, distances etc. the original chart was copied by a monk at Colmar in 1265, who added a few Scriptural names but otherwise made on alterations. [Measurements given do not correspond to this exemplar] The manuscript was acquired by Conrad Peutinger and is now in the Vienna State Library." This from wikipedia: "The Peutinger Map, part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, is a case sui generis in the history of cartography. This parchment scroll, today stored in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek as Codex Vindobonensis 324, was drawn around 1200 CE as a replica of a late antique original. It is unique in several respects: In the first place, it is the only large-size world map passed down from antiquity. Puzzling, too, are its whimsical dimensions: The eleven surviving segments (the first one/s is/are missing) are together about 6.80 meters long, but have a height of only 33–34 centimeters, so that the ancient world from Spain to India is represented on it with extreme distortions. Here we can grasp the elusive and otherwise very poorly recorded antique tradition of not-to-scale maps. Originating from outside the highly elitist schools of mathematical geography it allows a rare glimpse into the geographical knowledge of a larger non-specialist audience among Rome’s elites. Other prominent, and at the same time tantalizing, features are the road net, drawn in a garish red, and the vignettes of various size and shapes, which mark some of the cities and road stations. Due to its singularity, the Peutinger Map, known by the abbreviation TP, has been the subject of a lively discussion for 250 years, fueled lately by the spatial turn with its attention to forms and concepts of space within their cultural backgrounds. Controversial issues are most notably: date of origin and stages of development, design, purpose, correctness and functionality, mistakes in copying and medieval modifications, relations to other maps and to written geographical sources." Please ask any questions

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