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On the Origin of the Maps attached to Ptolemy's Geography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Lauri O. Th. Tudeer
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The scientific treatment of the Geography of Ptolemy (Γεωγραφικὴὑφήγησις) had made considerable progress during the last century, so that it seemed as if this work had been brought at least to a provisory issue. An edition arranged according to the demands of science and, as was to be desired, an edition that could be called final had not yet been produced, but there was reason to believe that the edition undertaken by the well-known editor C. Mueller in the great Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum, published by Firmin Didot in Paris, would come up to these expectations. However, owing to his death in 1893 it has remained unfinished. After Part I. had appeared in 1883, C. Th. Fischer, to whom the continuation of the work was entrusted, was able in 1901 to publish Part II., which had been found almost ready for the press among the literary remains of the deceased.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 37 , November 1917 , pp. 62 - 76
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1917

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1 Cf. Wagner, H., Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde, 1913, p. 767Google Scholar.

2 One instance: to the north-east of the coast of Egypt the site of ᾿Οστρακίνη and ῾Ρινοκόρουρα is, according to the MSS., ξδ᾿ δ´´ -λάιγ´´ (except Cod. Vatic. 191, λάς ´´) and ξδ´ γο ´´ -λά ιγ´´ but Mueller, relying on the editio princeps and on the actual situation of the localities, demands in both cases the reading λα´ ς ´´ (Ptol. iv. 5, 6). The maps here support the reading of the MSS.

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7 Das älteste kartographische Denkmal über die römische Provinz Dalmatien (Wissensch. Mitth. aus Bosnien und der Hercegovina, vii. 1900), pp. 167–214.

8 Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Plolemäus-Karten (Verh. d. XVIII deutschen Geographentages, 1912, pp. 224–230, and Petermanns Mitt. 58: 2, 1912, pp. 61–63).

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19 i. 18. 3: τό τε γὰρ ἀεὶ μεταφέρειν ἀπὸ τῶν προτέρων παραδειγμάτων ἐπὶ τὰ ὔστερα διἀ τῆς κατὰ μικρὸν παραλλαγῆς εὶς ἀξιόλογον εἴωθων ὲξάγειν ἀνομοιότητα τὰς μεταβολάς

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31 Zeitschr. d. Gesellsch. f. Erdk. 1913, pp. 759–761; Zentr.bl. f. Bibl.wesen, xxx. 1913, pp. 394–397.

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35 Cf. Blass, , Hermes, xxiii. 1888, pp. 219–222Google Scholar, Nr. 27.

36 Abel, E., Literarische-Berichte aus Ungarn, ii. 1878, p. 567Google Scholar; Blass, , Hermes xxiii. 1888, p. 223Google Scholar.

37 Cf. Ptolemaei Geographia, ed. C. Mueller, i. 1, 1883, p. 345; the forms Libarna and Libarnum occur both in Roman inscriptions and authors, but Mueller chooses for his text the form Λίβαρναν occurring in the majority of MSS., though the form Λίβαρνον appears in the excellent Codex Vaticanus gr. 191.

38 Zeitschr. d. Gesellsch. f. Erdk. 1913, pp. 757–758.

39 See p. 65.

40 Verh., d. XVIII. deutscheu Geographentages, 1912, p. xxxvii.

41 Ibid. p. xxxviii.

42 Zeitschr. d. Gesellsch. f. Erdk. 1913, p. 759–761; Zentr.bl. f. Bibl.wesen, xxx. 1913, pp. 392–395.

43 Ptolemaei, Geographia, i. 2 (1901), pp. 1000 and 1011Google Scholar.

44 Also in the Codex Urbinas gr. 83, which belongs to Class B, but is too recent to have any independent importance, Book VIII. is reported to show great lacunas, which must be explained in the same way.

45 Zentr.bl. f. Bibl.wesen, xxx. 1913, p. 393, n. 1.

46 See p. 65.

47 Zentr.bl. f. Bibl.wesen, xxx. 1913, pp. 392–395; Zeitschr. d. Gesellsch. f. Erdk. 1913, pp. 757–760.

48 Zeitschr. d. Gesellsch. f. Erdk. 1914, p. 783.

49 viii. 2, 1.

50 Zentr.bl. f. Bibl.wesen, xxx. 1913, pp. 384–385 and p. 392 n. 1; Zeitsch. d. Gesellsch. f. Erdk. 1913, p. 750.

51 Ptolemy already remarks that for the particular maps the scale can vary according to the importance of the countries (viii. 1).

52 For instance, the maps of Hispania Tarraconensis and of Syria.

53 Cf. Kretschmer, , Petermanns Mitt. 60, 1, 1914, p. 143Google Scholar.

54 Zentr.bl. f. Bibl.wesen, xxx. 1913, p. 391, n. 1.

55 Petermanns Mitt. 60, 2, 1914, p. 287.

56 Ibid.