Galenus De compositione pharmacorum localium bookbinding Lyon 1549
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Individual type · partial
Period
1549
GALENUS, CLAUDIUS. De compositione pharmacorum localium, libri decem. Lyon: Philibert Rollet and Barthélemy Frein for Guillaume Rouillé, 1549 A POCKET EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT WORK BY GALEN IN A CHARMING INLAID BINDING FOR MARCUS FUGGER WITH HIS OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION. 134 Nro. 260"), in the Fugger library.
Fugger’s copy of Galen's Methodus medendi (Lyon 1549) bound in olive goatskin with citron onlay was shelved at "Arc. 134 Nro. 249" (Foot, Henry Davis Gift III, no. 57). This copy features 39 additional leaves at the end with alphabetical initials in two columns at the head, probably for an index which was never completed. 16mo (123 x 78 mm). Roman type with italic marginalia, 29 lines plus headline. Collation: πA-B8 a-z8 A-Z8 Aa-Ff8 (z5 missigned z3): 432 leaves (+ 39 blanks at end). Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, manuscript index at end left blank.
(Dampstaining to foot of first few leaves and quire h, some very slight browning.) Binding: Parisian inlaid binding (129 x 82 mm), plausibly by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger, c. 1550, olive brown morocco, gilt and enamelled, black enamelled border flanked by gilt fillets enclosing a panel with an inlay of interlaced strapwork of tan morocco outlined with gilt fillets, interwoven with tendrils ending in empty leaf tools enamelled black, flat spine with horizontal band of cable work enamelled black and outlined in gilt at ends, large central compartment filled with open leafy arabesques, enamelled black, small gilt stars in interstices, edges gilt, in a cloth box.
References: von Gültlingen XI: Rollet & Frein 33; USTC 150207; Adams G-80.
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- Material (listing wording)
- olive brown morocco, gilt and enamelled
- Dimensions or weight (listing wording)
- 123 x 78 mm; 129 x 82 mm
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