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Article: Constantine the African and Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Magusi: The Pantegni and Related Texts.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- July 1, 1998
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Edited by CHARLES BURNETT and DANIELLE JACQUART. Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 10. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1994. Pp. ix + 364. HF1 172.50, $108.50.
This volume contains fifteen conference papers (four are in French) originally presented at the Warburg Institute in 1990. They severally treat different aspects of the eleventh-century translation of medical texts from Arabic into Latin. The principal Arabic text considered is the medical treatise Kitab Kamil as-Sina a at-Tibbiyya ("The Complete Book of the Medical Art") of cAli ibn al- Abbas al-Majusi ("Haly Abbas" [fl. tenth century]). The first translation of this text into Latin was by Constantine the African ...