Plautus in der Frühen Neuzeit

Plauti comoediae viginti, ex emendationibus atque commentariis Bernardi Saraceni, Ioannis Petri Vallae, Venetiis, per Lazarum Soardum, 1511.

M. Plauti sarssinatis (!) comedie viginti varroniane, ed. Simon Charpentarius, s. l., 1513.

Plauti comoediae viginti nuper recognitae et acri iudicio Nicolai Angelii diligentissime excussae, Florentiae, ex officina Philippi de Giunta, 1514.

Ex Plauti comoediis viginti, Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri, 1522.

M. Plauti comoediae viginti, Basileae, apud Andream Cratandrum, 1523.

M. Accii Plauti comoediae duae Menaechmei et Mostellaria, a mendis purgatae ac numeris suis, quoad eius fieri potuit restitutae [a Ioachimo Camerario], Norimbergae excudente Friderico Peypesio, 1530.

M. Accii Plauti Sarsinatis comici festivissimi comoediae viginti diligentiss. a mendis repurgatae, & in mensum suum genuinum, quod Menaechmei Mostellaria & Trinummus docent, restitutae, Basileae, ex officina Ioannis Hervagii, 1535.

M. Accii Plauti comoediae sex, Capteiuei Aulularia Miles Menaechmei Mostellaria Trinummus, Magdeburgi, per Michaelem Lotterum, 1536.

M. Accii Plauti comoediae quinque, a mendis purgatae, ac numeris suis, quo ad eius fieri potuit, restitutae, quibus addidimus Trinummum: Capteiuei Aulularia Miles Menaechmei Mostellaria Trinummus, Magdeburgi, excudebat Christianus Rodingerus, 1542.

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A New Salt Road to the Modern World

Michael Fontaine (Ithaca)

Camerarius d.Ä., JoachimEt mihi Erasmiaco liceat re ludere more;

seria materia est, Musa iocosa levet.

In 2017 I discovered two letters that shed new light on the transmission of Plautus’ comedies from antiquity to the Early Modern period. One concerns (probably) the “Decurtatus” manuscript and the other concerns the 1552 Basel edition that Joachim CamerariusCamerarius d.Ä., Joachim the Elder based on it.1 To keep the exposition moving, I’ve chosen a fun title inspired by ErasmusErasmus von Rotterdam’Erasmus von Rotterdam Praise of Folly Erasmus von RotterdamLaus stultitiae (1509), which he dedicated to Thomas More:

I decided to write a fun essay in praise of folly. “What stroke of genius put that in your head?” you’ll say. Mainly it was your last name, More, which comes as close to the word moria (folly) as you are far from the thing.2

Like ErasmusErasmus von Rotterdam, I hope a little fun will lighten up the serious points I have to make. Consider this proposition:

Quisquis habet Plauti libros cimelia3, peccat:

qui vehit usque sales, iure camelus erit.

It’s natural to think of manuscripts of Plautus’ comedies as cimelia, heirlooms or rare books. But as vectors of sales – salt or jokes – we could also think of them as camels. Analogously, we can think of the scholars who deliver their cargo to us like the traders who have, from time immemorial, traversed the Sahara Desert on camelback to bring slabs of salt from mines to markets. And of all such camelarii , camel drivers, none enjoys greater glory than Joachim CamerariusCamerarius d.Ä., Joachim (1500–1574). As the following argumentum summarizes, I intend to remap the “salt road” he traveled in bringing Plautus’ comedies from antiquity to his own times:

Carvanâ superat Libyae solitudines

Arabs camelorum, insulsis ut portet salem:

Modo qVo caballIs, asInIs DICVntVr ManV4

Exscripti in Latium allati super Alpes libri,

Leone5 duce: is Palatino tractas Lari

Asportat6 spolia, Plauti membranas duas

Relegatque Romam. Dignius CamerariusCamerarius d.Ä., Joachim?