Constantine the African and ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās al-Magūsī : : the Pantegni and related texts / / edited by Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart.

• Superior document: Studies in ancient medicine, v. 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Burnett, Charles; Jacquart, Danielle.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English; French
• Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 364 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: English and French.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī et son milieu /; Constantine the African and Monte Cassino: new elements and the text of the Isagoge /; Les manuscrits du Kāmil aṣ-ṣināʿa à la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris /; The Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew versions of the Kitāb Kāmil aṣ-ṣināʿa /; Le sens donné par Constantin l’Africain à son œuvre: les chapitres introductifs en arabe et en latin /; Constantine’s pseudo-Classical terminology and its survival /; The chapter on the spirits in the Pantegni of Constantine the African /; The re-creation of Pantegni, Practica, book VIII /; ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī and Constantine on love, and the evolution of the Practica Pantegni /; Ibn al-Ǧazzār’s Risāla fīn-nisyān and Constantine’s Liber de oblivione /; Le De elephancia de Constantin l’Africain et ses Rapports avec le Pantegni /; The anatomy of the eye in Alī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī: a textbook case /; The influence of the Pantegni on William of Conches’s Dragmaticon /; The fortune of Constantine’s Pantegni /; Manuscripts of the Kāmil aṣ-ṣināʿa /; A catalogue of Renaissance edittons and manuscripts of the Pantegni /; Index of names, works, places and general medical topics /; Index of Manuscripts /; Studies in Ancient Medicine /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004377352
• ISSN: 0925-1421
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart.

When the tenth-century Kāmil as-sinā‘a (or al-Kitāb al-malakī ) of ‘Alī ibn al-‘Abbās al-Mağūsī was adapted for a Latin-reading audience by Constantine the African in the late eleventh century, the medieval West had, for the first time, the opportunity to use a text which covered the whole of medicine. But the 100-odd extant manuscripts suggest that Contantine's Pantegni was put together over a considerable period of time, and chapters from other Latin and newly-translated Arabic medical works were added to or substituted those of the Kāmil . This book is the first to be devoted to Constantine the African: it sheds light on the School of Salerno and the formation of a medical corpus in the High Middle Ages.