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Dimensuratio provinciarum

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Dimensuratio provinciarum, the "Measure of Provinces", is one of two geographical texts of the Late Roman Empire, the other being Divisio orbis terrarum. They were edited, together with Agrippa's geographical Commentarii by P. Schnabel in 1935. Their image of the world was deeply based on Agrippa's Commentarii, and perhaps on his world map, which inscribed in marble by Augustus and displayed in the Porticus Vipsania at Rome. The Dimensuratio, which was used by Alfred the Great in his geographic treatise, formed a link in the persistence of classical tradition, and even elements of Agrippa's Commentarii, in medieval geographies.

The work was subsequently lost, then rediscovered in the fifteenth century.

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