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The Liber pantegni (pa?te??? "[encompassing] all [medical] arts") is a medieval medical text compiled by Constantinus Africanus
Constantine the African

Constantine the African was an eleventh-century Latin translations of the 12th century of Ancient Greek medicine and Medicine in medieval Islam....
 in ca. the 1080s, ascribed to Isaac Israeli ben Solomon
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon

Isaac Israeli Ben Solomon He was born in Egypt before 832; died at Kairouan, Tunisia, in 932. These dates are given by most of the Arabic authorities; but Abraham ben Hasdai, quoting the biographer Sanah ibn Sa'id al-Kurtubi , says that Isaac Israeli died in 942....
 (10th century). It is a compendium of Hellenistic and Islamic medicine
Islamic medicine

In the history of medicine, Islamic medicine or Arabic medicine refers to medicine developed in the Islamic Golden Age and written in Arabic language, the lingua franca of the Islamic civilization....
, in large parts a translation of the kitab al-malaki "royal book" of Ali ibn al-Abbas. A distinction is made between theorica and practica, as it has been made before in the so called Isagoge Johannitii an earlier medical text, which was originally written by Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Hunayn ibn Ishaq

Hunayn ibn Ishaq...
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The Liber pantegni (pa?te??? "[encompassing] all [medical] arts") is a medieval medical text compiled by Constantinus Africanus
Constantine the African

Constantine the African was an eleventh-century Latin translations of the 12th century of Ancient Greek medicine and Medicine in medieval Islam....
 in ca. the 1080s, ascribed to Isaac Israeli ben Solomon
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon

Isaac Israeli Ben Solomon He was born in Egypt before 832; died at Kairouan, Tunisia, in 932. These dates are given by most of the Arabic authorities; but Abraham ben Hasdai, quoting the biographer Sanah ibn Sa'id al-Kurtubi , says that Isaac Israeli died in 942....
 (10th century). It is a compendium of Hellenistic and Islamic medicine
Islamic medicine

In the history of medicine, Islamic medicine or Arabic medicine refers to medicine developed in the Islamic Golden Age and written in Arabic language, the lingua franca of the Islamic civilization....
, in large parts a translation of the kitab al-malaki "royal book" of Ali ibn al-Abbas. A distinction is made between theorica and practica, as it has been made before in the so called Isagoge Johannitii an earlier medical text, which was originally written by Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Hunayn ibn Ishaq

Hunayn ibn Ishaq...
. The "Liber pantegni" was expanded by Johannes Afflatius under the title of liber aureus, and further by Stephen of Antioch (1127) as regalis dispositio.

A shorter and more practical compilation of Constantinus is the Viaticum.

Editions

  • Opera omnia ysaac. Ed. Andreas Turinus. Lugduni 1515; Constantini opera. Apud Henricus Petrus
    Henricus Petrus

    Henricus Petrus or Sebastian Henric Petri are two of the names used for publications from a 16th century Printer of Basel , also called Officina Henricpetrina....
    . Basileae 1536/39.


Literature

  • Constantine the African and Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Magusi: The Pantegni and Related Texts, The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Edited by Burnett and Jacquart, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 10. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994.
  • Moritz Steinschneider: Constantinus Africanus und seine arabischen Quellen. In: Virchows Arch. 37 (1866) 351-416;
  • Charles Singer: A Legend of Salerno. How Constantin the Africain Brought the Art of Medicine to the Christians. In: John Hopkins Bulletin 28 (1917) 64-69;
  • Hermann Lehmann: Die Arbeitsweise des Constantinus Afrikanus und des Johannes Afflacius im Verhältnis zueinander. In: Archeion 12 (1930) 272-281;