In association with Tom Elliott, assisted by Nora Harris, Gannon Hubbard, David O'Brien, and Graham Shepherd,
with a contribution by Martin Steinmann.
The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Today it is among the treasures of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Richard Talbert's study presented in 'Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered' offers a long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the map as a masterpiece of both mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology. Here, the ancient world's traditional span, from the Atlantic to India, is dramatically remolded; lands and routes take pride of place, whereas seas are compressed. Talbert posits that the map's true purpose was not to assist travelers along Rome's highways, but rather to celebrate the restoration of peace and order by Diocletian's Tetrarchy. Such creative cartography, he shows, influenced the development of medieval mapmaking. With the aid of digital technology, this book enables readers to engage with the Peutinger Map in all of its fascinating immensity more closely than ever before.
Author(s): Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: XVIII+358
List of Plates, Figures, and Table xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xvii
INTRODUCTION 1
Presentation of the Map 8
1 THE SURVIVING COPY: HISTORY, PUBLICATION, SCHOLARSHIP 10
1. Discovery and Bequest to Konrad Peutinger 10
2. Publication (Mid-16th to mid-18th Centuries) 14
(a) Welser (1591) 14
(b) Welser and Moretus (1598) 19
(c) Reuse of the 1598 Plates 23
3. Changes of Ownership, Real (1714–1738) and Threatened 25
4. Publication (Mid-18th Century to the 1870s) 30
(a) von Scheyb 30
(b) Mannert 36
(c) Vodnik 41
(d) Cristianopoulo 46
(e) Katancsich 50
(f) Fortia d’Urban 51
(g) Desjardins 56
5. Publication (1880s to the Present) 62
6. Konrad Miller’s 'Itineraria Romana' (1916) 68
7. Scholarship Since 1916: Overview 71
2 THE SURVIVING COPY: THE MATERIAL OBJECT AND ITS PALEOGRAPHY 73
1. Material, Condition, and Conservation (Coauthored with Martin Steinmann) 73
2. Paleography (by Martin Steinmann) 76
(a) Drawing 76
(b) Scripts 77
(i) Types and Their Functions 77
(ii) Forms 78
(c) Exemplar 80
(d) The Copyist 82
(e) Date and Place of Production 83
(f) Postmedieval Adjustments 84
3 THE DESIGN AND CHARACTER OF THE MAP 86
1. Fundamentals of the Map’s Design 86
(a) Shape and Scope 87
(b) Landscape Base 89
2. Mapmaking Practice 95
(a) Orientation 96
(b) Scale 97
(c) Color 97
(d) Line Work 98
(e) Lettering and Its Placement 100
(f) Numerals 101
3. Components of the Map 102
(a) Coastlines 102
(b) Rivers 103
(c) Open Water (including Lakes) 105
(d) Islands 105
(e) Mountains 106
(f) Peoples and Regions 107
4. Route Network 108
(a) Content and Planning 108
(b) Presentation 112
(c) Pictorial Symbols 117
5. The Integration of Cartography and Art 122
4 RECOVERY OF THE ORIGINAL MAP FROM THE SURVIVING COPY 123
1. Copyists’ Initiatives 124
2. Names and Figures 125
3. Route Line Work 127
4. Copyists’ Flaws in Perspective 131
5 THE ORIGINAL MAP 133
1. Authorship and Date 133
2. Sources 136
3. Context and Purpose 142
CONCLUSION: THE MAP’S PLACE IN CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL CARTOGRAPHY 162
1. The Map in Relation to Classical Cartography 162
2. Lost Copies of the Map 163
(a) Ravenna Cosmography 164
(b) Beatus, 'Commentary on the Apocalypse' 165
(c) A Version Sketched by Prisciani 166
(d) Misidentification in Trier 170
3. Medieval Cartography in Relation to the Map 170
Appendix 1. Latin Text Appended to the 1598 Engraving of the Map 173
Appendix 2. English Translation of J. Kastelic, 'Vodnikova kopija Tabule Peutingeriane' (trans. Gerald Stone) 175
Appendix 3. Reflections on Vodnik’s Copy of von Scheyb’s Engraving 179
Appendix 4. Vodnik’s Latin Summary of Heyrenbach’s Essay (National Library of Slovenia, Ljubljana, MS 1443) 181
Appendix 5. Miller’s Reconstruction of the Map’s Western End 189
Appendix 6. Wyttenbach’s Claim: A Lost Piece of the Map Discovered 193
Appendix 7. User’s Guide to the Database and Commentary 196
Appendix 8. User’s Guide to the Map (A) and Overlaid Layers 201
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 203
Notes 287
Bibliography 333
Index and Gazetteer 347
