Mappæ Mundi
The Peutinger Table
The road map of the Roman Empire.
- Map
- Tabula Peutingeriana
- Mapmaker
- After a late-Roman original
- Date
- c. 1200 copy
- Held by
- Austrian National Library, Vienna
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Imagine a subway map of the entire Roman Empire — every road, every rest-stop, every distance — stretched onto a scroll almost seven metres long and barely a foot high. The Peutinger Table is a medieval copy of exactly that: a late-Roman route diagram, deliberately squashed and distorted so that what matters is not shape but connection. Rome sits enthroned at its heart, roads radiating out to Britain, India, and the edge of the world. The ancient world's information design, twelve centuries ahead of its time.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Austrian National Library, Vienna — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag or textured laid stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on stock made to outlive its owner.
