An elegant and rare map of the Eastern Roman Empire, etched on copper plate by Georgius Widman after a drawing by the French geographer Michel-Antoine Baudrand. Published in Rome in 1669 by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, it features splendid hand-colored outline borders and a majestic Baroque cartouche.

An extraordinary 17th-century map serving as the complementary representation focused on the territories of the Eastern Roman Empire (Oriens). Designed by the French geographer Michel-Antoine Baudrand and engraved in Rome in 1669, the map spans from the Italian peninsula and the Aegean Sea basin to the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, and Egypt, offering a detailed overview of the eastern domains and border provinces of Greco-Roman antiquity.

The dense Latin toponymy accurately records the ancient historical regions: Anatolia (Asia Minor, Pontus, Cappadocia, Cilicia), the Levant (Syria, Phoenicia, Palaestina), Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Arabia (Arabia Petraea, Deserta, Foelix), Egypt (Aegyptus, Thebais), and the shores of the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus).

Author: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (1627 – 1691) / Michel Antoine Baudrand (1633 –  1700)
Year: 1669
Size: 53 x 41 cm circa (plate mark)
Technique: Copperplate etching, hand-coloured