English and French.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material / Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart -- ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī et son milieu / Françoise Micheau -- Constantine the African and Monte Cassino: new elements and the text of the Isagoge / Francis Newton -- Les manuscrits du Kāmil aṣ-ṣināʿa à la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris / Gèrard Troupeau -- The Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew versions of the Kitāb Kāmil aṣ-ṣināʿa / Ron Barkai -- Le sens donné par Constantin l’Africain à son œuvre: les chapitres introductifs en arabe et en latin / Danielle Jacquart -- Constantine’s pseudo-Classical terminology and its survival / Gotthard Strohmaier -- The chapter on the spirits in the Pantegni of Constantine the African / Charles Burnett -- The re-creation of Pantegni, Practica, book VIII / Monica Green -- ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī and Constantine on love, and the evolution of the Practica Pantegni / Mary Wack -- Ibn al-Ǧazzār’s Risāla fīn-nisyān and Constantine’s Liber de oblivione / Gerrit Bos -- Le De elephancia de Constantin l’Africain et ses Rapports avec le Pantegni / Enrique Montero Cartelle and Ana Isabel Martín Ferreira -- The anatomy of the eye in Alī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī: a textbook case / Güi Russell -- The influence of the Pantegni on William of Conches’s Dragmaticon / Italo Ronca -- The fortune of Constantine’s Pantegni / Mark Jordan -- Manuscripts of the Kāmil aṣ-ṣināʿa / Gérard Troupeau -- A catalogue of Renaissance edittons and manuscripts of the Pantegni / Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart -- Index of names, works, places and general medical topics / Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart -- Index of Manuscripts / Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart -- Studies in Ancient Medicine / Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart.

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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.