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1. “Glosas herbarum et specierum,” plant synonyms; the 
Bibl. Naples contains what seems to be a copy of this in the Pan- 
tegni MS. of the 13th century, Camus, 132. 
2. ‘ Viaticum,”’ a medical work which he translated out of 
Syriac into Greek and of which two Greek MSS. exist at Vienna 
and one at Florence. His Latin translation of this from the 
Greek bears the name Viaticum, and has been printed. 
3. “ Constantini Africani, Opera conquisita.” Basle, by Hen- 
ticus Petrus, 1536. The title calls the work a selection from 
Hippocrates and Galen, and terms the author ‘Graeca lingua 
doctus sedulus lector.’’ 
4. “ Constantini Africani medici. Operum reliqua hactenus 
desiderata.”” Same printer; 1536, atthe end dated 1539; calls the 
author “the greatest in all philosophy ’’; forms a second volume to 
complete the preceding (no. 3) ; both are massive folios. They con- 
tain a selection from his works ; some of the others are lost, some 
are still in MS.; these printed are pronounced by Meyer to be valu- 
able chiefly as containing only practical medicine. They consist of 
translated extracts from Greek and Arabic works, many of the 
latter without names of their authors.* ‘‘ They constitute,” says 
Meyer, “the first introduction of Arabic medical literature to the 
knowledge of the West : though only of their literature, not their 
Practice ; in the latter he followed Galen.” _ 
Last of his works in the volume of 1536 is one there entitled 
De gradibus quos vocant simplicium ; by Simon Januensis cited as 
Liber graduum ; by Petrus Diaconus called Duodecim graduum. 
It contains over 200 remedies, 168 of which are plants, 10 of 
these from Arabic sources, of which one is Turbith, its first ap- 
pearance in Western literature, Arabic name for Asver Tripolium 
L.; but also used and soon predominantly so, for an oriental drug. 
Among the others are two names, otherwise unknown, of present 
interest as perhaps Compositae : 
Oculeea, mentioned by no other author, a blue-flowered spiny 
Eryngium, named from its flowers like little eyes? or a violet- 
flowered Aster-like composite of the Buphthalmon kind? Con- 
alte, 
ought plagiarist ”? by those 
ae 
So that the translator,’’ says Meyer, ‘‘may be th i 
Simon Januensis 
who did not understand his purpose ;_ which error quickly followed, 
and Petrus de Apone expressing very great contempt for Constantinus. 
