ITINERARIUM

plural Itineraria, road manual or route map of the ancient Roman Empire. They were constructed according to basic concepts formulated by Greek cartographers such as Agrippa and Ptolemy, and they were frequently used by private and official travellers. The only surviving map is the Peutinger Table, a 13th-century copy of a Roman world map. The 4th-century Antonine Itinerary, one of the few remaining manuals, provides lists of several thousand geographic names of the entire empire, with estimates of the intervening distances. The Ravenna Cosmography, probably of the 7th century, itemizes islands of the Atlantic and places and rivers of Asia, Africa, and Europe.