Reference edition:

P. Schnabel, Die Weltkarte des Agrippa als wissenschaftliches Mittelglied zwischen Hipparch und Ptolemaeus, «Philologus» 90 (1935), 405-440: Divisio orbis Terrarum, 432-439.

­­­The anonymous geographical work is of particular interest because, together with the Demensuratio provinciarum (probably slightly later, see file), it is useful for the reconstruction of Agrippa's Commentarii, which led to the creation of the world map designed by him and, after his death in 12 BC, created by Augustus and placed in the Porticus Vipsania. It comprises 25 chapters and proceeds from West to East: from the Pillars of Hercules to Spain, Europe and then to Asia and India; thence to Africa and then west again to Mauritania. Among the islands, only Britannia is present, while the others are missing. The boundaries and extent of each area are indicated. This route brings it closer to Pliny's Naturalis Historia, which is the only one to mention Agrippa as a source together with Augustus, while differentiates it from the Demensuratio, which proceeds in reverse order, from east to west. The Divisio refers as a source to Augustus (1.1 terrarum orbis … quem divus Augustus primus omnium per chorographiam ostendit) even if he probably drew on it through intermediaries.

The editio princeps was published in 1878 by E. Schweder and was based on a single ms. Vatican (Vat. Pal. 1357 of the XIII century). Mommsen later identified another manuscript in the Swiss monastery of Einsiedeln (Codex 357(694) of the XIII century) and Schnabel found a third at the beginning of the 20th century in the catalog of Vatican manuscripts (Vat. Lat. 642 of the 12th century). The Divisio was probably among the sources used by Isidore of Seville and, in the 9th century, by the Irish monk Dicuil for his De mensura orbis terrae. [R. Tabacco]