Itinerarium

An Itinerary ( n, itinerarium from Latin, pl. Itineraria or new itineraries also derived from Latin iter "way" ) is generally the summary of roads and streets. However, both names are also road and station numbers, hotel information, transportation, tickets - well, basically all belonging to a travel information - for travelers, hikers, merchants or pilgrims. Also, travelogues and of protocol compilations of travel known and important people are called so.

From ancient times, are obtained:

• The Antonine Itinerary with the itinerary Provinciarum, a number of routes through the Roman provinces of Europe, Asia and Africa ( from the 3rd century ),
• The itinerary Burdigalense (or Hierosolymitanum ), 333 written by a Christian for the route from Bordeaux to Jerusalem,
• The Itinerarium Alexandri, a written around 340 AD brief description of the route of the Alexanderzugs to Persia,
• The itinerary Egeriae, drafted by a Christian pilgrim Egeria travelogue, as it 381-384 toured the Holy Land,
• The itinerary Gaditanum, a list of the sections of Cádiz to Rome
• The Tabula Peutingeriana, a Roman road map from the 4th century.

From the time of the Reformation, an extensive itinerary from the pen of the Augsburg preacher Wolfgang Musculus (1497-1563) is obtained, which documents the route from Augsburg to Wittenberg.

In the technical language of the science of history is meant by Itinerar the " Itinerary " of rulers (or their scientific documentation on the basis of the exhibition dates and locations of documents and information in the historiography ). Particularly useful is the reconstruction of stays and pathways in the early and high medieval rulers, as they still exercised no residency rule in the rule, rather than travel to the next kings of the Palatinate were traveling ( Königsitinerar ). The result, displayed as a map is helpful for the historical work; spurious documents can now also be recognized that the exhibition out of a completely different itinerary. It also shows which regions and towns for the ruler and his reign practice were important.

In the Spiritual literature itinerary can also mean an expulsion that will lead to right living, right through to perfection. The best known example is Bonaventure's Itinerarium mentis in Deum ( 1259 ).

Occasionally, a travel altar is called the itinerary.