!!!Peutingersche Tafel

Peutingersche Tafel (Tabula Peutingeriana), Roman map handed over for 
publication in 1507 by the Vienna humanist K.  Celtis to the town 
clerk Konrad Peutinger (hence its name) in Augsburg. The Tabula from 
the 11%%sup th/%  or 12%%sup th/%  century is a copy of a road map of 
the Roman Empire and of the eastward trade routes to India and China, 
which was last edited in the first half of the 5%%sup th/%  century 
(Theodosius II, 435?). The preserved map, a scroll of parchment 
6.82 m long and 34 cm wide, was published after the death of 
Peutinger; it was purchased by Prince Eugène in 1720 and 
acquired by the Vienna Imperial Library (National Library) after his 
death. In 1863 the Tabula Peutingeriana was cut into 11 sheets due to 
its damaged exterior. The territory of Austria is drawn on segments 
III and IV. The Tabula Peutingeriana constitutes a unique source of 
the historic geography of transport routes and settlements in Austria, 
with around 3,900 place names.

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Facsimile edition: Tabula Peutingeriana, Codex Vindobonensis 324, ed. 
by E. Weber, 1976.


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