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itinerary| In ancient Rome, a list of the stopping places, with the distances from one to another, between two places of importance. An itinerary was made either in the form of a book or a kind of travelling map. |
| The Itineraria Antonini, in the form of a book, gives the stations and distances along the imperial highways and dates from the reign of the emperor Diocletian (AD 285–305). The Iter Hierosolymitanum, made by an anonymous pilgrim to Jerusalem AD 333, gives the stations and distances along the road from Bordeaux to Jerusalem and from there to Milan via Valona and Rome. The Tabula Peutingeriana is a good example of an itinerary in the form of a travelling map. The Tabula, a private document, is a copy made in the 12th century AD from the 4th-century map of Castorius. |
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| These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns, indicating the month, the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and actual arrivals at each principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and London--from the 2nd of October to the 21st of December; and giving a space for setting down the gain made or the loss suffered on arrival at each locality. His itinerary was promptly determined: he would go to Dammartin, from which place two roads diverge, one toward Soissons, the other toward Compiegne; there he would inquire concerning the Bracieux estate and go to the right or to the left according to the information obtained. This plan, which he brought to the comte, was a map of France, upon which the practiced eye of that gentleman discovered an itinerary, marked out with small pins; wherever a pin was missing, a hole denoted its having been there. |
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