Dubois, Methodus medicamenta componendi, Lyon, 1549, contemporary Parisian tan morocco gilt for Marcus Fugger

DUBOIS, JACQUES. Methodus medicamenta componendi, ex simplicibus, iudicio summo delectis, & arte certa paratis, quatuor libris distributa. Auctore D. Iacobo Sylvio medico. Indice adiecto copiossimo. Lyon: (Philibert Rollet & Barthélemy Frein for) Guillaume Rouillé, 1549

A small format medical text from the library of Marcus Fugger, with his signature. Marcus was buying numerous books from Paris in around 1550, in both simple and elaborate bindings (see Bibliotheca Brookeriana I, 11 October 2023, lots 26, 33 and 86 for different styles of bindings made for him, and several lots in the present sale).

Other small format Lyon imprints were bound similarly for Marcus Fugger, with simple interlacing and flat spines with gilt decoration, including Davis Gift 57 and two volumes of a 1550 Plato (Martin Breslauer Inc., catalogue 110, items 44 and 45), and a 1550 Galen (lot 1099); the latter two volumes also contains blank leaves bound at the end. The bindings have been attributed to Wotton Binder C from the tools used on the spines.

Dubois (1478-1555), anatomist and grammarian, taught anatomy at the university of Paris, though his teaching did not meet with approval from some of his students, most famously Vesalius. This pharmacological text is a handbook of practical medicine along Galenic lines; it is a reprint of the 1548 edition, also by Rollet and Frein.