Dimensuratio provinciarum ("Measuring of Provinces") and Divisio orbis terrarum ("Division of the World") are two
Latingeographical texts of the
late Roman Empire. They were edited, together with
Agrippa's geographical Commentarii, by Paul Schnabel in 1935.[1] Their image of the world was deeply based on Agrippa's Commentarii, and perhaps on his world map, which was inscribed in marble by Augustus and displayed in the
Porticus Vipsania at Rome.[2] The Dimensuratio, which was used by
Alfred the Great in his geographic treatise,[3] formed a link in the persistence of classical tradition, and even elements of Agrippa's Commentarii, in medieval geographies.[4]
The Dimensuratio was subsequently lost, then rediscovered in the fifteenth century.[5]
Notes
^Schnabel, "Die Weltkarte des Agrippa als wissenschaftliches Mittelgleid zwischen Hipparch und Ptolemaeus", Philologus90 (1935:405-40): Agrippa, Commentarii, pp. 405-24; Dimensuratio provinciarum, pp 425-31; Divisio orbis terrarum, pp 432-40. The three works were previously edited by A. Riese, 1878.
^Too recently to have been included in the inclusive list of
Sicco Polenton, a Paduan humanist, completed in 1437, according to Dorothy M. Robathan, "A Fifteenth-Century History of Latin Literature", Speculum7.2 (April 1932:239-248) p. 242.