Description

Original bdg. HC. In publisher's special box. Folio. (51 x 35 cm). In Turkish. 36 p., ills. The Tabula Peutingeriana with its traces in the Ottoman and Turkish geography. Tabula Peutingeriana (= The Peutinger Map), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (an ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire. The map is a 13th-century parchment copy of the Roman original, and covers Europe (without the Iberian Peninsula and the British Isles), North Africa, and parts of Asia (including the Middle East, Persia, and India). The original map which the surviving copy is based on is thought to date to the 4th or 5th century and was itself based on a map prepared by Agrippa during the reign of the emperor Augustus (27 BC-AD 14). Named after the 16th-century German antiquarian Konrad Peutinger, the map is today kept at the Austrian National Library in Vienna (Spurce: Wikipedia).