Liber pantegni

The Liber pantegni (παντεχνῆ "[encompassing] all [medical] arts") is a medieval medical text compiled by Constantinus Africanus (died before 1098/99) prior to 1086. It was dedicated to Abbot Desiderius of Monte Cassino, before he ascension to the papacy that year. In 2010, the earliest known copy of the Pantegni, made at Monte Cassino under Constantine's supervision, was discovered.
The Pantegni is a compendium of Hellenistic and Islamic medicine, in large parts a translation from the Arabic of the Kitab al-Malaki "Royal Book" of Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi. A distinction is made between theorica and practica, as it has been made before in the so-called Isagoge Johannitii, an earlier medical text that was originally written by Hunayn ibn Ishaq. Each part of al-Majusi's original, Theorica and Practica, had had ten books. In Constantine's version, however, perhaps because of damage when Constantine brought his books from...