Ravenna Cosmography

  • The Ravenna Cosmography is a List of Place Names located across the Roman Empire from Ireland as far as India.
  • It was compiled in Ravenna by a clergyman around 700 CE who appears to have used maps dating from c. 400 CE as the source for his listing.

Editions

  • There are three existing medieval copies that have survived, they are housed in:
    1.  Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (a 13th century document )
    2.  Vatican Library, Rome. (a 14th century document)
    3.  Library of Basle University, Basle. (a 14th century document)

 

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