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See also:ITINERARIUM (i.e. road-See also:book, from See also:Lat. iter, road)
, a See also:term applied to the extant descriptions of the See also:ancient See also:Roman roads and routes of See also:traffic, with the stations and distances
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It is usual to distinguish two classes of these, Itineraria adnotata or scripta and Itineraria See also:pitta—the former having the See also:character of a See also:book, and the latter being a See also:kind of travelling See also:map
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Of the Itineraria Scripta the most important are: (I) It
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Antonini (see ANTONINI See also:ITINERARIUM), which consists of two parts, the
one dealing with roads in See also:Europe, See also:Asia and See also:Africa, and the other with See also:familiar See also:sea-routes—the distances usually being measured from See also:Rome; (2) It
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Hierosolymitanum or Burdigalense, which belongs to the 4th See also:century, and contains the route of a See also:pilgrimage from See also:Bordeaux to See also:Jerusalem and from See also:Heraclea by Rome to See also:Milan (ed
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G
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Parthey and M
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Pinder, 1848, with the Itinerarium Antonini); (3) It
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Alexandri, containing a See also:sketch of the See also: A collected edition of the 'ancient itineraria, with ten maps, was issued by Fortia d'See also:Urban, Recueil See also:des itineraires anciens (1845) . Of the Itineraria Picta only one great example has been preserved . This is the famous Tabula Peutingeriana, which, without attending to the shape or relative position of the countries, represents by straight lines and dots of various sizes the roads and towns of the whole Roman See also:world (facsimile published by K . See also:Miller, 1888; see also MAP) . |
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