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.