[OSM-talk] Twelfth-century copy of Roman map displayed

[Laurence Penney]

Beej Jorgensen wrote:
> 'An 800-year-old map, the sole surviving copy of a chart used by the 
> Roman Empire's courier service, was put on show for just one day on 
> Monday after being accorded "Memory of the World" status by UNESCO.'
> 
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071126/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_austria_map_1;_ylt=ArcErqHtBhgcWGuGHza829_mWMcF
> 
> end_date=1250-01-01 :)
> 
> I need a copy of this thing for my wall.

The University of Augsburg has some good data on this map, the 
Peutinger Table/Tabula Peutingeriana/Peutinger Tafel (depending 
whether you think it's best named in English, Latin or German), and 
even some scans:

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost03/Tabula/tab_intr.html

(Isn't it nice to see a website in Latin?)

The c.1200 version is the one in the Yahoo news piece. It's a copy of 
something that had been in circulation for hundreds of years already.

The 1598 "Marci Velseri" version is a printed version by Ortelius, the 
famous c16 cartographer, basing it on the c.1200 version above held by 
Conrad Peutinger, whose mate had discovered it in Worms library.

The 1887 version is supposedly a "facsimile edition", by Konrad 
Miller, though its bright aesthetic seems nothing like the original. 
However processing with tea stains and acid might just make a passable 
  800-year-old map. Scans of this entire facsimile are downloadable, 
and would probably be ok for printing at a small size. The same scan 
seems to have been turned into a single large image on Wikipedia (link 
from the en and de pages below).

If your German (or Latin) is up to it, how about asking Augsburg Uni 
if they have a higher res version for you to print from?

More info:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Peutingeriana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Peutingeriana

-- L