Geographer of Ravenna
The geographer of Ravenna was an anonymous author of an early medieval geographical work. According to recent research, it was created around 700.
The work came from Ravenna , the residence of the Western Roman emperor in the 5th century and a Byzantine exarchate from the 6th to the 8th centuries . The work with the title Cosmographia was originally written in Greek and has been preserved in a Latin translation made in the 9th century .
This description of the world known in antiquity mainly offers a number of names referring to cities , islands and rivers . The information is probably taken almost exclusively from a large itinerary map that is closely related to the Peutinger table . The Cosmographia was published in 1860 by Moritz Pinder and Gustav Parthey , the standard edition by Joseph Schnetz (1929).
expenditure
- Moritz Eduard Pinder, Gustav Parthey: Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia et Guidonis Geographica . Berlin 1860 (reprinted Aalen 1962) full text .
- Joseph Schnetz: Itineraria Romana. Vol. II: Ravennatis Anonymi cosmographia et Guidonos geographica . Teubner, Leipzig 1929 (reprint KG Saur 1990, ISBN 978-3-598-74274-3 )
literature
- Joseph Schnetz: Research on the sources of the cosmography of the anonymous geographer of Ravenna . University printing house of Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 1919.
- Brigitte English: Ordo orbis terrae. The worldview in the Mappae mundi of the early and high Middle Ages. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003635-4 , pp. 162–167.
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| SURNAME | Geographer of Ravenna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Author of an early medieval geographical work |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th century or 8th century |